Cincy 1962 Holds Off UNLV 73-71 to face Kentucky 2 hours to the South in Final 4

Pos	UNLV 1991 (Dunk 51-54)	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Height	Actual Season
1-PG	Greg Anthony	2	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	nba,6'1	11.6 Pts, 2.5 Reb, 8.9 Ast
2-SG	Stacey Augmon	13	1	5	0	0	3	4	2	2	nba,6'6	16.5 Pts, 7.3 Reb, 3.6 Ast
3-SF	Anderson Hunt	10	2	2	0	0	4	0	0	1	6'1	17.2 Pts, 1.6 Reb, 2.9 Ast
4-PF	Elmore Spencer	4	0	1	2	2	2	0	1	3	nba,7'1	6.4 Pts, 4.0 Reb, 1.2 Ast
5-C	Larry Johnson	24	0	9	6	6	9	1	0	3	nba,6'6	22.7 Pts, 10.9 Reb, 3.0 Ast
1-PG	Evric Gray	7	0	3	1	5	1	0	1	2	nba,6'7	6.8 Pts, 3.7 Reb, 1.4 Ast
2-SG	Travis Bice	7	1	1	2	2	3	0	0	2	6'5	4.7 Pts, 0.6 Reb, 0.7 Ast
3-SF	George Ackles	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'9	8.2 Pts, 5.7 Reb, 0.8 Ast
4-PF	Bobby Joyce	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	6'7	2.3 Pts, 1.9 Reb, 0.3 Ast
		0
	Turnovers 16	71	4	24	11	15	28	5	4	17
Pos	Cincinnati 1962 (51-63)	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Height	Summary
1-PG	Tony Yates	5	0	2	1	1	2	2	0	1	6'1	8.2 Pts, 3.0 Reb, 4.3 Ast
2-SG	Tom Thacker	20	1	7	3	4	2	6	0	1	nba,6'2	11.0 Pts, 8.6 Reb, 3.4 Ast
3-SF	Ron Bonham	13	1	5	0	0	6	1	0	2	nba,6'5	14.3 Pts, 5.0 Reb, 1.1 Ast
4-PF	George Wilson	3	0	1	1	4	7	1	0	2	nba,6'8	9.2 Pts, 8.0 Reb, 1.1 Ast
5-C	Paul Hogue	18	0	8	2	2	13	0	6	5	nba,6'9	16.8 Pts, 12.4 Reb, 0.6 Ast
1-PG	Tom Sizer	4	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	3	6'2	2.7 Pts, 1.3 Reb, 1.2 Ast
2-SG	Larry Shingleton	6	1	1	1	2	2	0	0	1	5'10	3.9 Pts, 1.4 Reb, 0.8 Ast
3-SF	Fred Dierking	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'6	4.1 Pts, 2.9 Reb, 0.6 Ast
4-PF	Dale Heidotting	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'8	3.1 Pts, 2.3 Reb, 0.4 Ast
		0
	Turnovers 14	73	3	28	8	13	36	11	6	17

While Anthony Davis lead Kentucky 2012 to an easy Elite 8 win, their Final 5 opponent two hours to the north had to go to the wire to make the game. That game pitted two great centers with the threat that if either fouled out guarding each other it would give the other team a great chance. (see Value Add Basketball Game)

UNLV's 1991 center Larry Johnson, whose powerful game resulted in 22.7 point per game and a game-high 24 points in this game, did finally draw a 5th foul on Cincinnati 1962 Center Paul Hogue (16.8 pts and 12.4 average and 18,13 in this game) but it was not until less than a minute to play. Johnson hit both free throws to finish 6-6 from the line to cut it to 72-69, but Tom Thacker hit the first of two free throws to wrap up the win, and Stacey Augmon's bucket at the buzzer still left Cincinnati with the 73-71 win.

While this Final 4 Game will feature two teams just two hours from each other (the Cincinnati airport is actually in the state of Kentucky), while the other Final 4 game will be between teams in the same arena, as UCLA teams from1964 and 1975 face off.

Boeheim Leads Fast Pace Syracuse in Upset Bid vs. Cincinnati

 Jim Boeheim ran a disciplined 2-3 zone to take Syracuse to championships, but as a player with all time great Dave Bing the 1966 Syracuse team road a "defense optional" style to average 99 points per game to take the Orange Men to their first Final 8 in nine years.

Even No. 2 Vanderbilt could not slow them down during the season, though Vandy did survive a 113-98.

This is the 2nd of 4 games pitting a team added to the game because they were part of the 10 greatest dynasties ever (Cincinnati, the 1-seed) vs. four teams added because one of their players has broken into the NBA top 75 players of all time - in this case 16-seed Syracuse's case Dave Bing.

Note at the bottom of Syracuse's team sheet that an extra 10 possessions will be played because of the number of extra possessions Syracuse created due to their fast pace. As shown in the bracket at the bottom, the winner of this game gets the winner of the 8 v 9 game between UNLV 1991 and UNC 2017.

Cincinnati already had the 1960 team of Oscar Robertson in the Value Add Basketball Game, but this team with their next batch of stars comes into the game as the No. 2 ranked team in our entire game.

The 2-seed right behind them, UCLA's undefeated team from two years later, was already impressive in the first "great team against great player" match-up when they beat Villanova 85-65.

Cincinnati has a +17 rating, which combined with Syracuse's -7 makes Cincy a 24-point favorite in the game which would make an upset the biggest upset yet in our 305 games played since the invention of the game. DePaul 1981 with Mark Aguire and Terry Cummings won despite being 18-point underdogs against Kareem's UCLA teams to capture the biggest upset yet.