Super Bowl of All-Time College Teams - POY May Leads #2 All-Time 1976 Indiana past #1 All-Time 1972 UCLA, 72-68

Bill Walton's UCLA team's 6-year undefeated Value Add Basketball Game winning streak is over. An incredible back-and-forth game for our all-time championship came down to the final 1:30 to play in the game of teams coached by John Wooden and Bobby Knight (Indiana 1976).

The loss drops 1972 UCLA to 8-1, while 1976 Indiana improves to 7-1 and will move into the No. 1 spot in our all-time ranking of 300 Value Add Basketball Game teams. UCLA drew 24 fouls to only 14 for Indiana, but left the game at the free throw line, as Henry Bibby (80% or 1-16 of 20 free throw made) hit only 3 of 6, Bill Walton (70%, 1-14) hit 4 of 7 and Andy Hill (also 70%, 1-14) went 2 of 5 - a combined 9 of 18. Those three would have been expected to hit 4 more of those free throws which would have meant a tie game.

With 1972 UCLA trailing 62-65, the Bruins Larry Farmer came through with a blocked shot, but the Hoosiers star Scott May (23 points) grabbed the offensive rebound, and put it back in while being fouled to make it 68-62 Indiana after his free throw. May was the AP Player of the Year that season.

Bill Walton (18 points, drew five fouls on Kent Benson) drew a foul with 53 seconds left and hit one of two to cut it to 70-68, but May scored again at the other end and Indiana missed a last shot to leave the final 72-68 Indiana.

The Hoosiers, the last undefeated team in NCAA history, were #3 before destroying the #2 ranked 1975 UCLA 74-51. This game was much closer, with our reigning champs 1972 UCLA leading 55-50 with 7 minutes to play, but Indiana closed on a 22-13 offensive explosion to take over as our new champ.

Back-up center Rich Valavicius was a key as he had 6 points and 4 rebounds to help the subs take a 30-28 lead before the starters came in, then came back in for the closing possessions after Kent Benson fouled out guarding Bill Walton.

But the true key was that for the first time in nine games Walton was outplayed in a game, he was held to a surprisingly low 5 rebounds, while the true star was Indiana's star Scott May outscored him 23-16 by having 10 buckets including Indiana's only 3-pointer of the game. We admit the one 3-pointer was a fluke as the 3-point line was put in during May's NBA career and he was 0 or 8 on attempts - but we allocated a couple of 3-pointers made for college players who did not have a 3-point line in order to make the play between eras competitive. Centers form that era including Walton cannot hit a 3-pointer, but a few great centers like Walton have that range replaced by a basket plus fouled for potential traditional 3-point plays.

Pos	#2 Indiana 1976	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	NBA? Ht Actual Season
1-PG	Quinn Buckner	6	0	3	0	0	2	4	0	3	nba,6'3,8.9 Pts, 2.8 Reb
2-SG	Bob Wilkerson	6	0	3	0	0	4	2	0	4	nba,6'6,7.8 Pts, 4.9 Reb
3-SG	Tom Abernethy	6	0	3	0	0	10	0	0	1	nba,6'7,10.0 Pts, 5.3 Reb
4-PF	Scott May	23	1	9	2	3	6	1	0	3	nba,6'7,23.5 Pts, 7.7 Reb
5-C	Kent Benson	13	0	6	1	2	6	1	2	5	nba,6'10,17.3 Pts, 8.8 Reb
Pos	Indiana Bench	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	NBA? Ht Actual Season
1-PG	Jim Wisman	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	6'2,2.5 Pts, 0.8 Reb
2-SG	Jim Crews	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	6'5,3.3 Pts, 0.7 Reb
3-SG	Wayne Radford	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	nba,6'3,4.7 Pts, 2.1 Reb
4-PF	Mark Haymore	6	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'8,1.8 Pts, 2.2 Reb
5-C	Rich Valavicius	6	0	2	2	2	4	0	1	2	6'5,2.4 Pts, 1.8 Reb
	20 Turnovers	72	1	32	5	7	37	9	3	24
Pos	#1 UCLA 1972	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	NBA? Ht Actual Season
1-PG	Greg Lee	6	0	2	2	2	1	5	0	1	nba,6'4,8.7 Pts, 2.0 Reb
2-SG	Henry Bibby	10	1	2	3	6	6	1	0	1	nba,6'1,15.7 Pts, 3.5 Reb
3-SG	Larry Farmer	4	0	2	0	0	7	0	2	1	6'5,10.7 Pts, 5.5 Reb
4-PF	Jamaal Wilkes	14	2	3	2	2	4	1	0	3	nba,6'6,13.5 Pts, 8.2 Reb
5-C	Bill Walton	16	0	6	4	7	5	1	5	1	nba,6'11,21.1 Pts, 15.5 Reb
Pos	UCLA 1972	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	NBA? Ht Actual Season
1-PG	Andy Hill	4	0	1	2	5	1	1	0	1	6'02.7 Pts, 0.8 Reb
2-SG	Jon Chapman	4	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	6'5,1.6 Pts, 1.6 Reb
3-SG	Tommy Curtis	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	5'11,4.1 Pts, 2.1 Reb
4-PF	Larry Hollyfield	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	2	6'4,7.3 Pts, 3.3 Reb
5-C	Swen Nater	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	nba,6'11,6.7 Pts, 4.8 Reb
	17 Turnovers	68	3	23	13	22	31	10	8	14

Game updates here:

The reserves battled for the first 7 possessions after the 20-20 stat of the game, and Indiana took a 30-28 lead by the time the starters came in for the rest of the game. Here is the sheet at that point, followed by the preview set up.

In the line-ups showed in the box score the all-time Championship game of the 300 Value Add Basketball Game teams, we did have one change in the line-ups - we had a card for Bob Bender as one of the 10 Indiana players, but we noticed above review that Wayne Radford should have been in that spot. Both were off the bench that year, but Radford actually did play a season in the NBA, and actually did average twice as many points as Bender. Since we can only keep 10 players per team in the game, we did replace Bender's card but it is a minor adjustment in the game. 

The following are the line-ups as the game started. As the scoresheet shows, each team starts the game with 20 points and some other stats in place based on position. The game is played as though 22 possessions were already played in the game, and in the game you are playing the final 44+ possessions, depending on how many extra possessions are played in the final 9 possessions due to fast break steals or fouls.

College Hoops 2nd Best Conference History - Big Ten

The second greatest conference so far in our Value Add Basketball Game is the Big Ten - which has had 21 National Champions, and Maryland won the title in 2002 before joining the Big Ten. Here is the list by school - Chicago 1907-1909; Illinois 1915; Indiana 1940, 1953, 1976, 1981,1987; Maryland 2002; Michigan 1989; Michigan State 1979, 2000; Minnesota 1902, 1919; Northwestern 1931; Ohio State 1960; Purdue 1932; Wisconsin 1912, 1914, 1916, 1941.

The conference is led so far by the last undefeated team in basketball, Bobby Knight's 1976 squad, followed by the last actual Big Ten Champion, the 2000 Michigan State Spartans.

It truly is amazing the Big Ten has technically not won a title this century (2000 is technically is the last year of the 20th century). Consider that Frank Kaminsky led Wisconsin to a 2015 Final Four upset against the Kentucky team that was considered by some the greatest ever until that game. Further only a bizarre final few seconds cost Purdue a win over eventual national champ Virginia in 2018.  Michigan State is constantly on the verge of a title.

So far the top 6 teams in the conference are 15-6 against the other greatest teams, and rank second with a 5.8 rating - which estimates they are about 6 points better than the average great team in the game - or about 27 points better than the average team.

Rnk	Great Team	Year	Key Player	W	L	Pts	Allow	Rate
	Top 6 Other Conf			15	6	73.7	68.2	5.8
1	Indiana	1976	Scott May	3	1	71.3	59.8	9.6
2	Michigan St.	2000	Mateen Cleaves	3	0	88.3	78.3	7.3
3	Purdue	2018	Carsen Edwards	4	1	71.2	68.8	5.0
4	Michigan	1989	Glen Rice	0	1	69.0	70.0	4.6
5	Illinois	2005	Deron Williams	3	2	72.0	69.6	4.3
6	Michigan St.	1979	Magic Johnson	2	1	70.3	62.7	4.1
7	Wisconsin	2015	Frank Kaminsky	2	2	65.0	63.3	3.4
8	Michigan	1965	Cazzie Russell	1	1	81.0	71.5	2.5
9	Iowa	2021	Luka Garza	1	0	88.0	69.0	2.4
10	Ohio St.	1960	Jerry Lucas	0	1	78.0	79.0	2.2
11	Illinois	1989	Nick Anderson	1	1	78.0	77.0	2.0
12	Indiana	1981	Isaiah Thomas	1	1	73.0	73.0	1.3
13	Michigan St.	2009	Draymond Green	6	3	71.3	71.9	0.9
14	Michigan	2013	Trey Burke	1	2	70.3	69.7	0.3
15	Ohio St.	2007	Greg Oden	2	3	70.2	71.4	-0.4
16	Purdue	1969	Rick Mount	0	1	86.0	87.0	-0.8
17	Maryland	1984	Len Bias	1	1	69.5	68.5	-3.2
18	Indiana	2002	Jared Jeffries	1	3	67.3	72.8	-3.9
19	Maryland	2002	Juan Dixon	1	3	67.0	76.3	-4.0
20	Iowa	2001	Reggie Evans	1	2	71.0	75.3	-5.3

We invented the Value Add Basketball Game, and since then have grown it to to 135 teams of all-time great teams and players. We have played 188 games to date, and 63,000 unique visitors have clicked on the game. 

Seven current conferences have at least six all-time great teams in the game. We decided to rank those conferences based on the average rating of their top six teams so far in our games against other teams.

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