Lady Trojans Crush South Carolina for Final all-time Elite 8 Spot, 79-59.

 The Lady Trojans (1983) struggled through the opening round of our all-time great women's team, but dominated South Carolina (2017) in the second round in perhaps the matchup of the two greatest players of all time. This tournament is being played using the Value Add Basketball Game.

Cheryl Miller hit a 3-pointer to close out the first half and start an incredible 51-30 run to win going away 79-59. USC won in a block party - 12 blocked shots spread out over every starter except the point guard. While the underdog moving forward, USC next faces a UConn 2010 that struggled to a single digit opening round win.

The all-time Elite 8 is now set:

#12 Notre Dame 2018 vs #1 UConn 2016

#4 La Tech 1982 vs #5 Baylor 2019

#7 USC 1983 vs #2 UConn 2010

#3 Tennessee 1998 vs #6 Baylor 2012

Miller (16 points, 8 rebounds) hit four 3-pointers, while twins Paula McGee (11, 9 and 4 blocks) and Pam McGee (22, 7 and drew 5 fouls on South Carolina Center Alaina Coates) combined for multiple traditional 3-point plays. They even did one backward, with Pam hitting one free throw but missing the second one, but Paula grabbing the rebound and getting it back to her for a bucket.

USC advances to the All-Time Elite 8.

The 2017 South Carolina was not a dominant champ like the current team. They ended up not playing another top 5 team in the tournament due to upsets by eventual runner up Mississippi State and others. However they may have had the best player ever in A'ja Wilson - though USC could make the same claim with Cheryl Miller.

Wilson single handedly destroyed Ohio State 2016 in the opening round, but was held to 12 points and 9 rebounds against the Lady Trojans four dominant bigs.

Women's BB All-Time Great Team Player Cards Debut for Value Add Basketball Game

For the first time, we now have All-Time great college women's basketball teams for use with our Value Add Basketball Game. We will turn these into cards, but you can play the game using them as sheets. Just find the team you want to play and print out that sheet and it will print that sheet with three teams. The last of seven sheets with Cheryl Miller's USC team includes notes on what each range means by the player. 

Once I calculated the cards, I ran the numbers and it appears the two UConn teams and Pat Summitt's undefeated Tennessee team have the best cards, and all three would probably beat the average women's college basketball team by 50 points.

Not far behind them it appears both Baylor teams, the original NCAA champ Louisiana Tech, and Cheryl Miller's USC team could be the next best. After watching South Carolina destroy #3 LSU before the Super Bowl last night, it looks to me like they will be even better than the 2021 team I have in the game, which looks like the 8th best team in the game.

Seed	Great Team	Year	Cards pts above average
1	Connecticut	2016	49.9
2	Connecticut	2010	48.6
3	Tennessee	1998	47.7
4	Louisiana Tech	1982	43.6
5	Baylor	2019	41.5
6	Baylor	2012	41.0
7	USC	1983	39.8
8	Stanford	2021	39.3
9	Texas A&M	2011	37.9
10	South Carolina	2017	35.0
11	Ohio St.	2016	34.3
12	Mississippi St.	2018	33.7
13	Notre Dame	2018	33.7
14	Washington	2017	33.6
15	Oregon	2019	30.9
16	Louisville	2014	30.2
17	Texas	2018	21.9
18	Old Dominion	1980	20.0
19	Duke	2006	19.1
20	Long Beach St.	1987	18.6

While we have had more than 64,000 unique visitors to the game, I'm sure many others with no interest in playing a board game might still like looking over the sheets to get a feel for how good great players were.

We did try to keep it to one team per school to include as many schools as possible, but as you can see at the top did include two teams each for both Baylor and UConn out of our 20 total colleges represented. 

Stats are much hard to pull together for many of these teams, and we also calculated in WNBA stats for everyone who played there, and in other cases had to pull together multiple box scores from individual games to accurately rank a player. 

16 All-Time Great Women's College Teams to be Added to Game

Basketball Reference is doing a great job of building up women's historic stats. Still a work on progress, but I believe I have pulled enough from them and other sources to pull together an initial all-time great Women's teams for the Value Add Basketball Game.

I try to pull the greatest teams but also teams with the greatest players of all time so they have cards. Here is a great piece on Nate Silver's site tracking the women's dynasties.

I try to pick as many different schools as possible, so to do that Baylor and UConn are the only schools with two teams even though they and Tennessee and the new South Carolina teams could fill out a whole game.

We are also limited by which teams have stats, or at least enough accounts of games that I can compile the player cards. 

Here are the 16 teams I intend to roll out as early as this weekend if the calculations go well.

School	Year	Season	Star Player - POY at some point in career
Baylor	2012	Nat'l Champs	Odyssey Sims & Brittney Griner (both POY)
Baylor	2019	Nat'l Champs	NaLyssa Smith (POY)
Connecticut	2010	Nat'l Champs	Maya Moore (POY)
Connecticut	2016	Nat'l Champs	Breanna Stewart (POY)
Duke	2002	Final 4	Alana Beard
Louisiana Tech	1982	Nat'l Champs	Pam Kelly (POY)
Notre Dame	2018	Nat'l Champs	Arike Ogunbowale (POY)
Ohio St.	2016	Sweet 16	Kelsey Mitchell (POY)
Oregon	2019	Final 4	Sabrina Ionescu
South Carolina	2017	Nat'l Champs	A'ja Wilson (POY)
Stanford	2021	Nat'l Champs	Haley Jones
Tennessee	1998	Nat'l Champs	Chamique Holdsclaw (POY)
Texas	2018	Sweet 16	Brooke McCarty
Texas A&M	2011	Nat'l Champs	Danielle Adams
USC	1984	Nat'l Champs	Cheryl Miller (POY)
Washington	2017	Sweet 16	Kelsey Plum

Trying to figure out if we can cobble together numbers for an Old Dominion University and/or Long Beach State team.

We can go with Madison Montgomery's 2017 Long Beach State team as we have their stats, though obviously would prefer to pull together some info on the back-to-back Final Four teams from 1987 and 1988.

For Old Dominion we don't even have their 2008 team stats, though would love to have 1985 of course.