2021 MVP Mobley and USC edge Dayton and 2020 MVP Toppin 79-76 in OT

With Dayton 2020 leading 52-46 with 7:03 to play, Evan Mobley (19 points, 17 rebounds, 10 fouls drawn) drew a 5th foul against Obi Toppin. 

With Toppin in the bench, USC 2021 exploded for a 19-11 run to go up 65-63 with 16 seconds left, but Jalen Crutcher hit a buzzer beater to force overtime. 

USC dominated the boards in OT for a 79-76 road win. The game last 57 minutes from first dice roll.

Pregame write up

In 2020, Obi Toppin was picked as the top player in the country by the Naismith Committee, but Covid kept him from trying to lead Dayton to the national title. In 2021, Evan Mobley was calculated as the top player in the country by www.valueaddbasketball.com. Both are newer teams in our game and won their opener, so we played them against each other to determine which would then play 2-0 Colorado 2021 to see which of the new teams started 3-0.

The following is the line-up rotation we decided to use for each team. You do NOT need to be this precise in playing time - you can just play the bottom five players on the sheet from the 44th to 38th possession and the top row of starters from the 37th possession to the 1st (actually last and final) possession.

Results will be posted later tonight. 

Four Teams Vie to Join Kansas 1997 and UCLA 1972 as 3rd All-Time Unbeaten

After a great day of college basketball, we flipped back to a couple of Value Add Basketball Games. Only six of our 136 teams are still undefeated.

UCLA is 6-0 due to winning the big tournament we did of the first 96 teams we created. Kansas 1997 is 5-0 after winning the second tournament we did after creating new teams. 

While those two teams rank 1st and 3rd, the other four teams have played only a game or two and rank between 44th and 71st in our all-time rankings. We decided we should at least let these teams play until they've lost at least once, so we are pitting 1982 Missouri against 2021 Colorado, and then 2021 USC against the team that might have won the tournament if not for Covid - 2020 Dayton.

At that point only two of those four will be undefeated, and then they can play each other and we will have one 3-0 team (or if Missouri wins both a 4-0 team) as the only undefeated team except for 1997 Kansas and 1972 UCLA).

Rank	Next Game	Year	Player	Won	Lost	Score	Allow	Rating
44	Missouri	1982	Steve Stipanovich	2	0	69.5	65.5	1.5
62	Colorado	2021	McKinley Wright	1	0	86.0	82.0	-0.6
	Game After
71	Dayton	2020	Obi Toppin	1	0	87.0	82.0	-1.6
56	USC	2021	Evan Mobley	1	0	77.0	67.0	0.0
	Not playing, only other undefeated
3	Kansas	1997	Paul Pierce	5	0	76.8	62.2	14.7
1	UCLA	1972	Bill Walton	6	0	72.0	62.0	15.5

As a reminder, to play you click on the Value Add Basketball Game to print scoresheets or review the rules and charts, then click on the 136 all-time great teams and you will see on page 1 that you click pages 16, 23, 82 and 123 to print those four teams.