| Rnk | Pre | Team in Elite 8 | Yr | Star | W | L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 | UCLA | 1964 | Walt Hazzard | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | Cincinnati | 1962 | Paul Hogue | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | 16 | Kentucky | 1978 | Jack Givens | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | 3 | Kentucky | 2012 | Anthony Davis #53 | 5 | 2 |
| 20 | 11 | UCLA | 1975 | Dave Meyers | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | 5 | UCLA | 1967 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar #3 | 3 | 1 |
| 28 | 13 | Duke | 1992 | Christian Laettner | 2 | 2 |
| 43 | 14 | UNLV | 1991 | Larry Johnson | 2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | Average Team | 312 | 312 | ||
| Rnk | Pre | Other Teams | Yr | Star | W | L |
| 1 | 1 | UCLA | 1972 | Bill Walton #64 | 6 | 0 |
| 4 | 56 | Kansas | 2008 | Mario Chalmers | 5 | 1 |
| 5 | 22 | Kansas | 1997 | Paul Pierce #50 | 5 | 0 |
| 6 | 8 | Ohio St. | 1960 | Jerry Lucas #72, John Havlicek #29 | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | 9 | Indiana | 1976 | Scott May | 3 | 1 |
| 8 | 6 | Duke | 2001 | Shane Battier | 3 | 1 |
| 9 | 18 | Houston | 1968 | Elvin Hayes #41 | 3 | 1 |
| 10 | 15 | North Carolina | 1982 | Michael Jordan #1, James Worthy #59 | 5 | 1 |
| 12 | 19 | North Carolina | 2005 | Sean May | 3 | 2 |
| 13 | 10 | Connecticut | 2023 | Adama Sanogo | 5 | 1 |
| 14 | 23 | Michigan | 1993 | Chris Webber #65 | 6 | 0 |
| 15 | 26 | Villanova | 2018 | Mikal Bridges | 7 | 2 |
| 16 | 7 | Kentucky | 1996 | Antoine Walker | 2 | 1 |
| 18 | 57 | Baylor | 2021 | Jared Butler | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | 27 | San Francisco | 1956 | Bill Russell #4 | 3 | 1 |
| 21 | 58 | Connecticut | 2004 | Ben Gordon | 5 | 2 |
| 22 | 34 | Virginia | 2019 | Kyle Guy | 4 | 1 |
| 24 | 28 | Gonzaga | 2017 | Nigel Williams-Goss | 3 | 3 |
| 25 | 35 | Louisville | 2013 | Russ Smith | 2 | 1 |
| 26 | 12 | Cincinnati | 1960 | Oscar Robertson #12 | 1 | 2 |
| 27 | 105 | Auburn | 2019 | Chuma Okeke | 8 | 1 |
| 29 | 47 | UCLA | 2008 | Russell Westbrook #46 | 3 | 1 |
| 30 | 29 | Houston | 1983 | Hakeem Olajuwon #11, Clyde Drexler #43 | 2 | 1 |
| 31 | 30 | Michigan St. | 1979 | Magic Johnson #5 | 2 | 1 |
| 32 | 31 | Arkansas | 1994 | Corliss Williamson | 1 | 2 |
| 33 | 130 | DePaul | 1980 | Mark Aguirre | 3 | 1 |
| 34 | 36 | Duke | 2010 | Jon Scheyer | 5 | 2 |
| 35 | 20 | North Carolina St. | 1974 | David Thompson | 2 | 1 |
| 36 | 48 | Michigan | 1965 | Cazzie Russell | 2 | 1 |
| 37 | 69 | Purdue | 2018 | Carsen Edwards | 4 | 1 |
| 38 | 25 | Connecticut | 1996 | Ray Allen #52 | 1 | 1 |
| 39 | 59 | Georgetown | 1989 | Alonzo Mourning #69 | 4 | 1 |
| 40 | 37 | Michigan St. | 2000 | Mateen Cleaves | 4 | 1 |
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Updated Top 40 Rankings of All-Time, Including Current Elite 8
Elite 8 All-Time Match-ups and Updated Ratings
Here are the Elite 8 Match-ups in our 4th Tournament of All-Time Great teams, who is favored in each game and then the teams 8 teams that were eliminated in the Sweet 16. Teams are chosen based on:
1. Any team with one of the greatest 75 teams in history is included.
2. Any team that made at two title games in three years is included.
3. In our initial 96 teams, we limited each school to one team in each century, but as we added teams allowed extra teams from the same school that were truly elite, as long as there were no overlap in personnel (e.g. no members of the UCLA 1964, 1967, 1972 or 1975 teams overlap and they are all included, but none of the other six Bruins champions in the years in between were included.
4. If a team has a solid program, we try to include at least one team from their school that made a run. For example, St. Peter's recently became the only team to finish outside the top 100 of all teams that made the Elite 8 - so we include them as the best St. Peter's team for that run.
Elite 8 - top bracket
1-seed Cincinnati 1962 - Paul Hogue +17 vs. 8-seed UNLV 1991 - Larry Johnson +11- * all-time PG Anthony —-- Cincinnati favored by 6
4-seed Kentucky 1978 - Jack Givens +10- * all-time PG Macy vs. 5-seed Kentucky 2012 - Anthony Davis +16 — Kentucky 2012 favored by 6 |
Bottom bracket |
2-seed UCLA 1964 - Walt Hazzard +15- * all-time PG Hazzard vs. 7-seed UCLA 1967 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar +14 — UCLA 1964 favored by 1 3-seed UCLA 1975 - Dave Meyers +11 vs. 6-seed Duke 1992 - Christian Laettner +11- * all-time PG Hurley — neither team favored, toss-up |
Eliminated in Sweet 16 Eliminated 65-79 by Kentucky 1978 - Bowling Green 1963 - Nate Thurmond #49 best player ever -2 |
Eliminated 88-92 by Duke 1992 - Connecticut 2011 - Kemba Walker +1
Eliminted 60-80 by Kentucky 2012 - Dartmouth 1944 - Dick McGuire -2
Eliminated 70-72 by UCLA 1975 - Detroit Mercy 1960 - Dave DeBusschere #73 best player ever -3 |
Eliminated 64-79 by UCLA 1967 - Kansas 1952 - Clyde Lovellette +1 |
Eliminated 84-85 by UNLV - North Carolina 2017 - Justin Jackson +5 |
Eliminated by Cincy 66-80 - Syracuse 1966 - Dave Bing #74 best player ever & Jim Boeheim -7 |
Eliminated 65-85 by UCLA 1964 - Villanova 1950 - Paul Arizin #66 best player ever -3 |
End of 16 teams in 4th all-time great tournament.
Rankings to follow.
Greg Anthony Buzzer Beater Tops 2017 UNC 85-84
Kennedy Meeks produced the first 5-point play we remember in a Value Add Basketball Game with just 5 possessions - 2:44 to play - to give the 2017 UNC champs a 77-76 lead and set up a wild finish.
Joe Berry started the play with a steal and fed Meeks who scored and was fouled to cut it to 76-74. He then missed the free throw but had the rare result of getting his own rebound. Normally the shooter cannot get a rebound on his own free throw - the PF or C are the only offensive players eligible to get an offensive rebound on a fouls shot EXCEPT if one of them is shooting then the SF has a chance instead of the shooter. The only exception is the one in 10 chance that the rebound chart yields a 10 or 20 on the 20-sided die roll, which it did, and therefore as the high rebounder in the entire game for either team he got the rebound, put it up and was fouled again. He hit the first, but missed the second, and unbelievably got the rebound on his own miss again, this time kicking it out to Justin Jackson,or scored for the lead.
UNLV then took a 83-79 lead, but UNC stormed back to take an 84-83 lead with 53 seconds - two possessions - left. Both teams had a stop, leaving the last possession and Greg Anthony brought it up for one last shot.
While Anthony one of the greatest point guards of all-time, he was a past first player who would protect the ball and get it inside to big man Larry Johnson (25 points, 12 rebounds) or Stacey Augmon or Anderson Hunt. On the 8-sided die Anthony only gets the ball on a roll of 1, but this game was an exception in that Anthony got the ball a lot, including this final drop when he took the inbound and went up with it to finish with a game-winner and 21 point outing.
UNLV advances to face the 1-seed, the 1962 Cincinnati team.
| Pos | North Carolina 2017 | Pts | 3pt | 2pt | FT | Att | Reb | Stl | Blk | Fl | Actual Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-PG | Joel Berry | 25 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6'0,14.7 Pts, 3.1 Reb, 3.6 Ast |
| 2-SG | Theo Pinson | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6'6,nba,6.1 Pts, 4.6 Reb, 3.7 Ast |
| 3-SF | Justin Jackson | 14 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6'8,nba,18.3 Pts, 4.7 Reb, 2.8 Ast |
| 4-PF | Isaiah Hicks | 9 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6'8,nba,11.8 Pts, 5.5 Reb, 1.4 Ast |
| 5-C | Kennedy Meeks | 12 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6'9,12.5 Pts, 9.5 Reb, 1.0 Ast |
| 1-PG | Nate Britt | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6'1,4.5 Pts, 1.8 Reb, 2.4 Ast |
| 2-SG | Kenny Williams | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6'4,6.2 Pts, 3.3 Reb, 2.2 Ast |
| 3-SF | Brandon Robinson | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6'5,1.9 Pts, 1.2 Reb, 0.8 Ast |
| 4-PF | Luke Maye | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6'8,5.5 Pts, 3.9 Reb, 1.2 Ast |
| 5-C | Tony Bradley | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6'10,nba,7.1 Pts, 5.1 Reb, 0.6 Ast |
| Turnovers 12 | 84 | 6 | 29 | 8 | 12 | 31 | 4 | 3 | 21 | ||
| Pos | UNLV 1991 | Pts | 3pt | 2pt | FT | Att | Reb | Stl | Blk | Fl | Actual Season |
| 1-PG | Greg Anthony | 21 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6'0,nba,11.6 Pts, 2.5 Reb, 8.9 Ast |
| 2-SG | Stacey Augmon | 11 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6'6,nba,16.5 Pts, 7.3 Reb, 3.6 Ast |
| 3-SF | Anderson Hunt | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6'1,17.2 Pts, 1.6 Reb, 2.9 Ast |
| 4-PF | Elmore Spencer | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7'0,nba,6.4 Pts, 4.0 Reb, 1.2 Ast |
| 5-C | Larry Johnson | 25 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6'6,nba,22.7 Pts, 10.9 Reb, 3.0 Ast |
| 1-PG | Evric Gray | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6'7,nba,6.8 Pts, 3.7 Reb, 1.4 Ast |
| 2-SG | Travis Bice | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6'5,4.7 Pts, 0.6 Reb, 0.7 Ast |
| 3-SF | George Ackles | 8 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6'9,8.2 Pts, 5.7 Reb, 0.8 Ast |
| 4-PF | Bobby Joyce | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6'7,2.3 Pts, 1.9 Reb, 0.3 Ast |
| 5-C | Turnovers 14 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 85 | 1 | 34 | 14 | 20 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 15 |
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Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Grant Hill and Duke Survive Kemba-UConn Barrage
Kemba Walker (33 points) and UConn showed how they won two titles in four years despite not being in the www.kenpom.com top 25 before their national title runs on 2011 or 2014.
The gave our #5 greatest Dynasty ever, Duke 1992, all the could handle with 9 ties a 36-32 lead and then 9 ties culminating with Kemba Walker drawing a 5th foul on Bobby Hurley and hitting both free throws to make it 80-80 with 4:35 (8 possessions) to play.
Later Christian Laettner fouled out.
That left the third member, of the incredible trio, Grant Hill, to wrap up a 27 point game and secure a 92-88 wild shootout to send Duke to the Elite 8.
Out last Sweet 16 game will be UNLV 1991 vs UNC 2017.
Recent NBA Players Crush 1940s NBA Players: 2012 Kentucky 80, 1944 Dartmouth 60
From early on, the only question was if Anthony Davis and Kentucky could cover the 18-point spread based on being a +15 against a -3 team in Dartmouth from the 1940s.
Davis had 21 points and 11 rebounds woth 4 blocked shots and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist added 21, 7, 1 as they jumped to a 41-26 lead and never looked back.
Most of the 2012 Kentucky champs went onto the NBA, but so did most if the 1940s Dartmouth team - led by perennial All-Star Dick McGuire.
Here are the starting cards followed by the scoresheet. Kentucky sets up a second instra squad Elite 8 game, facing the 1978 Kentucky team while the UCLA teams from 1964 and 1967 faceoff as wellz guaranteeing at least one from.each school in the Final 4.
Match-ups for Sweet 16: KY 2012 vs. Dartmouth 1944, Duke 1992 vs. UConn 2011, UNLV 1991 vs. UNC 2017
Kareem led UCLA to a big win in the first of four games featuring original all-time great teams who coming off being upset, playing against four new teams in the game included when we decided every dynasty (2 or more title game appearances in 3 years) had to have a team in the game.
Here are the match-ups, with each teams ratings so you know the favorite, and if they have a great point guard that could help them win down if the game is tight down the stretch. The gre at team coming off the upset is listed first in each match-up.
UCLA 1967 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar +14 vs. Kansas 1952 - Clyde Lovellette +1, UCLA favored by 15, UCLA actually won 79-64.
Kentucky 2012 - Anthony Davis +16 vs. Dartmouth 1944 - Dick McGuire -2, Kentucky actually won 80-60.
Kentucky favored by 18 over the only one of our 312 team that is not the actual roster of the 1944 Dartmouth team that fell one basket short of the title in their second title game in three years. While Dick McGuire was on the roster and went onto be a regular NBA All-Star, due to a lack of stats we compiled this team by adding Dick's brother Al McGuire and other Dartmouth players from throughout the 1940s who whom we could find stats.
Duke 1992 - Christian Laettner +11- * all-time PG Hurley vs Connecticut 2011 - Kemba Walker +1, Duke favored by 10 and despite incredible guard play on both sides, PG Hurley gives them and end if close. Result Duke 92, UConn 88, despite 33 from Kemba Walker.
UNLV 1991 - Larry Johnson +11- * all-time PG Anthony vs North Carolina 2017 - Justin Jackson +5, UNLV by 11 in what looks like the closest match-up, but also has the edge in a tight game at the end due to Great Anthony running the point. Actual result UNLV 85-84.
The following is the second of the Value Add Basketball Game instructions that includes the links to all teams and the instructions on having a great point guard on the team.
Click and Print the Teams You Want to Play
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