Defense Optional! 1986 Cleveland St. 100 to 1957 Canisius 94

 

The Sweet 16 is set.

Auburn 2025 Repeats Actual Behind-to-Blowout To Advance

 In the actual Elite 8 last year Auburn rallied to finish on a 38-17 run to beat Michigan 78-65 after trailing 48-40 with 13 minutes to play.

In our Value Add Basketball Game today the same 2025 Auburn team closed on a 40-18 run to beat the 2025 Arizona team 76-58 after trailing 40-36 with 17 minutes to play.

Miles Kelly's 4-point play tied the game at 40-40 and then Johni Broome took over inside the rest of the game to finish with 17 points and 13 rebounds to advance to the Sweet 16 of newly created teams.

100 Most Valuable Men's College Basketball Players in VABG 1939 to Now

After playing hundreds of simulated Value Add Basketball games using 300 great college basketball team cards that I researched and calculated myself, this is my updated list of the 100 greatest college basketball players in our game - which includes most players in history.

In addition to overall level and play and impact on the game, we looked at Win Shares per 10 team games played, which allows meaningful comparison across eras with vastly different schedules. About two-thirds of the players on this list have published college Win Share data; for the remaining one-third, I produced estimates using the same Value Add methodology.

To clarify the scale: a player with 4.8 Win Shares per 10 games is worth roughly five wins for every ten games his team plays.

For example, Kansas went 42–8 during Wilt Chamberlain’s tenure. A value of 4.8 WS per 10 games credits Wilt with roughly 24 of those wins, leaving the remaining 18 wins attributable to his teammates, while the team lost eight games overall. This framing makes it possible to compare players fairly across teams, eras, and rule sets. Wilt was clearly the most valuable player to his team, though I rank him third overall.

One caveat on "Most Valuable" vs. "Greatest" (which I originally called this list) is that it is hard to make the list if there were two truly great players on your team because the team likely could have won a lot of games without you. There are two duos on this list - UNC's Michael Jordan and James Worthy and Ohio State's Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek. However, in other cases to site even my alma mater - neither Jimmy Butler or Jae Crowder made the list for the season they played together but when it was just Butler his value went up. The same with Bo Ellis and Butch Lee or with Dean Meminger and Jim Chones. Every university will have similar examples where a tremendously valuable player does not make the top 100 list because they team had another all-time superstar. Also these are only players in the game, and we try to get at least one team per school but also not to have too many teams from any given school so some players were not considered because their team is not among the 300 in the game.

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Why Anthony Davis Ranks 7th All-Time

The ranking most people will debate is Anthony Davis at No. 7. Based on my Value Add Basketball rankings that were covered in this Sports Illustrated article more than a decade ago, I found that Davis was by far the most valuable college basketball player of the 21st century, based on his performance during Kentucky’s 2012 national championship season—ironically, I was in attendance at the only game that team lost (at Indiana).

If players throughout history had competed under the same rules and conditions, I don’t believe there would be any debate that Anthony Davis belongs among the ten greatest college players of all time.

The primary reason Davis is often ranked below many 20th-century stars is structural, not performance-based. Davis played in the one-and-done era, meaning his entire college résumé consists of his freshman season. In contrast, during most of the 20th century, elite players were not allowed to play varsity basketball as freshmen, meaning their first college action came as sophomores—after a full year of development.

The Value Add Basketball research mentioned above shows that MOST CAREER improvement in a player’s career almost always occurs between the freshman and sophomore seasons.

In other words:

• If all great players in history had been limited to only their freshman seasons, Anthony Davis would clearly rank among the top 10 college players ever.

• Conversely, if Davis had been required to sit out as a freshman and then played sophomore and junior seasons at Kentucky, as most historical greats did, he almost certainly would have built a résumé universally recognized as top-10 all-time.

Thus, when all players are evaluated under equal conditions, Anthony Davis emerges as one of the greatest 10 college basketball players in history. The only reason this isn’t universally accepted is that the rules changed, not the level of dominance.

If we ranked only the 65 players on this lost for whom we have actual Win Shares, Kareem and Walton are 1st and 2nd, and Davis is 5th - and tracing normal improvement range Davis would have very likely had the best Win Share in history if he played a sophomore season.

And yes, Michael Jordan is the greatest overall player - but considering only all college careers only with no consideration of the pro career that followed, I have him 4th.

Rank	Player (School)	WS / 10	Draft Pick (Overall)
1	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (UCLA)	4.8	1
2	Bill Walton (UCLA)	4.5	1
3	Wilt Chamberlain (Kansas)	4.8	1
4	Michael Jordan (North Carolina)	2.6	3
5	Oscar Robertson (Cincinnati)	4.2	1
6	Bill Russell (San Francisco)	3.9	2
7	Anthony Davis (Kentucky)	3.9	1
8	Pete Maravich (LSU)	3.8	3
9	Jerry West (West Virginia)	3.7	2
10	Elvin Hayes (Houston)	3.6	1
11	David Robinson (Navy)	4	1
12	Jerry Lucas (Ohio State)	3.5	2
13	Tim Duncan (Wake Forest)	3.4	1
14	Larry Bird (Indiana State)	3.3	6
15	Julius Erving (UMass)	3.4	12
16	John Havlicek (Ohio State)	3	7
17	Elgin Baylor (Seattle)	3.3	1
18	Kevin Durant (Texas)	3.5	2
19	Rick Barry (Miami)	3.3	2
20	Shaquille O'Neal (LSU)	3.1	1
21	Hakeem Olajuwon (Houston)	3	1
22	Carmelo Anthony (Syracuse)	3	3
23	Ralph Sampson (Virginia)	3.1	1
24	Bob Cousy (Holy Cross)	3.2	10
25	Magic Johnson (Michigan State)	2.7	1
26	Danny Manning (Kansas)	3.2	1
27	Bob Pettit (LSU)	3.1	2
28	Clyde Lovellette (Kansas)	3	1
29	Irv Torgoff (Long Island University)	3.6	50
30	Bob McAdoo (North Carolina)	3	2
31	Wes Unseld (Louisville)	2.9	2
32	Christian Laettner (Duke)	2.6	3
33	James Worthy (North Carolina)	2.2	1
34	Frank Kaminsky (Wisconsin)	3.4	9
35	Reggie Miller (UCLA)	2	11
36	Dwyane Wade (Marquette)	2.9	5
37	Dave Bing (Syracuse)	2.9	2
38	Scott May (Indiana)	2.4	2
39	Isiah Thomas (Indiana)	2.4	2
40	Patrick Ewing (Georgetown)	2.9	1
41	Vince Carter (North Carolina)	2.1	5
42	Shane Battier (Duke)	2.7	6
43	Dave Cowens (Florida State)	2.6	4
44	Gary Payton (Oregon State)	2.7	2
45	Ray Allen (Connecticut)	2.6	5
46	Artis Gilmore (Jacksonville)	2.7	1
47	Jameer Nelson (St. Joe's)	3.5	20
48	Bob Lanier (St. Bonaventure)	2.8	1
49	Kawhi Leonard (San Diego State)	3.1	15
50	Bo Kimble (LMU)	2.8	8
51	Jason Kidd (California)	2.5	2
52	Nate Thurmond (Bowling Green)	2.3	3
53	Draymond Green (Michigan State)	2.5	35
54	Glen Rice (Michigan)	3.1	4
55	Ken Sailors (Wyoming)	2.5	100
56	Allen Iverson (Georgetown)	2.3	1
57	Chris Paul (Wake Forest)	3.1	4
58	Kemba Walker (Connecticut)	3.7	9
59	Chris Webber (Michigan)	2.4	1
60	Damian Lillard (Weber State)	3.6	6
61	Zach Edey (Purdue)	4.2	9
62	Walt Hazzard (UCLA)	2.3	1
63	Cooper Flagg (Duke)	2.2	1
64	Austin Carr (Notre Dame)	2.7	1
65	Larry Johnson (UNLV)	3	1
66	John Stockton (Gonzaga)	2.2	16
67	Bernard King (Tennessee)	2.2	7
68	Jimmy Butler (Marquette)	2.4	30
69	Jared Butler (Baylor)	2.7	40
70	Ja Morant (Murray State)	3.8	2
71	Mark Aguirre (DePaul)	2.1	1
72	Johnny Dawkins (Duke)	2.3	10
73	Dominique Wilkins (Georgia)	2.6	3
74	Cazzie Russell (Michigan)	2.6	1
75	Alonzo Mourning (Georgetown)	2.8	2
76	Doug McDermott (Creighton)	3.7	11
77	Steve Nash (Santa Clara)	2.8	15
78	Buddy Hield (Oklahoma)	3.3	6
79	Evan Mobley (USC)	3.2	3
80	Luka Garza (Iowa)	3.9	52
81	Paul Pierce (Kansas)	2.1	10
82	Ben Gordon (Connecticut)	2.9	3
83	Tyler Kolek (Marquette)	3.6	34
84	Walt Frazier (Southern Illinois)	2.4	5
85	Sean May (North Carolina)	3	13
86	Andre Miller (Utah)	3	8
87	Brandon Roy (Washington)	2.9	6
88	Ochai Agbaji (Kansas)	2.8	14
89	Brook Lopez (Stanford)	2.6	10
90	Shane Larkin (Miami)	3	18
91	Ryan Kalkbrenner (Creighton)	3.3	44
92	Sidney Moncrief (Arkansas)	2	5
93	Armen Gilliam (UNLV)	2.6	2
94	Drew Timme (Gonzaga)	3.4	100
95	Bob Kurland (Oklahoma St.)	2.4	40
96	Nigel Williams-Goss (Gonzaga)	2.9	55
97	Greg Oden (Ohio St.)	2.3	1
98	Reggie King (Alabama)	1.8	25
99	Derrick Rose (Memphis)	2	1
100	Charlie Ward (Florida State)	2.4	26

Arizona -Auburn Winner to Replace UCLA 2008 in New Team Tournament - Other Debuts

 After playing our 1957 Canisius vs. 1986 Cleveland State matchup to determine the final Sweet 16 spot, we decided to replace the one team that was not new—UCLA 2008—by playing off the two best remaining new teams from last year’s set of 10 new additions I made right after the season but we had forgotten to place. The winner of that play-in will take UCLA’s spot.

Below are the matchups for those games and several others, including each team’s star player, conference, and the expected spread (which is simply one team’s rating minus the other team’s rating). The Value ratings of the player cards add up to numbers similar to team rankings at www.kenpom.com, but a bit different with more credit for good post season showings and a few other factors.

Auburn 2025 — Johni Broome — SEC
by 7 over
Arizona 2025 — Caleb Love — Big 12

When that game is complete—along with Cleveland State vs. Canisius—we will have played 292 of our 300 all-time Value Add Basketball teams. That will leave only the other eight new teams we created at the end of last season. Those represent three SEC teams overdue for inclusion after perhaps the greatest season ever by a conference, plus a few schools and conferences we simply wanted represented in the game.

Mississippi 2025 — Sean Pedulla — SEC
by 36 over
Alabama State 2025 — Amarr Knox — SWAC

Arkansas 2025 — Adou Thiero — SEC
by 32 over
Montana 2025 — Joe Pridgen — Big Sky

Vanderbilt 2025 — Jason Edwards — SEC
by 18 over
Mount St. Mary’s 2025 — Dola Adebayo — MAAC

High Point 2025 — Kimani Hamilton — Big South
by 1 over
Robert Morris 2025 — Amarion Dickerson — Horizon League

Only NIT-NCAA Joint Champ Dominates Most Unlikely Sweet 16 Ever

Most Shocking Sweet 16 Team Ever – Oral Roberts had just a 3.5% chance of beating Ohio State with less than two minutes to play. Against Florida, with under five minutes left, ORU’s win probability was only 6%, yet they pulled it off again. After their stunning Sweet 16 run, could the incredible duo of Max Abmas and Kevin Obanor take down one of the greatest champions ever in our Value Add Basketball Game? With the 15th Sweet 16 spot on the line, we rolled the dice.
https://www.pudnersports.com/2019/02/value-add-basketball-board-game-debuts.html

This matchup may have paired the best rebounding team in our game—the only team ever to win both the NCAA and NIT when both were considered equal championships, despite starting four sophomores—against perhaps the greatest Cinderella ever: 15-seed Oral Roberts, the worst rebounding team in our game, who didn’t rank in the Top 300 nationally in either offensive or defensive rebounding in 2021.

Oral Roberts is, in my opinion, the most shocking Sweet 16 team in history. Not only were they a 15-seed, but even after winning the Summit League tournament they still ranked only around 125th nationally. They then pulled off back-to-back NCAA Tournament wins despite having less than a 5% chance late in both games—thanks entirely to the unreal scoring of Max Abmas and Kevin Obanor, who combined to average nearly 57 points per game across the four must-win contests below:

Max Abmas	Kevin Obanor	Total Pts	Result
33	29	62	stunned South Dakota St. 90–88 (Summit Semi)
32	21	53	stunned North Dakota St. 75–72 (Summit Final)
29	30	59	as a 15-seed, 6% win chance late, stunned Ohio St. 75–72
26	28	54	<4% win chance last 2 minutes, stunned Florida 81–78

That résumé is why I believe they are the most surprising Sweet 16 team ever.

However… CCNY immediately showed why they may be one of the greatest champions ever in our Value Add Basketball Game universe. CCNY grabbed 10 of the first 11 rebounds, held Abmas and Obanor to just 17 and 9 points, dominated the glass 46–22, and cruised to an 80–45 win. If not for the point-shaving scandal the following year, it’s fair to wonder whether CCNY could have three-peated and been considered among the greatest teams of all time.

CCNY 1950 Box Summary

Pos	Player	Class	Pts	Notes
PG	Alvin Roth	SO	5	5 rebounds, 3 steals
SG	Floyd Layne	SO	6	7 rebounds, 3 steals
SF	Ed Warner	SO	8	11 rebounds
PF	Irwin Dambrot	SR	11	10 rebounds
C	Ed Roman	SO	27	6 rebounds
PG	Meyer Wittlin	SR	2	1 rebound
SG	Ronnie Nadell	JR	4	1 rebound
SF	Herb Cohen	SO	6	4 rebounds
PF	Joe Galiber	SR	6	1 rebound
C	Norman Mager	SR	5	1 rebound

ORU Team: outrebounded 46–22, lost 80–45

We’ll post updated score sheets below. CCNY’s win capped a dominant era in which New York teams won five of twelve national titles, with St. John’s and Long Island University each claiming two of the others.

1st Dynasty Long Island 1939 Crushes Current NIT Champs

Thanks to sources such as the Kentucky Big Blue History box score of Long Island crushing the Wildcats in 1939, the Marquette Archives, and a New York Times account of Marquette coming closest to upsetting Long Island during their 24–0 season—when consensus All-American Irv Torgoff rallied LIU against Marquette’s Converse All-American Dave Quabius—we were able to put together player cards for our earliest dynasty team. Long Island was college basketball’s first true dynasty, winning national titles in 1937, 1939 (undefeated), and 1941.

We went to great detail researching the 1930s for oor book more than a decade ago pictured at the bottom - the Ultimate Hoops Guide: Marquette.

Their first championship was the Metropolitan Title in 1937, the year before the NIT started. LIU then skipped the first NIT tournament, came up just short of repeating as Metro champions, and returned to storm through the undefeated 1939 NIT title at 24–0 with the player cards pictured below. They wrapped their run with another title in 1941. One reason we try to play each new team is to catch any errors, and in this game realize a typo on the free throw range was showing 11- instead of 1-, so we will correct, but if the card show 11-15 that means 1-15, and 11-10 means 1-10 on a free throw made.

One long-time challenge with early-era teams is having enough stats to produce accurate Value Add Basketball Game player cards. We had great luck finding detailed material on the 1942 Wyoming team led by Kenny Sailors, who invented the modern jump shot and carried Wyoming to a national championship, and we have had them as a team all along. However, this is the first year we felt confident in having enough info to produce Long Island 1939. 

Their ranking as a 62nd all-time team of our 300 great teams in the game slotted them against a play-in winner—and they drew one of the newest teams, 2025 NIT Champion Chattanooga, who barely survived their play-in over 2001 Howard.

Back in the early Madison Square Garden era, a first draw to pack the arena was Irv Torgoff, as one of the first great New York Jewish basketball stars, dominating the early NIT years before the NCAA Tournament fully took hold. That legacy continued through occasional modern stars like Jon Scheyer, Duke’s current head coach and when we ran our Value Add Basketball calculations covered by Sports Illustrated years back, Scheyer rated as the most valuable college players of this century in his senior year—just edging out Anthony Davis’ 2012 season (if Davis was not a one-and-done he would have passed Scheyer as the most valuable college player of the century.

In this Value Add Basketball Game matchup, Chattanooga managed to hold Torgoff to single digits scoring—but he still posted 8 rebounds, 6 steals, and 2 blocks, anchoring a defense that held Chattanooga to just 57 points in an 81–57 win that was never in doubt. Long Island advances to the Sweet 16 as the 14th team to clinch a spot, moving from 62nd to 49th all-time based on our KenPom-style rating system.

Their preseason rating of +3.0 (meaning they were projected to be roughly three points better than a baseline “great” AP Top 10 AND Elite Eight–level team) jumped after earning a Game Score of +9.0, driven by a dominant 24-point win over a –18 opponent plus the three-point win bonus. That pushes LIU to +4.5, making them roughly a 10-point favorite in their Sweet 16 game against St. Louis, currently ranked 185th among our 300 great teams in the Value Add Basketball Game.

Point guard Oscar Shechtman shocked Chattanooga with a game-high 22 points, while Arthur Hillhouse controlled the glass with 11 rebounds. LIU also dominated the turnover battle 24–15, fueled by 13 steals and constant transition pressure.

Pos	Long Island 1939	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl
1-PG	Oscar Shechtman	22	3	6	1	2	2	2	0	3
2-SG	Dan Kaplowitz	10	0	3	4	8	2	1	0	4
3-SG	Irving Torgoff	7	1	2	0	0	8	6	2	1
4-PF	John Bromberg	16	1	6	1	1	2	2	0	2
5-C	Arthur Hillhouse	11	0	3	5	6	11	2	1	2
Pos	Bench	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl
1-PG	Si Lobello	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	2
2-SG	Myron Sewitch	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1
3-SG	Irving Zeitlin	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1
4-PF	Joe Shelly	7	1	2	0	0	3	0	0	1
5-C	Butch Schwartz	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1
	15 Turnovers	81	6	26	11	17	33	13	3	18
Pos	Chattanooga 2025	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl
1-PG	Trey Bonham	7	0	2	3	4	1	1	0	2
2-SG	Honor Huff	11	1	1	6	7	3	1	0	5
3-SG	Bash Wieland	14	0	7	0	0	3	2	0	1
4-PF	Garrison Keeslar	8	0	3	2	2	6	3	0	1
5-C	Collin Mulholland	6	1	1	1	2	3	0	1	3
Pos	Bench	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl
1-PG	Frank Champion	3	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	2
2-SG	Jack Kostel	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1
3-SG	Makai Richards	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1
4-PF	Sean Cusano	2	0	1	0	0	6	0	0	4
5-C	Latif Diouf	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1
	24 Turnovers	57	2	19	13	17	27	7	1	21

Sweet 16

Group 1

Florida 2025 vs. Iona 1980

St. John's 2025 vs. Ball State 1990

Group 2

Duke 2025 vs. Fordham 1971

NC State 1983 vs Florida Gulf Coast 2013

Group 3

Oral Roberts 2021 or City College of New York 1950 vs Cleveland St. 1986 or Canisius 1957

Long Beach St. 1972 vs UC San Diego 2025

Group 4

UCLA 2008 vs idaho 1982

Long Island U 1939 vs St. Louis 1952

Christmas - top 300 All-time

 Here are the updated top 300 all-time teams in our Value Add Basketball Game. We also simplified our game log. In the 363 games we have played between these great teams so far (we have played tournament of particular seasons as well) we have had 53,021 total points scored with the average score being a 10-point margin of a 78-68 for the winner. The average score the past 2 seasons in D1 games has been 80-66, so the same 73 points per game per team, but a few more blowouts in actual play then in our all-time results of simulated games between the teams listed below. 

The ratings work like the current ratings at www.kenpom.com. each team starts with a rating based on how good they appeared to be based on their cards, but then we adjust based on the result of each game. The biggest disruptor game we had was when 1980 DePaul with Terry Cummings and Mark Aguirre stunned Kareem and 1967 UCLA who we thought might be the best team in the game. As a result of that and a couple of games, both teams have hovered around the top 25 even though DePaul would have been a close call for the top 100 and UCLA 1967s rating if +13 in the game log indicates that based in their cards we thought they were actually the 5th best team of all time behind the 1962 Cincinnati team, Anthony Davis' 2012 Kentucky team and two other UCLA teams.

Teams can be hot or cold jist like in real life. When we were only playing 21st century teams early on, Louisville 2013 came up with tons if steals to beat UConn 2004 by 74-61. UConn then dominated the boards to beat Villanova 2018 by 73-56  Villanova then shot lights out to beat Louisville 77-73.

Rnk	Team	Sco	All	W	L	Rat	Conf	Player
1	UCLA 1972	72.4	60	7	0	18	B10	Bill Walton #44
2	Indiana 1976	69.7	54.2	5	1	16.2	B10	Scott May
3	UCLA 1975	78.2	68.2	5	0	16	B10	Dave Meyers
4	North Carolina 1982	68.7	63.4	6	1	13.8	ACC	Michael Jordan #1
5	Kansas 1997	77.8	66.2	5	1	13.3	B12	Paul Pierce #62
6	Kansas 2008	72.4	59.1	5	2	12.6	B12	Mario Chalmers
7	Houston 1968	73	63.8	3	1	12.4	B12	Elvin Hayes #58
8	North Carolina 2005	72.2	64.4	3	2	11.4	ACC	Sean May
9	Cincinnati 1962	69.8	70	2	2	11.3	B12	Paul Hogue
10	Kentucky 2012	74.5	67.6	8	3	11.2	SEC	Anthony Davis #71
11	Duke 2001	78	73.3	5	1	11.1	ACC	Shane Battier
12	Connecticut 2023	75.1	66	6	1	11	BE	Adama Sanogo
13	UCLA 1964	76.8	76.3	2	2	10.4	B10	Walt Hazzard
14	Virginia 2019	72.6	65.4	4	1	10	ACC	Kyle Guy
15	Kentucky 1996	72	69.3	2	1	9.7	SEC	Antoine Walker
16	San Francisco 1956	71	65.8	4	2	9.7	WCC	Bill Russell #6
17	Duke 2025	92	52	1	0	9.5	ACC	Cooper Flagg, AA, NBA #1
18	Ohio St. 1960	84.3	79.3	2	2	9.4	B10	Jerry Lucas #46
19	Baylor 2021	86	78.5	2	2	9.4	B12	Jared Butler
20	Michigan 1993	68	59	6	1	9.3	B10	Chris Webber #76
21	Villanova 2018	79.6	71.9	6	3	9.2	BE	Mikal Bridges
22	Gonzaga 2017	69.8	63	3	3	9	p12	Nigel Williams-Goss
23	Connecticut 2004	74.7	66	5	2	8.6	BE	Ben Gordon
24	Kentucky 1978	81.6	78	3	2	8.1	SEC	Jack Givens
25	Cincinnati 1960	72.3	78	1	2	8	B12	Oscar Robertson #9
26	Duke 2010	74	66.7	5	2	7.8	ACC	Jon Scheyer
27	UCLA 1967	80	80.6	3	2	7.8	B10	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar #3
28	Arkansas 1994	75.3	70.3	1	2	7.8	sec	Corliss Williamson
29	Duke 1992	77.6	75.4	2	3	7.6	ACC	Christian Laettner
30	Houston 2021	86	62	1	1	7.6	B12	Quentin Grimes
31	DePaul 1980	76.8	68.8	3	1	7.6	BE	Mark Aguirre
32	Louisville 2013	74	66.3	2	1	7.5	ACC	Russ Smith
33	Auburn 2019	71	65.3	8	1	7.2	SEC	Chuma Okeke
34	North Carolina St. 1974	72	72.7	2	1	6.7	ACC	David Thompson
35	Michigan St. 2000	80.5	77	5	1	6.7	B10	Mateen Cleaves
36	Michigan St. 1979	70.3	62.7	2	1	6.7	B10	Magic Johnson #4
37	NC State 1983	73	43	1	0	6.5	ACC	Lorenzo Charles
38	Western Kentucky 1966	76.3	71.7	7	2	6.5	CUSA	Clem Haskins
39	Purdue 2018	71.2	68.8	4	1	6.4	B10	Carsen Edwards
40	Houston 1983	71.5	65.5	3	1	6.3	B12	Hakeem Olajuwon #13
41	Connecticut 1996	85	76.5	1	1	5.8	BE	Ray Allen #47
42	Michigan 1965	85.7	79	2	1	5.7	B10	Cazzie Russell
43	UCLA 2008	79	67.8	4	1	5.5	B10	Russell Westbrook #68
44	Georgetown 1989	73.2	69.2	4	1	5.4	BE	Alonzo Mourning #78
45	North Carolina 2017	84	85	0	1	5.3	ACC	Justin Jackson
46	Oregon 2017	71.9	69.9	4	3	5.2	B10	Dillon Brooks
47	New Mexico St. 1970	79	67.7	2	1	4.7	CUSA	Jimmy Collins
48	Illinois 2005	72	69.6	3	2	4.6	B10	Deron Williams
49	Memphis 2008	68.7	65.8	4	2	4.3	Amer	Derrick Rose
50	Jacksonsville 1970	74.3	73.3	1	2	4.2	UAC	Artis Gilmore
51	Duke 2015	77.6	71.6	4	1	4	ACC	Justise Winslow
52	UNLV 1991	73.3	78.7	2	4	4	MWC	Larry Johnson
53	Auburn 2025			0	0	4	SEC	Johni Broome
54	Wisconsin 2015	65	63.3	2	2	3.9	B10	Frank Kaminsky
55	Charlotte 1977	84.5	71.5	1	1	3.8	Amer	Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell
56	Georgetown 1984	67.3	65.3	2	1	3.8	BE	Patrick Ewing #40
57	Wake Forest 1996	66	64.7	2	1	3.5	ACC	Tim Duncan #8
58	Purdue 2024	71	59.3	2	1	3.5	B10	Zach Edey
59	Michigan 1989	70.5	78.5	0	2	3.2	B10	Glen Rice
60	UTEP (Texas Western) 1966	63.7	66	2	1	3.2	CUSA	Bobby Joe Hill
61	Syracuse 2003	76	74	2	1	3	ACC	Carmelo Anthony #69
62	Long Island University 1939			0	0	3	NEC	Irv Torgoff (F)
63	City College of New York (CCNY) 1950			0	0	3	old	Floyd Lane
64	Texas 2023	85.8	82.8	3	1	2.9	SEC	Marcus Carr
65	North Carolina 1998	80.7	83.7	2	1	2.8	ACC	Vince Carter
66	Michigan St. 2009	71.3	71.9	6	3	2.7	B10	Draymond Green
67	Kansas 2022	79.2	76.8	4	1	2.5	B12	Ochai Agbaji
68	Oklahoma 1985	75.3	73.8	3	1	2.4	SEC	Wayman Tisdale
69	Syracuse 1987	72.3	68.7	2	1	2.3	ACC	Rony Seikaly
70	Arizona 2015	75.3	70.5	3	1	2.1	B12	Stanley Johnson
71	Cincinnati 2002	72.8	71.5	2	2	2	B12	Jason Maxiell
72	Loyola Marymount 1990	112.3	108.3	1	2	2	WCC	Bo Kimble
73	North Carolina 1972	76.5	72	1	1	1.8	ACC	Bob McAdoo #45
74	Seton Hall 1989	78	78	1	1	1.8	BE	John Morton
75	Florida 2006	74.4	72	5	3	1.8	SEC	Joakim Noah
76	USC 2021	73.7	70.7	2	1	1.7	B10	Evan Mobley
77	Illinois 1989	87	84	2	1	1.5	B10	Nick Anderson
78	Michigan 2013	70.3	69.7	1	2	1.5	B10	Trey Burke
79	Connecticut 2011	88	92	0	1	1.5	BE	Kemba Walker
80	Duke 1986	106	108	0	1	1.3	ACC	Johnny Dawkins
81	Indiana 1981	72.7	72.3	2	1	1.2	B10	Isiah Thomas #27
82	Providence 1987	66	64.5	1	1	1.2	BE	Billy Donovan
83	Tulsa 2000	75	70.7	2	1	1	Amer	David Shelton
84	Arizona 1997	68.7	71	2	1	1	B12	Mike Bibby
85	Kansas 1957	67.8	71.4	3	2	1	B12	Wilt Chamberlain #5
86	Pittsburgh 2009	60	62.3	1	3	0.9	ACC	DeJuan Blair
87	Colorado 2021	79.7	76.5	5	1	0.9	B12	McKinley Wright
88	Texas Tech 2019	65.6	67.2	3	2	0.9	B12	Jarrett Culver
89	Duke 2022	80.3	76	2	1	0.8	ACC	Wendell Moore
90	Minnesota 1977	69.5	68.5	1	1	0.8	B10	Kevin McHale #39
91	Ohio St. 2007	70.2	71.4	2	3	0.8	B10	Greg Oden
92	Florida 2025	74	69	1	0	0.8	SEC	Walter Clayton Jr. 1st team
93	Tennessee 2023	69.3	68.7	2	1	0.8	SEC	Santiago Vescovi
94	Marquette 1977	66	61.5	1	1	0.6	BE	Butch Lee
95	Alabama 2023	78	79	0	1	0.5	SEC	Brandon Miller
96	LSU 1992	82.5	81	1	1	0.4	SEC	Shaquille O'Neal #11
97	Rutgers 1976	84.8	77.5	3	1	0.3	B10	Phil Sellers
98	Kansas 1952	64	79	0	1	0.3	B12	Clyde Lovelette
99	Georgetown 2007	76.7	75.3	1	2	0.3	BE	Roy Hibbert
100	Winthrop 2017	87	66	1	0	0.3	BSth	Craig Bradshaw
101	Marquette 2023	85.7	83	2	1	0	BE	Tyler Kolek
102	Georgia Tech 2004	62.6	67.4	2	3	-0.1	ACC	Jarrett Jack
103	Marquette 2003	73.3	74	2	2	-0.1	BE	Dwyane Wade #30
104	Kentucky 1948	71	81.5	1	1	-0.2	SEC	Alex Groza
105	North Carolina 2022	75.7	68	2	1	-0.3	ACC	Armando Bacot
106	Missouri 1982	73.7	73.3	2	1	-0.3	SEC	Steve Stipanovich
107	Northern Iowa 2015	84.3	83	3	1	-0.4	MVC	Seth Tuttle
108	Long Beach St. 1972	84	66	1	0	-0.5	BW	Ed Ratleff
109	Iowa 2021	79.5	70.5	1	1	-0.6	B10	Luka Garza
110	Massachusetts 1996	77.8	77.3	3	1	-0.6	MAC	Marcus Camby
111	Indiana St. 1979	79.7	81	1	2	-0.7	MVC	Larry Bird #7
112	Davidson 2008	66.4	70.2	1	4	-0.8	A10	Stephen Curry #16
113	Connecticut 1999	60.5	73	0	2	-0.8	BE	Richard Hamilton
114	Vanderbilt 1993	72.5	74.5	1	1	-0.8	SEC	Bill McCaffrey
115	California 1959	69	71	0	1	-1	ACC	Jack Grout
116	South Carolina 2017	65.3	65.7	1	2	-1	SEC	Sindarius Thornwell
117	Oklahoma St. 2004	68.8	71	1	3	-1.3	B12	John Lucas
118	Georgetown 1995	69	73	0	1	-1.3	BE	Allen Iverson #31
119	Creighton 2023	86	86	1	1	-1.4	BE	Ryan Kalkbrenner
120	SMU 2017	72.5	71.5	1	1	-1.6	ACC	Semi Ojeleye
121	Maryland 1984	69.5	68.5	1	1	-1.6	B10	Len Bias
122	Oregon St. 1982	71.5	73	1	1	-1.6	p12	A.C. Green
123	St. John's 1985	75	76	0	1	-1.8	BE	Chris Mullin
124	Drake 1969	74.5	74.5	1	1	-1.8	MVC	Willie McCarter
125	Gonzaga 2023	81.5	80.5	1	1	-1.8	p12	Drew Timme
126	LSU 2006	66.3	75	1	2	-1.8	SEC	Glen Davis
127	Indiana 2002	67.3	72.8	1	3	-1.9	B10	Jared Jeffries
128	Dayton 2020	81.5	80.5	1	1	-2	A10	Obi Toppin
129	Detroit Mercy 1960	80	79.5	1	1	-2	Horz	Dave DeBusschere
130	San Diego St. 2011	69.3	71.8	2	2	-2	p12	Kawhi Leonard #33
131	Temple 1958	66	68.5	1	1	-2.2	Amer	Guy Rodgers
132	Kansas St. 2023	81	74	1	1	-2.2	B12	Markquis Nowell
133	Virginia 1981	61	72	0	1	-2.3	ACC	Ralph Sampson
134	Purdue 1969	86	87	0	1	-2.3	B10	Rick Mount
135	Xavier 2023	72	69.3	2	1	-2.3	BE	Jack Nunge
136	Marquette 1971	70	72.7	1	2	-2.3	BE	Jim Chones
137	Maryland 2002	67	76.3	1	3	-2.4	B10	Derik Queen, NBA #13
138	Kansas St. 2008	75	75.5	1	1	-2.4	B12	Michael Beasley
139	South Carolina 1973	66	72	0	1	-2.5	SEC	Alex English #79
140	Arizona 2025			0	0	-3	B12	Caleb Love
141	Dartmouth 1944	61	67.5	1	1	-3	Ivy	Dick McGuire
142	UNLV 1987	64	82	0	1	-3	MWC	Armen Gilliam
143	Holy Cross 1950	82.3	83.7	1	2	-3	PL	Bob Cousy #34
144	Stanford 2008	79.7	79	2	1	-3.2	ACC	Brook Lopez
145	St. Bonaventure 1970	64	74	0	1	-3.3	A10	Bob Lanier
146	Alabama 1977	70	71	0	1	-3.3	SEC	Reggie King
147	West Virginia 2010	70.3	76	1	3	-3.4	B12	Kevin Jones
148	Bowling Green 1963	75.5	80.5	1	1	-3.4	MAC	Nate Thurmond
149	UCLA 2006	66	72.4	2	3	-3.6	B10	Jordan Farmar
150	Iowa St. 2014	73	75.5	1	1	-3.6	B12	DeAndre Kane
151	Stephen F. Austin 2016	91	84	1	1	-3.6	Slnd	Thomas Walkup
152	St. Joe's 2004	68.3	75.7	1	2	-3.8	A10	Jameer Nelson
153	Florida St. 1993	76	78	0	1	-3.8	ACC	Charlie Ward
154	West Virginia 1959	68	69	0	1	-3.8	B12	Jerry West #19
155	Oklahoma 2016	60.3	67.3	1	3	-3.9	SEC	Buddy Hield
156	UCLA 1987	78	72.5	1	1	-4	B10	Reggie Miller #51
157	Tennessee 1977	76	83	1	1	-4	SEC	Bernard King
158	Washington 2006	98	99	0	1	-4.3	B10	Brandon Roy
159	DePaul 1945	51	55	0	1	-4.3	BE	George Mikan #28
160	St. Mary's 2023	83	84	1	1	-4.4	WCC	Logan Johnson
161	Villanova 1950	65	85	0	1	-4.5	BE	Paul Arizin
162	Mississippi 2001	56	67	0	1	-4.5	SEC	Justin Reed
163	Loyola-IL 1963	51	73	0	2	-4.8	A10	Jerry Harkness
164	St. John's 2025	80	78	1	0	-4.8	BE	RJ Luis 2nd team
165	Idaho 1982	60	52	1	0	-4.8	BSky	Gordie Herbert
166	Buffalo 2019	82	84	0	1	-4.8	MAC	CJ Massinburg
167	Texas 2003	68.7	76.3	1	2	-4.8	SEC	T.J. Ford
168	Miami 2013	67	75	0	1	-5	ACC	Shane Larkin
169	North Carolina 1957	76	89	0	2	-5	ACC	Lennie Rosenbluth
170	Wofford 2019	81	84	0	1	-5	SC	Fletcher Magee
171	Auburn 1984	71.5	77	1	1	-5	SEC	Charles Barkley #22
172	Fordham 1971	75	62	1	0	-5.3	A10	Charlie Yelverton
173	Miami 1965	104	108	0	1	-5.3	ACC	Rick Barry #38
174	Iowa 2001	71	75.3	1	2	-5.3	B10	Reggie Evans
175	Syracuse 1966	66	80	0	1	-5.5	ACC	Dave Bing
176	Wichita St. 2013	64.3	71.3	1	2	-5.5	Amer	Fred VanVleet
177	Brigham Young 1981	67	77	0	1	-5.5	B12	Danny Ainge
178	Iona 1980	66	56	1	0	-5.5	MAAC	Jeff Ruland
179	Nevada 2004	82	84	0	1	-5.5	MWC	Nick Fazekas
180	Colorado St. 2024	81	82	0	1	-5.5	p12	Isaiah Stevens
181	Arizona St. 2009	68	73	1	1	-5.6	B12	James Harden #50
182	Notre Dame 1981	68	74	0	1	-5.8	ACC	Orlando Woolridge
183	Utah 1998	69	79	0	1	-5.8	B12	Andre Miller
184	Seton Hall 2020	78	80	0	1	-5.8	BE	Myles Powell
185	St. Louis 1952	80	79	1	0	-6	A10	Bob Koch
186	Georgia Tech 1990	64	82	0	1	-6	ACC	Dennis Scott
187	Navy 1986	61	77	0	1	-6	PL	David Robinson #25
188	Texas A&M 2007	60	77	0	1	-6	SEC	Acie Law
189	Arkansas 1978	58	79	0	1	-6	sec	Sidney Moncrief
190	George Mason 2006	59.3	67	0	3	-6.2	A10	Jai Lewis
191	Oregon St. 1990	75	75.5	1	1	-6.2	p12	Gary Payton #42
192	VCU 1985	76	85	0	1	-6.3	A10	Calvin Duncan
193	TCU 2023	77	79	0	1	-6.3	B12	JaKobe Coles
194	Central Florida 2019	70	74	0	1	-6.3	b12	Joey Graham
195	LSU 1953	73.7	74.3	2	1	-6.3	SEC	Bob Pettit #35
196	Marquette 2011	82	87	0	1	-6.5	BE	Jimmy Butler
197	North Carolina Wilmington 2003	88.5	79	2	0	-6.6	CAA	Devontae Cacok
198	Boston College 2006	72	76	0	1	-6.8	ACC	Jared Dudley
199	UCLA 2021	81	90	0	1	-6.8	B10	Jaime Jaquez
200	Villanova 1985	65	72	0	1	-6.8	BE	Ed Pinckney
201	UC San Diego 2025	89	76	1	0	-6.8	BW	Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones
202	Mississippi St. 2005	69	71	0	1	-6.8	SEC	Lawrence Roberts
203	Georgia 1982	70	78	1	1	-6.8	SEC	Dominique Wilkins #36
204	Louisville 1968	68	73.7	2	1	-7	ACC	Wes Unseld #48
205	Arizona St. 1980	64	79	0	1	-7	B12	Byron Scott
206	UTEP 1970	73	70.5	1	1	-7	CUSA	Tiny Archibald #77
207	Canisius 1957			0	0	-7	MAAC	Hank Nowak
208	Mississippi 2025			0	0	-7	SEC	Sean Pedulla
209	Seattle 1958	67.5	76	0	2	-7	WCC	Elgin Baylor #20
210	Florida St. 1968	62	63	1	1	-7.2	ACC	Dave Cowens #61
211	Miami 2023	80.3	88.3	2	1	-7.3	ACC	Norchad Omier
212	Notre Dame 1970	67.3	81.3	1	2	-7.3	ACC	Austin Carr
213	Kansas 1988	58	67	0	1	-7.3	B12	Danny Manning
214	Ball St. 1990	72	69	1	0	-7.3	MAC	Paris McCurdy
215	La Salle 1954	67	76	0	1	-7.5	A10	Tom Gola
216	Virginia Tech 1986	81	87	0	1	-7.5	ACC	Dell Curry
217	Penn St. 2018	82	90	0	1	-7.5	B10	Tony Carr
218	Oklahoma St. 1946	80	82	0	1	-7.5	B12	Bob Kurland
219	Wyoming 1943	60	73	0	1	-7.5	MWC	Ken Sailors
220	North Carolina St. 2024	69.5	72	1	1	-7.6	ACC	DJ Burns
221	Providence 1960	74.5	77.5	1	1	-7.6	BE	Lenny Wilkens #65
222	Clemson 1987	77	97	0	1	-7.8	ACC	Hal Greer #64
223	Rhode Island 2017	76	88	0	2	-8	A10	Jared Terrell and Coach Danny Hurley
224	Marquette 1994	70	80.5	1	1	-8	BE	Jim McIlvaine
225	Creighton 2014	66.3	80	0	3	-8	BE	Doug McDermott
226	Arkansas 2025			0	0	-8	SEC	Adou Thiero
227	Arkansas 2021	68	83	0	1	-8	sec	JD Notae
228	Florida Gulf Coast 2013	63	58	1	0	-8	UAC	Bernard Thompson
229	Duquesne 2024	78.5	74	1	1	-8.2	A10	Jimmy Clark
230	Louisville 1980	52	82	0	1	-8.3	ACC	Darrell Griffith top 100
231	Nebraska 2014	72	75	0	1	-8.3	B10	Terran Petteway
232	Cleveland St 1986	114	112	1	0	-8.3	Horz	Clinton Smith
233	Wake Forest 2005	64.3	85.3	0	3	-8.5	ACC	Chris Paul #29
234	UAB 1982	78	80	0	1	-8.5	Amer	Oliver Robinson
235	San Diego St. 2023	78	84	0	1	-8.5	p12	Jaedon LeDee
236	Vermont 2020	55	62	0	1	-8.8	AE	Anthony Lamb
237	Marquette 1955	74	86	0	1	-8.8	BE	Terry Rand
238	Kentucky 1970	116	138	0	1	-8.8	SEC	Dan Issel
239	Dayton 1967	69	88	0	1	-9	A10	Don May
240	Florida Atlantic 2023	64	77	0	1	-9	Amer	Johnell Davis
241	Brigham Young 2025	69	72	0	1	-9	B12	Egor Demin, NBA #8
242	Princeton 1965	62	79	0	1	-9	Ivy	Bill Bradley
243	Bradley 1954	60	72	0	1	-9	MVC	Bob Carney
244	Utah St. 2003	82	86	0	1	-9.3	p12	Desmond Penigar
245	Northwestern 2017	70	85	0	1	-9.5	B10	Vic Law
246	Kent St. 2002	76	89	0	1	-9.5	MAC	Antonio Gates
247	Louisiana Tech 1985	76.5	86	1	1	-9.6	CUSA	Karl Malone #23
248	VCU 2011	60.3	71.3	0	3	-9.8	A10	Bradford Burgess
249	New Mexico 1974	68	95	0	1	-9.8	MWC	Bernard Hardin top 100
250	Texas Southern 2013	77	68	2	0	-9.8	SWAC	Fred Sturdivant
251	California 1993	65	75	0	1	-10.8	ACC	Jason Kidd #43
252	Creighton 2020	72	106	0	1	-11	BE	Ty-Shon Alexander
253	LSU 1970	66	67	0	1	-11	SEC	Pete Maravich #54
254	Gonzaga 1984	73	76	1	1	-11.2	p12	John Stockton #24
255	Illinois 2025	58	63	0	1	-11.3	B10	Kasparas Jakucionis (20th) & Will Riley (21) NBA picks
256	Liberty 2023	78	80	0	1	-11.3	CUSA	Darius McGhee
257	Oklahoma 2025	79	80	0	1	-11.3	SEC	Jeremiah Fears, NBA #7
258	Santa Clara 1996	82	85	0	1	-11.3	WCC	Steve Nash #37
259	Morehead St. 2011	87	80.5	1	1	-11.4	OVC	Kenneth Faried
260	Butler 2010	54.7	76.3	0	3	-12	BE	Gordon Hayward
261	James Madison 2024	72.3	77	1	2	-12	SB	Terrence Edwards
262	Loyola-Chicago 2018	59.3	75	0	3	-12.3	A10	Cameron Krutwig
263	Murray St. 2019	78	85	0	1	-12.3	MVC	Ja Morant
264	Centenary 1976	64	69	0	1	-12.3	None	Robert Parish #63
265	VCU 2025	52	60	0	1	-12.5	A10	Max Shulga, NBA #57
266	Marshall 1956	71	76	0	1	-12.5	SB	Hal Greer #64
267	South Dakota St. 2012	66	87	0	1	-12.5	Sum	Nate Wolters
268	Maryland 2025	43	73	0	1	-12.8	B10	Derik Queen
269	Drake 2025	56	66	0	1	-12.8	CAA	Bennett Stirtz Con MVP (Larry Bird Award)
270	New Mexico 2025	62	75	0	1	-13	MWC	Donovan Dent and Nelly Jr. Joseph
271	McNeese 2025	112	114	0	1	-13	Slnd	Javohn Garcia, Conf POY
272	UAB 2025	76	84	0	1	-13.5	Amer	Yaxel Lendeborg, Sr.
273	Utah St. 2024	67	73	0	1	-13.5	p12	Great Osobor
274	Texas 2007	62	82	0	1	-13.5	SEC	Kevin Durant #12
275	Oral Roberts 2021	69	61	1	0	-13.5	Sum	Max Abmas
276	Washington St. 2008	64	92	0	1	-13.8	p12	Kyle Weaver
277	Richmond 2011	54	77	0	1	-14.3	A10	Justin Harper
278	Southern Illinois 1967	73	75	0	1	-14.3	MVC	Walt Frazier #41
279	Grand Canyon 2024	79	84	0	1	-14.3	MWC	Tyon Grant-Foster
280	Massachusetts 1971	57.5	68	1	1	-15.4	MAC	Julius Erving #14
281	Yale 2024	73	84	0	1	-15.5	Ivy	Danny Wolf
282	UC Irvine 2025	66	84	0	1	-15.8	BW	Jurian Dixon
283	Vanderbilt 2025			0	0	-16	SEC	Jason Edwards
284	North Carolina 1965	65	80	0	1	-16.8	ACC	Billy Cunningham #72
285	Weber St. 2010	69.7	80	0	3	-17.2	BSky	Damian Lillard #75
286	Oakland 2024	72	75	0	1	-17.3	Horz	Jack Gohlke
287	Chattanooga 2025	72	70	1	0	-17.3	SC	Honor Huff, all conf
288	Niagara 1970	66.5	83	0	2	-19.4	MAAC	Calvin Murphy
289	Hampton 2001	70	72	0	1	-20	CAA	Tarvis Williams
290	Norfolk St. 2012	60	62	0	1	-20.8	MEAC	Kyle O'Quinn
291	Troy  2025	61	69	0	1	-20.8	SB	Tayton Conerway, Conf POY
292	St. Peter's 2022	39	77	0	1	-21.3	MAAC	Doug Edert
293	NYU 1948	52.5	83	0	2	-22.2	None	Dolph Schayes #70
294	High Point 2025			0	0	-24	BSTH	Kimani Hamilton
295	Fairleigh Dickinson 2005	77	93	0	1	-24	NEC	Gordon Klaiber
296	Robert Morris 2025			0	0	-25	Horz	Amarion Dickerson
297	Princeton 2023	50	102	0	1	-25	Ivy	Tosan Evbuomwan
298	Mount St. Mary's 2025			0	0	-34	MAAC	Dola Adebayo
299	Montana 2025			0	0	-40	BSKY	Joe Pridgen
300	Alabama State 2025			0	0	-43	SWAC	Amarr Knox