Friday, February 20, 2026

All-Time NIT Final Four - Dartmouth '44 vs Detroit Mercy '60 and UNC Wilmington '03 vs N. Iowa 2015

Having settled our two big tournaments with 1976 Indiana claiming the all-time title and 1950 City College of New York claiming the title of newly created teams - we go the the Mid-Majors or a Final Four of Champions of the Non-Power Conferences.

The All-Time NIT Final Four features, and we did update the Dartmouth starting line-up of all future NBA players and also corrected the UNC Wilmington team to show it was actually the 2017 team rather than 2003 team - both of whom almost pulled off massive NCAA upsets against ACC teams.  All teams are now current in the Value Add Basketball Game.

Dartmouth '44 and friends is the one team that includes a compilation of players including two of the greatest coaches of all-time in Dick and Al McGuire - and Dick actually did play on the team but we added his brother and picked players we could find enough stats on from throughout a few season vs Detroit Mercy '60 and one of the greatest players of all time Dave DeBusschere.

While he is one of the 75 greatest players of all time, but one of the greatest cards in the game is Devontae Cacok - who hit 80% of his field goals that year and makes a shot on a 1-13, if fouled on 14-17, and only misses on 18-20.

UNC Wilmington '03 came one second away from stunning defending national champions Maryland despite only making seven 2-pointers and leading until a last second Maryland heave avoided upset will play, however we had mislabeled and actually choice UNC Wilmington '17 with fugure NBA player Devontae Cacok for the team - which led UVa by 15 points in the game but lost in the closing minutes - they will go up against against N. Iowa 2015 which featured Seth Tuttle - hailed by many analytics including our Value Add Basketball Rankings at the time as one of the top 10 players in the country.

Dartmouth '44Detroit Mercy 1960N. Iowa 2015UNC Wilmington 2017
Dick McGuire nbaRay Albee 14.4 ppgDeon MitchellDenzel Ingram 14.6 ppg
George Munroe nba,AA,82% FTLarry Hughes 11.7 ppg, 8.1 RebMatt BohannonAmbrose Mosley
Al McGuire nba St. JohnsGeorge HegerJeremy MorganChris Flemmings 15.8 ppg
Gus Broberg aa, 80% FTDave DeBusschere 25.6 ppg, 20.0 reb, nbaMarvin SingletonC.J. Bryce 17.4 ppg
Audie Brindley nbaCharlie North 19.8 Pts, 14.2 RebSeth Tuttle AA,15.3 ppg, 6.9 rebDevontae Cacok nba
Ed LeedeTom VillemureWes WashpunJordon Talley
Lionel Baxter MarineFrank ChickowskiWyatt LohausJaQuel Richmond
Thomas Killick MarineBob WrightPaul JespersonJaylen Fornes
Joseph VancisinJohn ParkerNate BussMarcus Bryan
Bob GaleDick DylusBennett KochChuck Ogbodo


Here are the cards:








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