Super Bowl of All-Time College Teams - POY May Leads #2 All-Time 1976 Indiana past #1 All-Time 1972 UCLA, 72-68

Bill Walton's UCLA team's 6-year undefeated Value Add Basketball Game winning streak is over. An incredible back-and-forth game for our all-time championship came down to the final 1:30 to play in the game of teams coached by John Wooden and Bobby Knight (Indiana 1976).

The loss drops 1972 UCLA to 8-1, while 1976 Indiana improves to 7-1 and will move into the No. 1 spot in our all-time ranking of 300 Value Add Basketball Game teams. UCLA drew 24 fouls to only 14 for Indiana, but left the game at the free throw line, as Henry Bibby (80% or 1-16 of 20 free throw made) hit only 3 of 6, Bill Walton (70%, 1-14) hit 4 of 7 and Andy Hill (also 70%, 1-14) went 2 of 5 - a combined 9 of 18. Those three would have been expected to hit 4 more of those free throws which would have meant a tie game.

With 1972 UCLA trailing 62-65, the Bruins Larry Farmer came through with a blocked shot, but the Hoosiers star Scott May (23 points) grabbed the offensive rebound, and put it back in while being fouled to make it 68-62 Indiana after his free throw. May was the AP Player of the Year that season.

Bill Walton (18 points, drew five fouls on Kent Benson) drew a foul with 53 seconds left and hit one of two to cut it to 70-68, but May scored again at the other end and Indiana missed a last shot to leave the final 72-68 Indiana.

The Hoosiers, the last undefeated team in NCAA history, were #3 before destroying the #2 ranked 1975 UCLA 74-51. This game was much closer, with our reigning champs 1972 UCLA leading 55-50 with 7 minutes to play, but Indiana closed on a 22-13 offensive explosion to take over as our new champ.

Back-up center Rich Valavicius was a key as he had 6 points and 4 rebounds to help the subs take a 30-28 lead before the starters came in, then came back in for the closing possessions after Kent Benson fouled out guarding Bill Walton.

But the true key was that for the first time in nine games Walton was outplayed in a game, he was held to a surprisingly low 5 rebounds, while the true star was Indiana's star Scott May outscored him 23-16 by having 10 buckets including Indiana's only 3-pointer of the game. We admit the one 3-pointer was a fluke as the 3-point line was put in during May's NBA career and he was 0 or 8 on attempts - but we allocated a couple of 3-pointers made for college players who did not have a 3-point line in order to make the play between eras competitive. Centers form that era including Walton cannot hit a 3-pointer, but a few great centers like Walton have that range replaced by a basket plus fouled for potential traditional 3-point plays.

Pos	#2 Indiana 1976	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	NBA? Ht Actual Season
1-PG	Quinn Buckner	6	0	3	0	0	2	4	0	3	nba,6'3,8.9 Pts, 2.8 Reb
2-SG	Bob Wilkerson	6	0	3	0	0	4	2	0	4	nba,6'6,7.8 Pts, 4.9 Reb
3-SG	Tom Abernethy	6	0	3	0	0	10	0	0	1	nba,6'7,10.0 Pts, 5.3 Reb
4-PF	Scott May	23	1	9	2	3	6	1	0	3	nba,6'7,23.5 Pts, 7.7 Reb
5-C	Kent Benson	13	0	6	1	2	6	1	2	5	nba,6'10,17.3 Pts, 8.8 Reb
Pos	Indiana Bench	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	NBA? Ht Actual Season
1-PG	Jim Wisman	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	6'2,2.5 Pts, 0.8 Reb
2-SG	Jim Crews	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	6'5,3.3 Pts, 0.7 Reb
3-SG	Wayne Radford	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	nba,6'3,4.7 Pts, 2.1 Reb
4-PF	Mark Haymore	6	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'8,1.8 Pts, 2.2 Reb
5-C	Rich Valavicius	6	0	2	2	2	4	0	1	2	6'5,2.4 Pts, 1.8 Reb
	20 Turnovers	72	1	32	5	7	37	9	3	24
Pos	#1 UCLA 1972	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	NBA? Ht Actual Season
1-PG	Greg Lee	6	0	2	2	2	1	5	0	1	nba,6'4,8.7 Pts, 2.0 Reb
2-SG	Henry Bibby	10	1	2	3	6	6	1	0	1	nba,6'1,15.7 Pts, 3.5 Reb
3-SG	Larry Farmer	4	0	2	0	0	7	0	2	1	6'5,10.7 Pts, 5.5 Reb
4-PF	Jamaal Wilkes	14	2	3	2	2	4	1	0	3	nba,6'6,13.5 Pts, 8.2 Reb
5-C	Bill Walton	16	0	6	4	7	5	1	5	1	nba,6'11,21.1 Pts, 15.5 Reb
Pos	UCLA 1972	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	NBA? Ht Actual Season
1-PG	Andy Hill	4	0	1	2	5	1	1	0	1	6'02.7 Pts, 0.8 Reb
2-SG	Jon Chapman	4	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	6'5,1.6 Pts, 1.6 Reb
3-SG	Tommy Curtis	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	5'11,4.1 Pts, 2.1 Reb
4-PF	Larry Hollyfield	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	2	6'4,7.3 Pts, 3.3 Reb
5-C	Swen Nater	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	nba,6'11,6.7 Pts, 4.8 Reb
	17 Turnovers	68	3	23	13	22	31	10	8	14

Game updates here:

The reserves battled for the first 7 possessions after the 20-20 stat of the game, and Indiana took a 30-28 lead by the time the starters came in for the rest of the game. Here is the sheet at that point, followed by the preview set up.

In the line-ups showed in the box score the all-time Championship game of the 300 Value Add Basketball Game teams, we did have one change in the line-ups - we had a card for Bob Bender as one of the 10 Indiana players, but we noticed above review that Wayne Radford should have been in that spot. Both were off the bench that year, but Radford actually did play a season in the NBA, and actually did average twice as many points as Bender. Since we can only keep 10 players per team in the game, we did replace Bender's card but it is a minor adjustment in the game. 

The following are the line-ups as the game started. As the scoresheet shows, each team starts the game with 20 points and some other stats in place based on position. The game is played as though 22 possessions were already played in the game, and in the game you are playing the final 44+ possessions, depending on how many extra possessions are played in the final 9 possessions due to fast break steals or fouls.