Congratulations to the 1999 South Region for having the best NBA talent of any Tournament region since 1997 according to our nonsense tournament. For the record, this is their entire roster of NBA players, with only one player disqualified because he was on another tournament team (Desmond Mason).  Baron Davis, Steve Francis, Michael Redd, Ron [...]

I know this lacks any sort of suspense, but I will go ahead and start by saying I agree with Bo that the South wins the title. I disagree with him, however, on the closeness of the game, as I think they’re quite a bit better than the Midwest side. Francis, Davis, Artest, and Redd [...]

Coming off the Heels of the blowout National Championship game last night, it’s time to declare a winner of the Best Region Tournament. The Matchup: 2001 Midwest (PG Kirk Hinrich, SG Gilbert Arenas, SF Josh Howard, F Richard Jefferson, F David West, Troy Murphy, Luke Walton, Brian Cook) vs.  1999 South (PG Baron Davis, G Steve Francis, [...]

Game 1 – 1997 Southeast 91 – 2001 Midwest 107: Paul Pierce has a solid but not dominant game in the opener with 17 and 10. Brad Miller was 1997′s high scorer with 19 but only pulled down 6 boards. Bibby and Mobley seemed to be the achilles heel’s as they both went 5-13 from [...]

I’m with Bo on the second semifinal. I think the Davis, Francis, Redd, Artest quartet is just too much for the ’98 East. I am, however, going to take the other side in the first semifinal. I argued for the 2001 Midwest yesterday, but today I believe they’ve met their match. I understand Bo’s logic, [...]

1997 Southeast (PG Mike Bibby, G Jason Terry, G/SF Cuttino Mobley, F Paul Pierce, C Brad Miller, Anthony Johnson, Brian Cardinal, Raef LaFrentz) vs. 2001 Midwest (PG Kirk Hinrich, SG Gilbert Arenas, SF Josh Howard, F Richard Jefferson, F David West, Troy Murphy, Luke Walton, Brian Cook) A very tight and interesting matchup as would be expected [...]

So although I think Pat made a superior case for the 2001 Midwest team to take the game, I decided I might as well try out the Sim Matchup engine on Whatifsports to decide the winner. I chose each player’s best single year for the Sim, and because I had to fill out rosters of [...]

I agree with Bo on the other three, so the only game I will talk about is 2000 East vs. 2001 Midwest, where I strongly disagree with his pick. Let’s just start out breaking down the matchup between the starters. First of all, Speedy Claxton is the 2000 Point Guard, and I think that’s a [...]

1997 Southeast (PG Mike Bibby, G Jason Terry, G/SF Cuttino Mobley, F Paul Pierce, C Brad Miller, Anthony Johnson, Brian Cardinal, Raef LaFrentz) vs. 2005 Syracuse (PG Raymond Felton, SG Randy Foye, SF Danny Granger, PF Charlie Villanueva, C David Lee, Kyle Lowry, Rashad McCants, Sean May) An interesting matchup. Because the ’97 squad is [...]

Well the only two matchups that are even debatable are the last two, so I won’t even bother commenting on the others. I’ll start with the game between Dwyane Wade’s 2003 Midwest team and Brandon Roy’s 2006 DC group. This one is really tough because both backcourts are just terrific. As good as Devin Harris [...]

Since I did end up deciding to include an extra four teams to make it a perfect 16-team bracket, placements were done by “seeding” the teams in chronological order, and then slotting the four leftover teams in spots where they wouldn’t be playing against their own year. I’ll say who I think would win the [...]

I’m going to ahead and give my opinion on which team is the best from each year with the understanding that Bo can overrule me wherever he’s sees fit. I’m going to start at 2008 and work backwards, which means if I choose a team with a certain player in a later year, I will [...]

Reading Chad Ford’s annual column highlighting the potential NBA prospects in each region of this year’s tournament got me thinking about which tournament region from the recent past had the most NBA talent. Of course it wouldn’t be any fun if we didn’t set it up like a tournament though, so that’s what I’m here [...]