Sweet 16: Pac12 beats ACC in OT (SB, Horizon eliminated)

In Anaheim, the Pac12 pulled out the only overtime game of the tournament with an 86-85 win over the ACC. UCLA’s Jordan Adams and Utah’s Delon Wright gave the Pac12 a big edge in the starting backcourt, and Arizona State’s Jordan Bachynski outdueled freshman phenom Jabari Parker (Duke) to offset the ACC’s edge on the starting front court.

It was a bad break that the 4- and 5-seeding forced the two teams to meet in the Elite 8, as both looked like they could have the best All-Conference teams in blowing out their first two opponents. In the Sweet 16, Lamar Patterson (Pitt shooting guard) and TJ Warren (NC State center) both dominated their counterparts in a 90-72 blowout of the Sun Belt.Meanwhile it was Oregon Center Joseph Young who had one of the most dominant performances of the tournament with a 10-2 scoring edge over his counterpart from Green Bay. However, Green Bay’s 7-foot center Alec Brown was the one dominant Horizon player in the game. 

In the mock tournament, all 32 conferences were seeded based on their ratings at www.kenpom.com, and then sent to their likely 2014 tournament sites. The “overtime” result in this game resulted because the game came up as an 85-85 tie but the Pac12 was given an extra point for leading by a fraction of a point.The top 10 players to date from each conference were pitted against their counterpart using the Value Add Predictor  to determine how many points each player would score against his counterpart, with the winning team advancing. All players can be looked up at www.valueaddbasketball.com. The following is the Elite 8 box score, followed by the box scores for the two Sweet 16 games that set up the Elite 8 showdown: 

All-Star (1st 5 starters)	ACC	85	Elite 8	All-Star (1st 5 starters)	P12	86
Tyler Ennis	Syracuse	8	PG	Delon Wright	Utah	10
Lamar Patterson	Pittsburgh	9	SG	Jordan Adams	UCLA	11
Jerian Grant	Notre Dame	13	SF	Nick Johnson	Arizona	12
Marcus Paige	North Carolina	12	PF	Spencer Dinwiddie	Colorado	12
TJ Warren	North Carolina St.	12	C	Joseph Young	Oregon	9
Ian Miller	Florida St.	5	PG-bu	Johnathan Loyd	Oregon	5
Quinn Cook	Duke	8	SG-bu	DaVonte Lacy	Washington St.	8
Trevor Cooney	Syracuse	6	SF-bu	Kyle Anderson	UCLA	5
KJ McDaniels	Clemson	6	PF-bu	Josh Scott	Colorado	5
Jabari Parker	Duke	6	C-bu	Jordan Bachynski	Arizona St.	9

All-Star (1st 5 starters)	ACC	90	Sweet 16	All-Star (1st 5 starters)	SB	72
Tyler Ennis	Syracuse	8	PG	Elfrid Payton	Louisiana Lafayette	6
Lamar Patterson	Pittsburgh	13	SG	RJ Hunter	Georgia St.	9
Jerian Grant	Notre Dame	13	SF	Brandon Edwards	Texas Arlington	14
Marcus Paige	North Carolina	12	PF	Augustine Rubit	South Alabama	10
TJ Warren	North Carolina St.	10	C	Shawn Long	Louisiana Lafayette	6
Ian Miller	Florida St.	7	PG-bu	Ryan Harrow	Georgia St.	5
Quinn Cook	Duke	7	SG-bu	Kasey Shepherd	Louisiana Lafayette	5
Trevor Cooney	Syracuse	6	SF-bu	Curtis Washington	Georgia St.	4
KJ McDaniels	Clemson	6	PF-bu	Will Neighbour	Arkansas Little Rock	4
Jabari Parker	Duke	8	C-bu	Kirk Van Slyke	Arkansas St.	9

All-Star (1st 5 starters)	P12	86	Sweet 16	All-Star (1st 5 starters)	Horz	67
Delon Wright	Utah	13	PG	Keifer Sykes	Wisconsin Green Bay	9
Jordan Adams	UCLA	10	SG	Kendrick Perry	Youngstown St.	10
Nick Johnson	Arizona	8	SF	Duke Mondy	Oakland	6
Spencer Dinwiddie	Colorado	13	PF	Bryn Forbes	Cleveland St.	11
Joseph Young	Oregon	10	C	Jordan Fouse	Wisconsin Green Bay	2
Johnathan Loyd	Oregon	5	PG-bu	Charlie Lee	Cleveland St.	4
DaVonte Lacy	Washington St.	8	SG-bu	LaVonte Dority	Valparaiso	6
Kyle Anderson	UCLA	8	SF-bu	Travis Bader	Oakland	6
Josh Scott	Colorado	6	PF-bu	Jon Harris	Cleveland St.	4
Jordan Bachynski	Arizona St.	5	C-bu	Alec Brown	Wisconsin Green Bay	9