HOOP NUTZ GAME  w/ GREAT COLLEGE TEAMS SET 3 CARDS (12 TEAMS)  $24.00

     

Find yourself immersed in a world of momentum changing 3 pointers, fast-breaks, steals, soul-crushing blocks, clutch free throws and last second buzzer beaters. Your decisions are dictated by your team's style of play. Are they built to shoot three's, or do they have a dominant big man to feed in the paint? Do they thrive in transition, or are they better off patiently working the ball up the court? You'll need to know your team if you want a shot at championship glory. 

CONTENTS: Court with Clock, Balls & Game Marker Discs; Action Charts Sheet; Instruction Booklet; 10-sided & 20-sided dice; 5 Stat Sheets and...

GREAT COLLEGE TEAMS COLLECTION SET III

A collection of the greatest teams in the history of college basketball. Play them against each other, or see how they match up against today's best!

1958-59 California Golden Bears: Defense wins championships. Coach Pete Newell's Bears limited opponents to only 51 points per game, and the coach's philosophy had a profound and lasting impact on a young student of the game named Bob Knight. In a Final Four renowned for featuring both Oscar Robertson and Jerry West, it was a relatively unknown Cal team that won the title by defeating West Virginia 71-70. Darrall Imhoff tipped in the winner for the Bears with 17 seconds remaining.

1961-62 Cincinnati Bearcats: With Paul Hogue, Tom Thacker and Tony Yates returning as starters from a defending national champion, expectations were high for Ed Jucker's team. A two-point win over Wooden and UCLA in the Final Four set up a second consecutive meeting in the title game against John Havlicek and Ohio State. The Bearcats won 71-59, heightening a bitter rivalry.

2003-04 Connecticut Huskies: No tournament opponent could stay with Ben Gordon and Emeka Okafor into the 40th minute but one, and that game came in the national semifinal. Facing a Duke team led by J.J. Redick and Luol Deng, the Huskies overcame Okafor's foul trouble and rallied from a late eight-point deficit to win 79-78. Jim Calhoun's men then defeated Georgia Tech 82-73 in the final to claim the program's second national championship.

2006-07 Florida Gators: With all five starters returning from a national championship team, big things were expected of Billy Donovan's Gators. Big things had to wait: Florida lost two of its first nine games, reeled off 17 wins in a row and then, rather remarkably, recorded a 1-3 stretch in late February. Maybe Corey Brewer, Al Horford and Joakim Noah just needed to make things interesting. Florida turned back Greg Oden, Mike Conley and Ohio State in the title game.

1986-87 Indiana Hoosiers: In the first year of the 3-point shot, Bob Knight adopted the new weapon with surprising efficiency. Steve Alford made 53 percent of his tries from beyond the arc, and his 7-of-10 shooting on 3s in the title game against Syracuse put teammate Keith Smart in position to hit the winner in the Hoosiers' 74-73 victory. IU reached that point by winning a series of games in the 40th minute, prevailing against Duke, LSU and UNLV by six, one and four points, respectively.

1977-78 Kentucky Wildcats: Jack Givens recorded possibly the finest title-game performance of any player not named Bill Walton, scoring 41 points on 18-of-27 (pre-3-point shot) shooting to give the Wildcats a 94-88 win over Duke. Joe B. Hall's balanced rotation also featured Rick Robey, Kyle Macy, James Lee and Mike Phillips.

2012-13 Louisville Cardinals: Entering the tournament as the overall No. 1 seed, the Cardinals moved through the bracket with relative ease before surviving a scare from suddenly unstoppable Michigan guard Spike Albrecht in the national final. George Mason transfer Luke Hancock earned Final Four most outstanding player honors. The title was subsequently vacated in 2018 in the wake of the NCAA's investigation into illicit recruiting and player benefits. Louisville is the first Division I team to vacate a title in the Final Four era.

2001-02 Maryland Terrapins: With a lineup featuring Juan Dixon, Lonny Baxter and Chris Wilcox, the Terrapins averaged 85 points and went 15-1 in the ACC before falling to NC State in the conference tournament. Whether that was the wake-up call Gary Williams' team needed, Maryland won every NCAA tournament game by eight points or more. In the final, the Terps turned back a surprising Indiana team led by Jared Jeffries and coached by Mike Davis.

1999-00 Michigan State Spartans: Tom Izzo's group closed the season with 11 straight wins where every opponent lost by nine points or more. Mateen Cleaves and fellow Flint products Morris Peterson and Charlie Bell ("the Flintstones") led the Spartans past Udonis Haslem and Florida 89-76 to win it all.

1992-93 North Carolina Tarheels: Dean Smith's Tar Heels won their games in 1992-93 by an average of nearly 18 points, as Eric Montross, George Lynch and Donald Williams all scored 14 points or better per game. UNC clinched the 77-71 win over Michigan in the championship game when Chris Webber called a timeout his team did not have.

1971-72 UCLA Bruins: The average final score of a UCLA game in 1971-72 was 95-64. The Bruins finished the season 30-0, having played only two games that were decided by single digits (one being UCLA's 81-76 victory over Florida State in the national championship game). Bill Walton made his collegiate debut and averaged a 21-point, 16-rebound double-double for the season, and Henry Bibby joined him on the consensus All-American first team. 

1965-66 Texas Western Miners: The school now known as UTEP made history in more ways than one. For the first time, a team with five black starters won the national title, a feat Don Haskins' Miners achieved by defeating an all-white Kentucky team 72-65 at Cole Field House, in College Park, Maryland. Bobby Joe Hill and Willie Worsley led Western to victory over Pat Riley and the Wildcats.