| 100% | MAVERICKS | 9 | Dallas basketball team that's owned by 48-Across |
| 40% | BAYLOR | 6 | Team that defeated 45-Across to win the 2019 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship |
| 39% | AMANA | 5 | Appliance brand that's owned by Whirlpool |
| 39% | LSUTIGERS | 9 | Team that beat the Iowa Hawkeyes to win 2023 NCAA women's basketball championship, led by NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player Angel Reese (2 wds.) |
| 38% | CONDO | 5 | Apartment that's owned by the occupant, for short |
| 37% | BAYLOR | 6 | Team that won the 2021 NCAA men's basketball tournament |
| 37% | WARRIORS | 8 | Basketball team that moved from Philadelphia to the Golden State's Bay Area in 1962 |
| 37% | HARLEM | 6 | ___ Globetrotters (exhibition basketball team that was actually founded on Chicago's South Side) |
| 36% | TRAILBLAZERS | 12 | Portland NBA team that 17-Across owned: 2 wds. |
| 36% | NOTREDAME | 9 | Team that won the 2018 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship (2 wds.) |
| 36% | LOUISIANATECH | 13 | Team that won the inaugural NCAA Women's Basketball Championship (2 wds.) |
| 35% | HIS | 3 | Owned by that guy |
| 35% | HIS | 3 | Owned by that fellow |
| 35% | HIS | 3 | Owned by that gent |
| 35% | TENNESSEE | 9 | Team that won eight NCAA Women's Basketball Championships under coach Pat Summitt |
| 35% | CENTER | 6 | Basketball position that's usually filled by a very tall person |
| 35% | MAV | 3 | Dallas basketball team playing in 3-Down, for short |
| 34% | 2UP | 3 | Like a team that's ahead by a safety |
| 34% | HAWKS | 5 | Basketball team that moved from St. Louis to Atlanta in 1968 |
| 34% | ROCKETS | 7 | Basketball team that moved from San Diego to Houston in 1971 |
| 34% | PISTONS | 7 | Basketball team that moved from Fort Wayne to Detroit in 1957 |
| 33% | CLIPPERS | 8 | Basketball team that moved from San Diego to Los Angeles in 1984 |
| 33% | CLIPPERS | 8 | Los Angeles basketball team that hasn't retired any numbers |
| 33% | AOL | 3 | ISP that's now owned by Verizon subsidiary Oath |
| 33% | SARAHCONNOR | 11 | Action hero played by 48-Across in a film series that began with 15-Across (2 wds.) |
| 33% | ALABAMA | 7 | Team defeated by 48-Across in the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship |
| 32% | MAVS | 4 | Nickname for the basketball team from Dallas |
| 32% | TORONTO | 7 | ___ Raptors, Canadian basketball team that won their first NBA Championship in 2019 |
| 32% | IONA | 4 | College whose men's basketball team is coached by Rick Pitino |
| 32% | PURDUE | 6 | School whose basketball team (No. 1 seed) was upset by Fairleigh Dickinson's team (No. 16 seed) |