Top 2016 Teams/Players: American Athletic (Ranked 7)

We hope Marquette can pick up one of the top available players from our rankings here. Tonight we run through the competition - ranking all the conferences competing with the Big East for bids, and ranking both their teams and top 40 players.

To some degree, the Big East competition as the football teams that left. While three teams still look very bad, South Florida has one of the top JUCOs and we have Houston slated to make one of the biggest jumps in the country. The American Athletic fell way behind the Big East in the second year after the split, but they look to have 6-8 strong teams depending on how those two go.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
7	American Athletic	Amer			21.98
19		Cincinnati	23--11	38.66	32.54
27		Southern Methodist	27--7	32.58	30.29
43		Memphis	18--14	32.35	26.80
53		Houston	13--19	38.39	25.39
57		Connecticut	20--15	26.67	25.04
62		Temple	26--11	24.15	24.57
70		Tulsa	23--11	24.05	22.90
121		South Florida	9--23	26.91	17.25
186		Central Florida	12--18	19.80	13.95
194		East Carolina	14--19	14.83	13.25
249		Tulane	15--16	8.61	9.83
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
36	Clark, Gary 11	Cincinnati	6'7	2 So	7.731
71	Thomas, TaShawn	Houston	6'8	4 Sr	6.68
99	Caupain, Troy 10	Cincinnati	6'3	3 Jr	6.228
110	Moore, Nic 11	Southern Methodist	5'9	4 Sr	6.03
136	Hamilton, Daniel 5	Connecticut	6'7	2 So	5.76
139	Harrison, Shaquille 3	Tulsa	6'4	4 Sr	5.73
152	Miller, Shonn	Connecticut	6'7	3 Jr	5.6
154	Montero, Luis	South Florida	6'7	3 Jr	5.6
163	Ellis, Octavius 2	Cincinnati	6'10	4 Sr	5.463
182	Brown, Sterling 3	Southern Methodist	6'6	3 Jr	5.27
183	Brimah, Amida 35	Connecticut	7'0	3 Jr	5.25
185	Woodard, James 10	Tulsa	6'3	4 Sr	5.24
193	House, Danuel	Houston	6'7	3 Jr	5.15
241	Kennedy, Markus 5	Southern Methodist	6'9	4 Sr	4.89
255	Tyson, B.J. 21	East Carolina	6'3	2 So	4.79
272	Egbunu, John	South Florida	6'10	2 So	4.7
310	Wilson, Damien	Memphis	6'6	3 Jr	4.45
333	Outlaw, Tyrone	South Florida/Maybe	6'6	3 Jr	4.3
359	Cobb, Farad 22	Cincinnati	6'0	4 Sr	4.149
370	Bond, Jaylen 15	Temple	6'8	4 Sr	4.09
372	Enechionyia, Obi 0	Temple	6'8	2 So	4.08
376	Burrell, Trahson 0	Memphis	6'6	4 Sr	4.07
395	Efianayi, Tanksley	Central Florida	6'6	3 Jr	4
421	Lawson, Dedric	Memphis	6'8	1 Fr	3.91
422	Gray, Rob	Houston	6'2	3 Jr	3.9
424	Crawford, Markel 1	Memphis	6'4	2 So	3.9
428	Ray, Rashad 5	Tulsa	5'10	4 Sr	3.89
457	Brown, Josh 1	Temple	6'3	3 Jr	3.76
462	Taylor, B.J. 1	Central Florida	6'2	2 So	3.72
469	Goodwin, Shaq 2	Memphis	6'9	4 Sr	3.68
548	Moore, Ben 0	Southern Methodist	6'8	3 Jr	3.38
558	Woodson, Avery 20	Memphis	6'2	3 Jr	3.33
600	Dupree, Xavier	Houston	6'9	3 Jr	3.2
640	Henriquez, Adonys 10	Central Florida	6'6	2 So	3.05
651	Barnes, LeRon 4	Houston	6'6	4 Sr	3.02
689	Whisnant, Terry 0	East Carolina	6'3	4 Sr	2.95
719	Lawrence, Jermaine	Cincinnati	6'9	2 So	2.889
721	Woodson, Dominic	Memphis	6'10	2 So	2.88
754	DeCosey, Quenton 25	Temple	6'5	4 Sr	2.8
856	Lawson, Keelon	Memphis	6'6	1 Fr	2.56

These are the top 40 players in the conference based on the rankings at www.valueaddbasketball.com. The team rankings are 50% based on the sum of each team’s Value Add ratings and 50% based on last year (since better teams typically replenish after losing stars). With over 4000 players projected in the database, we WELCOME all corrections in the comments field.

Value Add was first introduced on www.crackedsidewalks.com, and calculates how many points better each player is worth to his team over how good they would be if he was replaced. The projections measure the standard improvement in a player between his freshman, sophomore, junior and senior seasons, and the evaluation of incoming freshman and JUCO players.