Top 2016 Teams/Players: Athlantic Sun (Ranked 30)

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. 

The ASun has pulled some stunning upsets in the tournament the last few years. While they have no players in the top 10% of all players (top 40), North Florida looks like the team that should take the title fairly easily and take a shot at somebody big. We have all five of their players projected to be among the most valuable eight players in the league.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
30	Athlantic Sun	ASun			8.40
131		North Florida	23--12	15.27	16.56
227		Florida Gulf Coast	22--11	8.67	11.08
235		South Carolina UpSt.	24--12	8.33	10.91
271		Northern Kentucky	13--17	6.65	8.78
311		Lipscomb	14--17	5.41	6.50
318		Jacksonville	10--22	7.65	6.13
337		Stetson	9--22	3.90	3.75
342		Kennesaw St.	10--22	3.81	3.52
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
413	Davenport, Chris 35	North Florida	6'8	3 Jr	3.94
527	Billups, Jalen 21	Northern Kentucky	6'6	4 Sr	3.46
553	Daniels, Demarcus 32	North Florida	6'7	4 Sr	3.34
644	Moore, Dallas 14	North Florida	6'1	3 Jr	3.04
694	Rivera, Angel 15	Stetson	5'8	2 So	2.95
734	Williams, Josh 2	Lipscomb	6'5	3 Jr	2.83
872	Mackey, Trent 11	North Florida	6'3	4 Sr	2.51
906	Beech, Beau 2	North Florida	6'8	4 Sr	2.44
1031	Alexander, Dondre	Lipscomb	6'4	3 Jr	2.2
1158	Stephens, ShunQuez 15	South Carolina UpSt.	6'5	4 Sr	2.01
1254	Tucker, Rayjon	Florida Gulf Coast	6'5	1 Fr	1.88
1282	Terrell, Christian 35	Florida Gulf Coast	6'4	2 So	1.84
1283	DeBose, Julian 3	Florida Gulf Coast	6'4	4 Sr	1.84
1310	Clayton, Antwon 25	Jacksonville	6'6	2 So	1.8
1471	Johnson, Todd 23	Northern Kentucky	5'9	4 Sr	1.59
1540	Brown, Yonel 4	Kennesaw St.	5'9	4 Sr	1.52
1700	Mawuenyega, Karim 3	South Carolina UpSt.	6'0	3 Jr	1.31
1752	Misters, Andris 22	Jacksonville	6'5	4 Sr	1.25
1796	Morant, Demetris 21	Florida Gulf Coast	6'9	3 Jr	1.19
1800	Bell, Marcellous 0	Jacksonville	5'11	4 Sr	1.19
1816	Buchanan, Michael 44	South Carolina UpSt.	6'11	3 Jr	1.18
1832	Haywood, Jarvis	Jacksonville	6'4	3 Jr	1.16
1840	White, Marcel 13	Jacksonville	6'6	3 Jr	1.15
1891	Babineaux, Kori 55	Jacksonville	6'4	4 Sr	1.1
1919	Cuthbertson, Josh 10	South Carolina UpSt.	6'5	3 Jr	1.07
1932	Pruitt, Nigel 1	Kennesaw St.	6'7	4 Sr	1.05
2284	Schulte, Jacob 33	South Carolina UpSt.	6'6	2 So	0.99
2318	Lozoya, Grant 10	Stetson	6'2	2 So	0.95
2324	Thomas, Tristan 14	South Carolina UpSt.	6'3	3 Jr	0.94
2378	Greene Jr, Brian 14	Florida Gulf Coast	6'3	3 Jr	0.89
2402	Masterson, Nick 21	Kennesaw St.	6'5	2 So	0.87
2479	Norelia, Marc-Eddy 25	Florida Gulf Coast	6'8	3 Jr	0.79
2620	White, Tyler 3	Northern Kentucky	6'3	4 Sr	0.61
2649	Smith, Marvin 2	South Carolina UpSt.	6'6	4 Sr	0.57
2774	Cole, Deontae 4	Northern Kentucky	6'6	3 Jr	0.43
2775	Murray, Cole 25	Northern Kentucky	6'7	3 Jr	0.43
2802	Denny, Talbott 10	Lipscomb	6'6	4 Sr	0.38
2822	Jones, Jordan 2	Kennesaw St.	6'8	2 So	0.34
2884	Goodwin, Damien 0	South Carolina UpSt.	6'7	3 Jr	0.26
2903	Moeller, Eric 42	Florida Gulf Coast	6'11	3 Jr	0.24

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.