Top 2016 Teams/Players: Atlantic 10 (Ranked 8)

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. 

Despite Shaka Smart finally being lured out of VCU to take over at Texas, the top half of the A-10 looks ready to battle with the American Athletic and Big East. Davidson had no problem moving up and the top six teams project as NCAA teams, including a Rhode Island team led by Hassan Martin who we believe is ready for a breakout national season.

Natl Rnk	Player	Team	Ht	Yr	Total Value
Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
8	Atlantic 10	A10			21.54
21		Virginia Commonwealth	26--10	37.02	32.02
35		Davidson	24--8	31.77	28.85
40		Dayton	27--9	29.39	27.87
41		Rhode Island	23--10	30.44	27.63
42		Richmond	21--14	29.99	27.42
51		George Washington	22--13	28.35	25.74
65		La Salle	17--16	26.09	23.27
109		St. Joseph's	13--18	21.08	18.52
114		St. Bonaventure	18--13	16.14	18.13
133		Massachusetts	17--15	14.87	16.42
150		Duquesne	12--19	18.32	15.74
152		Fordham	10--21	18.56	15.70
191		George Mason	9--22	14.33	13.36
234		St. Louis	11--21	14.43	10.92
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
16	Martin, Hassan 12	Rhode Island	6'7	3 Jr	8.65
44	Bembry, DeAndre 43	St. Joseph's	6'6	3 Jr	7.52
47	Gibbs, Jack 12	Davidson	5'11	3 Jr	7.41
68	Garino, Patricio 13	George Washington	6'6	3 Jr	6.69
86	Allen, Terry 15	Richmond	6'8	4 Sr	6.43
101	Jones, ShawnDre' 3	Richmond	5'10	2 So	6.19
141	Barham, Jordan 5	Davidson	6'4	4 Sr	5.72
150	Aldridge, Peyton 23	Davidson	6'7	2 So	5.65
157	Alie-Cox, Mo 12	Virginia Commonwealth	6'6	3 Jr	5.55
172	Pierre, Dyshawn 21	Dayton	6'6	4 Sr	5.36
178	McDonald, Joe 22	George Washington	6'1	4 Sr	5.29
191	Cline, T.J. 10	Richmond	6'8	3 Jr	5.16
200	Mason, Micah 22	Duquesne	6'2	4 Sr	5.11
222	Wright, Dion 21	St. Bonaventure	6'7	4 Sr	5
229	Davis, Kyle 3	Dayton	6'0	3 Jr	4.98
240	Terrell, Jared 32	Rhode Island	6'3	2 So	4.89
250	Adams, Jaylen 10	St. Bonaventure	5'11	2 So	4.81
266	Thomas, Mandell 1	Fordham	6'2	4 Sr	4.73
273	Smith, Scoochie 11	Dayton	6'2	3 Jr	4.69
295	Zack, Steve 0	La Salle	6'11	4 Sr	4.51
311	Johnson, Melvin 32	Virginia Commonwealth	6'3	4 Sr	4.45
334	Watanabe, Yuta 12	George Washington	6'8	2 So	4.26
342	Sullivan, Brian 3	Davidson	5'11	4 Sr	4.22
371	Clark, Donte 0	Massachusetts	6'4	2 So	4.08
426	Larsen, Kevin 21	George Washington	6'10	4 Sr	3.89
427	Wright, Jerrell 25	La Salle	6'8	4 Sr	3.89
430	Matthews, E.C. 0	Rhode Island	6'5	3 Jr	3.87
436	Thompson, Shevon 14	George Mason	6'11	4 Sr	3.84
437	Garrett, Jarvis 1	Rhode Island	6'0	2 So	3.84
456	Sengfelder, Christian 43	Fordham	6'7	2 So	3.76
506	Price, Jordan 21	La Salle	6'5	3 Jr	3.52
517	Davis, Trey 5	Richmond	6'5	4 Sr	3.5
577	Brooks, Doug 5	Virginia Commonwealth	6'3	3 Jr	3.26
591	Nelson-Ododa, Alonzo 33	Richmond	6'9	4 Sr	3.22
596	Pollard, Kendall 25	Dayton	6'6	3 Jr	3.21
637	Roby, Davell 5	St. Louis	6'4	2 So	3.07
655	Stukes, Amar 2	La Salle	6'2	2 So	3.01
665	Colter, Derrick 1	Duquesne	5'11	4 Sr	3
691	Roberts, Cleon 3	La Salle	6'5	3 Jr	2.95
692	Davis, Trey 12	Massachusetts	6'0	4 Sr	2.95

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.