Top 2016 Teams/Players: Atlantic Coast (Ranked 3)

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 ACC has taken over the old Big East argument - clearly the best conference through the top 10 teams so how much do you penalize them for having a few bad teams at the bottom? The bottom four teams should improve over their 11 to 13 wins each last year, but still pull the overall ranking below the balanced Big 12 and the much improved SEC. Look for another year of ACC teams flooding the Top 25 rankings throughout the year.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
3	Atlantic Coast	ACC			27.53
4		Duke	35--4	45.62	38.50
7		North Carolina	26--12	44.46	37.00
15		Virginia	30--4	35.59	33.38
20		Louisville	27--9	36.22	32.64
26		Notre Dame	32--6	33.62	31.91
41		Miami FL	25--13	31.47	28.56
49		Pittsburgh	19--15	32.07	27.22
50		North Carolina St.	22--14	27.52	27.18
58		Syracuse	18--13	27.05	25.89
61		Florida St.	17--16	30.41	25.59
66		Clemson	16--15	28.36	25.22
87		Georgia Tech	12--19	22.84	22.30
99		Wake Forest	13--19	23.94	21.44
114		Virginia Tech	11--22	23.31	18.98
129		Boston College	13--19	14.10	17.19
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
14	Paige, Marcus 5	North Carolina	6'1	4 Sr	8.81
20	Gill, Anthony 13	Virginia	6'8	4 Sr	8.46
24	Lee, Damion 14	Louisville	6'6	4 Sr	8.13
39	Allen, Grayson 3	Duke	6'4	2 So	7.63
54	Johnson, Brice 11	North Carolina	6'9	4 Sr	7.25
55	Blossomgame, Jaron 5	Clemson	6'7	3 Jr	7.24
57	Brogdon, Malcolm 15	Virginia	6'5	4 Sr	7.21
59	McClellan, Sheldon 10	Miami FL	6'5	4 Sr	7.09
69	Artis, Jamel 1	Pittsburgh	6'7	3 Jr	6.69
72	Jeter, Chase	Duke	6'10	1 Fr	6.67
74	Jefferson, Amile 21	Duke	6'9	4 Sr	6.61
76	Young, Michael 2	Pittsburgh	6'9	3 Jr	6.58
77	Meeks, Kennedy 3	North Carolina	6'9	3 Jr	6.55
80	Jackson, Justin 44	North Carolina	6'8	2 So	6.52
108	Jackson, Demetrius 11	Notre Dame	6'1	3 Jr	6.07
109	Thornton, Derryck	Duke	6'1"	1 Fr	6.03
113	Auguste, Zach 30	Notre Dame	6'10	4 Sr	5.96
114	Georges-Hunt, Marcus 3	Georgia Tech	6'5	4 Sr	5.95
132	Jekiri, Tonye 23	Miami FL	7'0	4 Sr	5.79
144	Gbinije, Michael 0	Syracuse	6'7	4 Sr	5.72
146	Vasturia, Steve 32	Notre Dame	6'5	3 Jr	5.71
158	Colson, Bonzie 35	Notre Dame	6'5	2 So	5.54
169	Barber, Anthony 12	North Carolina St.	6'2	3 Jr	5.38
180	Lewis, Trey 3	Louisville	6'2	4 Sr	5.27
189	Plumlee, Marshall 40	Duke	7'0	4 Sr	5.17
246	Reed, Davon 5	Miami FL	6'6	3 Jr	4.83
253	Brandon, Montay 32	Florida St.	6'8	4 Sr	4.8
254	Grantham, Donte 15	Clemson	6'8	2 So	4.79
261	Anderson, Ryan	Boston College	6'9	4 Sr	4.76
291	Lewis, Tyler	North Carolina St.	5'11	3 Jr	4.54
293	Smith, Sterling 24	Pittsburgh	6'4	4 Sr	4.53
297	Smith, Adam 3	Georgia Tech	6'1	4 Sr	4.5
302	Moto, Arnaud	Wake Forest	6'6	3 Jr	4.48
304	Ingram, Brandon	Duke/maybe	6'8	1 Fr	4.47
309	Shayok, Marial 4	Virginia	6'5	2 So	4.46
336	Robinson, James 0	Pittsburgh	6'3	4 Sr	4.26
343	Onuaku, Chinanu 32	Louisville	6'10	2 So	4.22
346	Perrantes, London 32	Virginia	6'2	3 Jr	4.22
352	Bacon, Dwayne	Florida St.	6'6	1 Fr	4.19
355	Cooney, Trevor 10	Syracuse	6'4	4 Sr	4.17

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.