Top 2016 Teams/Players: Big 12 (Ranked 1)

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 Big 12 was the best conference top to bottom last year due to having no weak teams. With Buddy Hield waiting another year for the NBA, Iowa State continuing to load up on JUCO stars, Shaka Smart in Texas and Kansas and Baylor looking elite - well you get it. Even TCU and Texas Tech are pulling in great talent, leaving K-State in danger of falling to last. Right now eight of 10 teams project to easily make the tournament.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
1	Big 12	B12			31.44
3		Oklahoma	24--11	48.26	38.81
4		Kansas	27--9	47.68	38.50
8		West Virginia	25--10	43.65	35.48
12		Baylor	24--10	38.04	33.50
18		Texas	20--14	37.36	32.54
20		Iowa St.	25--9	35.91	32.41
25		Oklahoma St.	18--14	35.34	30.48
36		Texas Christian	18--15	32.61	28.37
64		Texas Tech	13--19	31.08	23.43
93		Kansas St.	15--17	20.23	20.88
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
2	Morris, Monte 11	Iowa St.	6'2	3 Jr	10.58
9	Mason, Frank 0	Kansas	5'11	3 Jr	9.16
18	Hield, Buddy 24	Oklahoma	6'4	4 Sr	8.52
22	Gathers, Rico 2	Baylor	6'8	4 Sr	8.33
50	Spangler, Ryan 0	Oklahoma	6'8	4 Sr	7.34
53	Prince, Taurean 21	Baylor	6'7	4 Sr	7.25
63	Forte, Phil 13	Oklahoma St.	5'11	4 Sr	6.84
73	Ellis, Perry 34	Kansas	6'8	4 Sr	6.64
79	Hield, Buddy 24	Oklahoma	6'4	4 Sr	6.53
81	Williams, Kenrich 34	Texas Christian	6'7	3 Jr	6.51
95	Carter, Jevon 2	West Virginia	6'2	2 So	6.29
97	Taylor, Isaiah 1	Texas	6'1	3 Jr	6.26
112	Washburn, Chris 33	Texas Christian	6'8	3 Jr	6
133	Woodard, Jordan 10	Oklahoma	6'0	3 Jr	5.79
149	Manyang, Akolda	Oklahoma	7'0	3 Jr	5.7
151	Ridley, Cameron 55	Texas	6'9	4 Sr	5.65
161	Myers, Teyvon	West Virginia	6'2	3 Jr	5.5
174	Bragg, Carlton	Kansas	6'9	1 Fr	5.35
176	Ibaka, Igor	Oklahoma St.	6'9	3 Jr	5.3
179	McKay, Jameel 1	Iowa St.	6'9	4 Sr	5.29
184	Graham, Devonte' 4	Kansas	6'2	2 So	5.24
201	Cousins, Isaiah 11	Oklahoma	6'4	4 Sr	5.11
211	Miles, Daxter 4	West Virginia	6'3	2 So	5.04
223	Lammert, Connor 21	Texas	6'9	4 Sr	5
233	Niang, Georges 31	Iowa St.	6'8	4 Sr	4.92
252	Acuil, Joseph	Baylor	7'0	3 Jr	4.8
279	White, Andrew	Kansas	6'6	3 Jr	4.64
282	Nash, Le'Bryan 2	Oklahoma St.	6'7	4 Sr	4.61
284	Williams, Devin 5	West Virginia	6'9	3 Jr	4.61
294	Long, Naz 15	Iowa St.	6'4	4 Sr	4.51
301	Iwundu, Wesley 25	Kansas St.	6'7	3 Jr	4.48
326	Holton, Jonathan 1	West Virginia	6'7	4 Sr	4.33
358	Boucher, Chris	Texas Tech/maybe	6'10	3 Jr	4.16
364	Medford, Lester 11	Baylor	5'10	4 Sr	4.12
368	Trent, Malique	Texas Christian	6'2	3 Jr	4.1
373	Smith, Zach 11	Texas Tech	6'8	2 So	4.08
452	Evans, Jawun	Oklahoma St.	6'0	1 Fr	3.79
463	Greene, Brannen 14	Kansas	6'7	3 Jr	3.71
466	Burton, Deonte 30	Iowa St.	6'4	3 Jr	3.7
501	Edwards, Justin 14	Kansas St.	6'4	4 Sr	3.54

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.