Top 2016 Teams/Players: Big Sky (Ranked 28)

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. 

Eastern Washington looks dangerous again after beating Tom Crean at Indiana and then being a trendy pick to upset Georgetown in the tournament. The Hoyas did win that game by 10. This year it looks like Montana could be the team returning again after two years after the tournament.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
28	Big Sky	BSky			9.02
123		Montana	20--13	18.13	17.16
165		Eastern Washington	26--9	12.01	15.25
222		Northern Arizona	23--15	6.95	11.19
244		Northern Colorado	15--15	10.08	9.95
248		Sacramento St.	21--12	5.36	9.86
277		Portland St.	15--14	7.00	8.52
288		Weber St.	13--17	6.12	7.76
292		Southern Utah	10--19	8.57	7.64
296		Idaho	13--17	3.30	7.38
325		North Dakota	8--22	4.61	5.27
332		Idaho St.	7--23	2.99	4.61
339		Montana St.	7--23	1.89	3.71
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
277	Bliznyuk, Bogdan 32	Eastern Washington	6'6	2 So	4.65
278	McGee, James 14	Southern Utah	6'2	2 So	4.65
341	Breunig, Martin 50	Montana	6'8	4 Sr	4.24
365	Jois, Venky 55	Eastern Washington	6'8	4 Sr	4.12
618	Dunn, Mario 1	Montana	6'0	3 Jr	3.14
668	Parsons, Desean	Portland St.	6'6	3 Jr	3
671	Luzcando, Geno 1	Idaho St.	6'3	2 So	2.99
716	Anglin, Dallas 4	Northern Colorado	6'2	4 Sr	2.9
740	Gfeller, Brandon 34	Montana	6'4	3 Jr	2.82
791	Martin, Jordyn 34	Northern Arizona	6'7	4 Sr	2.69
891	Demps, Cody 2	Sacramento St.	6'4	4 Sr	2.48
897	Wilson, Jordan 3	Northern Colorado	5'7	3 Jr	2.46
947	Krslovic, Fabijan 20	Montana	6'8	2 So	2.36
963	Michael, Cameron 2	Northern Colorado	6'5	3 Jr	2.34
1021	Hornsby, Nick 33	Sacramento St.	6'7	3 Jr	2.21
1096	Hooker, Quinton 21	North Dakota	6'0	3 Jr	2.11
1179	Wright, Walter	Montana	6'0	3 Jr	2
1334	Senglin, Jeremy 30	Weber St.	6'2	3 Jr	1.78
1454	Lopez, Jack 31	Montana	6'5	3 Jr	1.61
1549	Callandret, Perrion 1	Idaho	6'2	3 Jr	1.51
1627	Yanku, Kris 4	Northern Arizona	6'4	3 Jr	1.41
1638	Mkrtychyan, Arkadiy 21	Idaho	6'7	2 So	1.39
1649	Johnson, Anthony 24	Northern Colorado	6'2	3 Jr	1.38
1675	Von Hofe, Felix 44	Eastern Washington	6'5	3 Jr	1.34
1689	Colbert, Marcus 22	Montana St.	5'11	4 Sr	1.32
1703	Hill, Kyndahl 35	Weber St.	6'7	3 Jr	1.31
1745	Spickerman, Collin 2	Portland St.	6'8	4 Sr	1.26
1869	Hess, A.J. 35	Southern Utah	6'6	4 Sr	1.12
1895	Gengler, Zach 1	Portland St.	6'2	3 Jr	1.1
1921	Rawson, Tyler 21	Southern Utah	6'9	2 So	1.07
1955	Gittens, Richaud 23	Weber St.	6'4	3 Jr	1.03
2177	Seales, Cortez	North Dakota	6'4	1 Fr	1
2181	Twombly, Brady	Northern Arizona	6'5	1 Fr	1
2182	Dotson, Jon'te 30	Northern Colorado	6'3	3 Jr	1
2263	Nzekwesi, Emmanuel	Weber St.	6'7	1 Fr	1
2264	Dallas, Jordan	Weber St.	6'9	1 Fr	1
2304	Kaluna, Ako 11	Northern Arizona	6'7	3 Jr	0.97
2329	Washington, Sir 4	Eastern Washington	6'3	2 So	0.93
2333	Suarez, Sebastian 30	Portland St.	6'4	4 Sr	0.93
2349	Parsons, Race 13	Southern Utah	6'4	3 Jr	0.92

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.