Top 2016 Teams/Players: Big South (Ranked 24)

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. 

John Brown looks to be the class of the league and give High Point a big edge up in the automatic bid.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
24	Big South	BSth			10.43
120		High Point	23--10	15.84	17.27
166		Coastal Carolina	24--10	12.25	15.23
175		Winthrop	19--13	13.16	14.69
203		UNC Asheville	15--16	13.32	12.34
214		Radford	22--12	7.34	11.67
224		Gardner Webb	20--15	8.60	11.17
275		Charleston Southern	19--12	2.27	8.58
283		Longwood	11--23	9.65	8.14
314		Campbell	10--22	5.16	6.41
331		Presbyterian	10--22	5.14	5.08
335		Liberty	8--24	4.16	4.14
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
117	Brown, John 0	High Point	6'8	4 Sr	5.92
369	Rowsey, Andrew 15	UNC Asheville	5'10	3 Jr	4.1
417	Murray, DeSean 3	Presbyterian	6'5	2 So	3.92
478	Cooks, Xavier 12	Winthrop	6'8	2 So	3.64
497	Fisher, Leron 1	Longwood	5'11	4 Sr	3.55
528	Nelson, Tyrell 20	Gardner Webb	6'7	3 Jr	3.45
546	Vannatta, Kevin 10	UNC Asheville	6'3	2 So	3.39
571	Cugini, Lorenzo 15	High Point	6'7	4 Sr	3.29
610	Wiggins, Shivaughn 10	Coastal Carolina	5'11	3 Jr	3.16
801	Johnson, Keon 5	Winthrop	5'7	3 Jr	2.67
824	Diagne, Badou 23	Coastal Carolina	6'7	4 Sr	2.62
916	Okeke, Duby 0	Winthrop	6'8	2 So	2.42
1068	Anderson, Ya Ya 11	Radford	6'2	4 Sr	2.15
1079	Johnson, Shaquille 21	Longwood	6'5	4 Sr	2.14
1181	Hamer, Kyre' 0	Campbell	6'2	3 Jr	1.99
1262	Hill, Jerome 34	Gardner Webb	6'5	4 Sr	1.86
1346	Jones, Cameron 3	Radford	6'4	4 Sr	1.76
1357	Wilson, Elijah 22	Coastal Carolina	6'4	3 Jr	1.74
1396	Thomas, Ahmad 14	UNC Asheville	6'5	2 So	1.7
1432	Retic, Joe 23	Liberty	6'3	4 Sr	1.64
1460	McIntyre, Haiishen 11	High Point	6'2	4 Sr	1.6
1489	Perez-Laham, Jorge 12	High Point	6'1	3 Jr	1.57
1517	Prescott, Tevin 31	Winthrop	6'5	4 Sr	1.55
1538	Weary, Adam 22	High Point	6'3	4 Sr	1.52
1731	Ray-St Cyr, Colton 30	Coastal Carolina	6'5	3 Jr	1.27
1734	Kemrite, Ryan 5	Liberty	6'4	2 So	1.27
1770	Freeman, Marcus 35	Coastal Carolina	6'8	4 Sr	1.23
1824	McBride, Harold 4	Gardner Webb	6'0	4 Sr	1.17
1829	Mason, D.J. 22	Campbell	6'6	4 Sr	1.16
1842	Belton, Isaac 15	Longwood	6'4	3 Jr	1.15
1860	Davis, Rashun 5	Radford	5'11	4 Sr	1.13
1867	Layer, Ethan 15	Liberty	6'1	4 Sr	1.12
1896	Terry, Markus 2	Presbyterian	6'2	3 Jr	1.1
1928	Hughes, Sam 31	UNC Asheville	6'4	4 Sr	1.06
1930	Lindauer, Anthony 24	High Point	6'3	3 Jr	1.05
1957	Davenport, Josh 42	Winthrop	6'5	3 Jr	1.03
1974	Weeks, Will 32	UNC Asheville	6'6	3 Jr	1.01
2095	Clemons, Chris	Campbell	5'10	1 Fr	1
2099	Pointer, Marquise	Charleston Southern	6'0	1 Fr	1
2273	Scott, Jarad 35	Winthrop	6'8	3 Jr	1

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.