Top 2016 Teams/Players: Big Ten (Ranked 4)

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. 

It is tough to pick a winner with 10 teams in top 40, but with Diamond Stone teaming up with Melo Trimble in Maryland they have as good a chance as anyone a year after upsetting Wisconsin. Yogi Ferrell staying gives Indiana a chance to go deep a year after a very disappointing first round loss from a team with a lot of talent.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
4	Big Ten	B10			27.08
5		Maryland	28--7	49.65	38.16
9		Indiana	20--14	44.02	34.67
17		Michigan St.	27--12	36.11	32.61
22		Ohio St.	24--11	34.83	31.55
23		Wisconsin	36--4	29.84	30.67
30		Illinois	19--14	35.79	29.69
31		Iowa	22--12	29.85	29.07
32		Purdue	21--13	32.40	28.95
37		Michigan	16--16	33.29	28.14
71		Minnesota	18--15	20.98	22.87
80		Northwestern	15--17	24.91	22.12
86		Penn St.	18--16	21.31	21.67
173		Rutgers	10--22	17.03	14.88
183		Nebraska	13--18	9.79	14.05
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
4	Trimble, Melo 2	Maryland	6'3	2 So	10.02
11	Hayes, Nigel 10	Wisconsin	6'8	3 Jr	8.93
29	Uthoff, Jarrod 20	Iowa	6'9	4 Sr	7.93
37	Ferrell, Yogi 11	Indiana	6'0	4 Sr	7.65
41	Tate, Jae'Sean 1	Ohio St.	6'4	2 So	7.56
46	Valentine, Denzel 45	Michigan St.	6'5	4 Sr	7.47
58	Stone, Diamond	Maryland	6'10	1 Fr	7.18
65	Bates-Diop, Keita 33	Ohio St.	6'7	2 So	6.73
78	Mason, Nate 2	Minnesota	6'1	2 So	6.53
84	Koenig, Bronson 24	Wisconsin	6'4	3 Jr	6.49
105	Williams, Troy 5	Indiana	6'7	3 Jr	6.137
118	Layman, Jake 10	Maryland	6'9	4 Sr	5.92
142	Hill, Malcolm 21	Illinois	6'6	3 Jr	5.72
147	Edwards, Vince 12	Purdue	6'7	2 So	5.71
153	LeVert, Caris 23	Michigan	6'7	4 Sr	5.6
167	Thorne, Mike 12	Illinois	6'11	4 Sr	5.4
173	Loving, Marc 2	Ohio St.	6'7	3 Jr	5.36
175	Garner, Shep 33	Penn St.	6'1	2 So	5.35
190	Williams, Kam 15	Ohio St.	6'2	2 So	5.17
203	Swanigan, Caleb	Michigan St.	6'8	1 Fr	5.1
226	Hammons, A.J. 20	Purdue	7'0	4 Sr	4.99
249	Blackmon, James 1	Indiana	6'4	2 So	4.81
258	Olah, Alex 22	Northwestern	7'0	4 Sr	4.78
268	Cleare, Shaquille	Maryland	6'9	3 Jr	4.71
280	Showalter, Zak 3	Wisconsin	6'2	3 Jr	4.62
286	Brantley, Jaylen	Maryland	5'11	1 Fr	4.6
288	Nunn, Kendrick 25	Illinois	6'3	3 Jr	4.59
289	Hollowell, Jeremy	Indiana	6'8	3 Jr	4.541
316	Freeman, Deshawn	Rutgers	6'7	3 Jr	4.4
318	Costello, Matt 10	Michigan St.	6'9	4 Sr	4.38
328	Albrecht, Spike 2	Michigan	5'11	4 Sr	4.32
329	Davis, Rapheal 35	Purdue	6'5	4 Sr	4.31
331	Dawkins, Aubrey 24	Michigan	6'6	2 So	4.3
335	Shields, Shavon 31	Nebraska	6'7	4 Sr	4.26
340	Doyle, Ricky 32	Michigan	6'9	2 So	4.24
349	Irvin, Zak 21	Michigan	6'6	3 Jr	4.21
382	Davis, Deyonta	Michigan St.	6'9	1 Fr	4.03
492	Law, Vic 4	Northwestern	6'7	2 So	3.56
508	Morris, Carlos 11	Minnesota	6'5	4 Sr	3.52
533	Mathias, Dakota 31	Purdue	6'4	2 So	3.43
537	Forbes, Bryn 5	Michigan St.	6'3	4 Sr	3.41

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.