Top 2016 Teams/Players: Big West (Ranked 14)

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. 

A pretty exciting league this year. The talest player Mamadou Ndiaye (7-foot-6 of UC Irvine) is back after giving Louisville a scare in the tournament and UC Santa Barbara have a great backcourt. However, we have Hawaii as a big threat to beat someone in the tournament as it appears players are finally figuring out it is a nice place to live if you are looking to transfer or pick a college.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
14	Big West	BW			14.16
72		Hawaii	22--13	26.75	22.87
97		UC Irvine	21--13	19.24	20.30
110		UC Santa Barbara	19--14	17.10	18.45
155		Long Beach St.	16--17	13.56	15.62
160		Cal Poly	13--16	14.52	15.34
180		UC Davis	25--7	7.50	14.30
257		UC Riverside	14--17	7.34	9.61
323		Cal St. Northridge	9--24	2.17	5.52
324		Cal St. Fullerton	9--22	3.79	5.42
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
208	Vincent, Gabe 2	UC Santa Barbara	6'3	2 So	5.06
308	Bryson, Michael 24	UC Santa Barbara	6'4	4 Sr	4.46
416	Bobbitt, Roderick 5	Hawaii	6'3	4 Sr	3.92
450	Morgan, Reese 5	Cal Poly	6'2	4 Sr	3.79
467	Valdes, Aaron 23	Hawaii	6'5	3 Jr	3.69
470	Fox, Josh 21	UC Davis	6'6	4 Sr	3.68
529	Fleming, Isaac 0	Hawaii	6'3	2 So	3.45
582	Young, Alex 1	UC Irvine	6'1	4 Sr	3.25
629	Ndiaye, Mamadou 34	UC Irvine	7'6	3 Jr	3.1
630	Bland, Jaylen 1	UC Riverside	6'3	4 Sr	3.1
635	Jones, Branford 14	Long Beach St.	6'1	3 Jr	3.07
690	Pope, Austin	Hawaii/Maybe	6'6	3 Jr	2.95
704	Johns, Taylor 5	UC Riverside	6'7	4 Sr	2.93
775	Martin, Jaron 0	UC Irvine	5'10	3 Jr	2.72
852	Smith, Quincy 11	Hawaii	6'1	4 Sr	2.57
861	Thomas, Mike 25	Hawaii	6'7	3 Jr	2.55
863	Jankovic, Stefan 33	Hawaii	6'11	3 Jr	2.54
904	Nwaba, David 0	Cal Poly	6'4	4 Sr	2.44
919	Hammonds, Travis 24	Long Beach St.	6'6	3 Jr	2.41
998	Awich, Joel 25	Cal Poly	6'7	4 Sr	2.24
1004	North, Deontae 13	Long Beach St.	6'4	2 So	2.24
1010	Webster-Chan, Negus 14	Hawaii	6'7	3 Jr	2.23
1057	Monson, Neal 22	UC Davis	6'10	3 Jr	2.17
1137	Nelson, Luke 10	UC Irvine	6'3	3 Jr	2.04
1229	Johnson, Lanerryl 10	Cal St. Fullerton	6'1	4 Sr	1.92
1235	Dunning, Dominique 24	UC Irvine	6'4	4 Sr	1.92
1243	Shipley, Ridge 10	Cal Poly	6'0	3 Jr	1.89
1317	Saprykinas, Haroldas 11	UC Irvine	6'2	2 So	1.8
1321	Bennett, Brian 34	Cal Poly	6'9	4 Sr	1.78
1372	Hale-Edmerson, Tre 11	Cal St. Northridge	6'7	4 Sr	1.73
1510	Childress, Eric 1	UC Santa Barbara	6'0	3 Jr	1.56
1613	Ford, Hunter 0	UC Santa Barbara	6'3	3 Jr	1.43
1647	Toth, Kyle 13	Cal Poly	6'2	4 Sr	1.38
1673	Wright, Aaron 32	UC Irvine	6'3	4 Sr	1.35
1701	Taylor, T.J. 11	UC Santa Barbara	5'9	4 Sr	1.31
1740	Brown, Taran	UC Santa Barbara	6'8	3 Jr	1.27
1838	Shamburger, Keith	Hawaii	6'0	4 Sr	1.15
1841	Levin, Gabe	Long Beach St.	6'7	2 So	1.15
1925	Jovanovic, Stefan 15	Hawaii	6'11	3 Jr	1.06
1937	Tang, Chris 31	UC Riverside	6'3	2 So	1.05

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.