Top 2016 Teams/Players: Colonial Athletic ASSOCIATION (Ranked 19)

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. 

One place where analytics disagrees with conventional wisdom is in the case of William and Mary's Terry Tarpey, who we measure as one of the most valuable players in the country even though he was not considered the best player on the team by many observers. No great teams this year, but plenty of very good players.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
19	Colonial Athletic ASSOCIATION	CAA			12.60
125		Hofstra	20--14	15.12	16.96
126		William & Mary	20--13	15.23	16.92
144		Northeastern	23--12	12.39	16.02
176		UNC Wilmington	18--14	13.46	14.51
193		James Madison	19--14	13.08	13.25
208		Elon	15--18	14.24	12.01
236		Delaware	10--20	11.17	10.82
256		Drexel	11--19	8.93	9.67
276		College of Charleston	9--24	8.63	8.52
297		Towson	12--20	5.49	7.35
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
7	Tarpey, Terry 25	William & Mary	6'5	4 Sr	9.24
235	Green, Juan'ya 1	Hofstra	6'2	4 Sr	4.9
306	Corbett, Chivarsky 0	Delaware	6'7	2 So	4.46
400	Bryant, Elijah 33	Elon	6'4	2 So	3.98
458	Walker, David 4	Northeastern	6'6	4 Sr	3.75
560	Prewitt, Omar 4	William &Mary	6'6	3 Jr	3.33
588	Talley, Jordon 4	UNC Wilmington	6'0	2 So	3.23
622	Samson, Tanner 3	Elon	6'4	4 Sr	3.12
683	Curry, Ron 2	James Madison	6'4	4 Sr	2.96
717	McLean, Joey 4	James Madison	6'0	2 So	2.89
805	Eddy, Luke 1	Elon	6'0	3 Jr	2.65
812	Tanksley, Ameen 2	Hofstra	6'5	4 Sr	2.64
945	Dalembert, Yohanny 40	James Madison	6'8	3 Jr	2.36
1028	Overton, Miles 20	Drexel	6'4	3 Jr	2.2
1054	Barry, Canyon 24	College of Charleston	6'6	3 Jr	2.17
1076	Thompson, Dmitri 2	Elon	6'4	2 So	2.14
1134	Bernardi, Brian 14	Hofstra	6'2	3 Jr	2.04
1156	King-Davis, Marvin 21	Delaware	6'7	4 Sr	2.01
1187	Ford, Quincy 12	Northeastern	6'8	4 Sr	1.99
1210	Ponder, Craig 0	UNC Wilmington	6'1	4 Sr	1.96
1284	Gustys, Rokas 4	Hofstra	6'9	2 So	1.84
1314	Begley, Devon 20	Northeastern	6'4	2 So	1.8
1358	Hayes, Cazmon 22	Delaware	6'4	3 Jr	1.74
1364	Gettys, C.J. 23	UNC Wilmington	7'0	3 Jr	1.74
1408	Gilmore, Donovan 0	College of Charleston	6'7	2 So	1.68
1427	Bailey, Evan 11	College of Charleston	6'6	2 So	1.64
1428	Bah, Mohamed 15	Drexel	6'9	3 Jr	1.64
1446	Mosley, Anthony 3	Delaware	6'0	2 So	1.62
1453	Kent, Jackson 10	James Madison	6'7	3 Jr	1.61
1459	Chealey, Joe 13	College of Charleston	6'3	3 Jr	1.6
1475	Davis, John 10	Towson	6'5	3 Jr	1.59
1495	Stahl, Zach 33	Northeastern	6'5	3 Jr	1.57
1499	Mojica, Sammy 2	Drexel	6'3	2 So	1.56
1522	Pugh, Malik 14	UNC Wilmington	6'1	2 So	1.54
1555	Sheldon, Sean 31	William & Mary	6'9	4 Sr	1.51
1636	Sherwood, Dylan 20	UNC Wilmington	6'9	4 Sr	1.4
1648	Grays, Winston 3	James Madison	6'2	4 Sr	1.38
1672	Morsell, Mike 23	Towson	6'5	2 So	1.35
1676	Hairston, Christian 12	Elon	6'7	3 Jr	1.34
1724	Williams, T.J. 10	Northeastern	6'3	3 Jr	1.28

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.