Top 2016 Teams/Players: Horizon LEAGUE (Ranked 15)

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. 

We have Alec Peters projected to play near an All-American level and lead Valpo to the title to be a very tough opponent in March Madness. The League has the fair system of giving home court in the tournament in reward for winning the regular season.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
15	Horizon LEAGUE	Horz			14.08
55		Valparaiso	28--6	26.20	25.34
91		Wisconsin Green Bay	24--9	18.44	21.09
119		Cleveland St.	19--15	12.34	17.28
137		Oakland	16--17	16.48	16.17
202		Detroit	15--18	10.84	12.58
238		Wright St.	11--20	11.38	10.79
255		Wisconsin Milwaukee	14--16	5.72	9.70
303		Youngstown St.	11--21	5.32	6.95
307		Illinois Chicago	10--24	4.60	6.81
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
15	Peters, Alec 25	Valparaiso	6'9	3 Jr	8.67
89	Felder, Kahlil 20	Oakland	5'9	3 Jr	6.41
127	Fouse, Jordan 4	Wisconsin Green Bay	6'7	4 Sr	5.86
194	Grady, Anton 15	Cleveland St.	6'8	4 Sr	5.14
199	Walker, Tevonn 2	Valparaiso	6'1	2 So	5.12
408	Hayes, Jalen 4	Oakland	6'7	2 So	3.96
474	Thomasson, Joe 32	Wright St.	6'4	4 Sr	3.66
486	Benzinger, Grant 13	Wright St.	6'3	2 So	3.6
489	Francis, Daeshon 23	Wisconsin Green Bay	6'3	2 So	3.58
505	Carter, Keith 0	Valparaiso	6'1	4 Sr	3.53
579	Bass, Paris 35	Detroit	6'7	2 So	3.25
607	Love, Carrington 12	Wisconsin Green Bay	6'1	4 Sr	3.19
727	Walker, Darien 5	Valparaiso	6'3	4 Sr	2.87
835	Mitchell, Justin 5	Wright St.	6'4	2 So	2.61
917	Small, Khalil 3	Wisconsin Green Bay	6'2	2 So	2.42
924	Dorsey-Walker, Sherron 4	Oakland	6'4	3 Jr	2.4
928	Skara, David 10	Valparaiso	6'8	2 So	2.4
939	Tiby, Matt 31	Wisconsin Milwaukee	6'8	4 Sr	2.38
959	Keane, Kaza 20	Cleveland St.	6'2	4 Sr	2.34
1013	Daniels, Nick 11	Oakland	6'1	2 So	2.22
1083	Morse, Cameron 24	Youngstown St.	6'2	2 So	2.14
1221	Yates, Andre 1	Cleveland St.	6'2	3 Jr	1.94
1225	Hain, Bobby 20	Youngstown St.	6'10	4 Sr	1.94
1273	Jenkins, Chris 0	Detroit	6'7	3 Jr	1.85
1339	Wilson, Anton 1	Detroit	6'5	4 Sr	1.76
1374	Williams, Jarod 11	Detroit	6'1	3 Jr	1.73
1456	Lowe, Kenneth 45	Wisconsin Green Bay	6'8	3 Jr	1.61
1511	Wichmann, Cody 5	Wisconsin Milwaukee	6'5	3 Jr	1.56
1585	Adekoya, Jubril 23	Valparaiso	6'7	3 Jr	1.47
1695	Hales, Terrell 11	Cleveland St.	6'4	2 So	1.31
1715	McClellan, Jason 20	Illinois Chicago	6'9	4 Sr	1.29
1766	Weber, Ryan	Youngstown St.	6'6	3 Jr	1.24
1836	Sloan, Derek 0	Cleveland St.	6'5	2 So	1.15
1849	Burns, Paris 11	Illinois Chicago	5'11	4 Sr	1.14
1851	Davidson, Nick 22	Valparaiso	6'4	3 Jr	1.14
1894	Hooper, Max 10	Oakland	6'6	4 Sr	1.1
1958	Findlay, Tevin 32	Wisconsin Green Bay	6'4	3 Jr	1.03
2114	McFolley, Josh	Detroit	6'0	1 Fr	1
2250	Smits, Derrik	Valparaiso	7'0	1 Fr	1
2356	Snider, Gabe 2	Illinois Chicago	6'3	4 Sr	0.91

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.