Top 2016 Teams/Players: Ivy LEAGUE (Ranked 16)

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. 

With Wesley Sanders gone, it looks like Tommy Amaker will have a tough time keeping Harvard elite, and if they do slip Columbia could be a much improved team looking for an upset title.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
16	Ivy LEAGUE	Ivy			13.75
113		Yale	22--10	13.00	18.23
116		Harvard	22--8	11.94	17.61
134		Columbia	13--15	17.48	16.37
142		Princeton	16--14	14.86	16.07
189		Dartmouth	14--15	11.75	13.80
232		Cornell	13--17	8.55	10.94
254		Brown	13--18	9.71	9.72
299		Pennsylvania	9--19	6.58	7.27
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
51	Lo, Maodo 12	Columbia	6'3	4 Sr	7.3
135	Sears, Justin 22	Yale	6'8	4 Sr	5.78
207	Castlin, Kyle 0	Columbia	6'4	2 So	5.06
405	Wright, Miles 22	Dartmouth	6'4	2 So	3.96
460	Cohen, Isaac 2	Columbia	6'4	4 Sr	3.73
510	Weisz, Spencer 10	Princeton	6'4	3 Jr	3.52
524	Mason, Makai 11	Yale	6'1	2 So	3.47
682	Gill, Malik 10	Dartmouth	5'9	4 Sr	2.96
697	Brase, Hans 30	Princeton	6'8	4 Sr	2.94
750	Kuakumensah, Cedric 21	Brown	6'9	4 Sr	2.8
761	Jones, Sam 34	Pennsylvania	6'7	2 So	2.77
797	Bell, Amir 5	Princeton	6'3	2 So	2.67
818	Cook, Steven 25	Princeton	6'5	3 Jr	2.63
826	Miller, Corbin 15	Harvard	6'2	3 Jr	2.62
1242	Hobbie, Norman 12	Brown	6'4	3 Jr	1.89
1264	Chambers, Siyani 1	Harvard	6'0	4 Sr	1.86
1380	Massey, Jason 25	Brown	6'5	2 So	1.72
1398	Hatter, Robert 5	Cornell	6'2	3 Jr	1.69
1420	Howard, Matt 24	Pennsylvania	6'4	3 Jr	1.66
1478	Chatfield, Andre 13	Harvard	6'4	2 So	1.58
1512	Montague, Jack 4	Yale	6'0	4 Sr	1.56
1558	Okolie, Agunwa 35	Harvard	6'8	4 Sr	1.5
1609	Bathurst, Wil 20	Cornell	6'3	2 So	1.43
1620	Spieth, Steven 3	Brown	6'6	3 Jr	1.41
1665	Smith, Darryl 1	Cornell	6'2	3 Jr	1.36
1699	Young, Aaron 0	Princeton	5'11	3 Jr	1.31
1707	Onuorah, David 0	Cornell	6'9	3 Jr	1.3
1713	Carpenter, Tommy 0	Dartmouth	6'7	4 Sr	1.29
1753	Lewis, Jamal 4	Pennsylvania	6'0	4 Sr	1.25
2088	King, Leland 2	Brown	6'7	3 Jr	1
2107	Boudreaux, Evan	Dartmouth	6'7	1 Fr	1
2130	Dragovic, Balsa	Harvard	6'9	1 Fr	1
2131	McCarthy, Tommy	Harvard	6'0	1 Fr	1
2132	Johnson, Corey	Harvard	6'4	1 Fr	1
2197	Cannady, Devin	Princeton	6'0	1 Fr	1
2298	Jackson, Kendall 14	Columbia	5'8	3 Jr	0.97
2307	Crescenzi, Kevin 15	Dartmouth	6'3	4 Sr	0.96
2374	Haber, Kyle 33	Brown	6'7	2 So	0.89
2375	Smith, Pat 24	Cornell	6'5	2 So	0.89
2465	Dallier, Anthony 1	Yale	6'6	3 Jr	0.81

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.