Top 2016 Teams/Players: Mid American (Ranked 12)

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. 

Bobby Hurley loaded Buffalo for this season, almost upsetting West Virginia a year ahead of time. With Hurley heading to Arizona State, the question is if all that talent can hold off very good teams from Central Michigan and Akron and upset somebody in the NCAA.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
12	Mid American	MAC			16.06
50		Buffalo	23--10	26.92	25.77
73		Central Michigan	23--9	24.43	22.83
95		Akron	21--14	20.85	20.83
135		Eastern Michigan	21--14	15.00	16.22
149		Kent St.	23--12	11.08	15.76
153		Western Michigan	20--14	15.72	15.67
172		Toledo	20--13	8.86	15.02
174		Northern Illinois	14--16	14.59	14.73
177		Bowling Green	21--12	10.40	14.46
230		Miami OH	13--19	8.81	10.98
231		Ball St.	7--23	13.14	10.97
259		Ohio	10--20	7.77	9.53
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
32	Simons, John 34	Central Michigan	6'8	4 Sr	7.84
104	Evans, Shannon 11	Buffalo	6'1	3 Jr	6.14
106	Moss, Justin 23	Buffalo	6'7	4 Sr	6.11
234	Fowler, Chris 15	Central Michigan	6'1	4 Sr	4.91
239	Hall, Jimmy 35	Kent St.	6'7	3 Jr	4.89
265	Denny, Zack 4	Bowling Green	6'2	3 Jr	4.73
296	O'Field, Maurice	Buffalo	6'5	3 Jr	4.5
433	McAdams, Reggie 21	Akron	6'7	4 Sr	3.85
453	Bearden, Lamonte 1	Buffalo	6'3	2 So	3.78
494	Boothe, Nathan 53	Toledo	6'9	4 Sr	3.56
498	Robotham, Noah 14	Akron	6'1	2 So	3.54
500	Skeete, Jarryn 10	Buffalo	6'3	4 Sr	3.54
509	Campbell, Antonio 33	Ohio	6'8	3 Jr	3.52
535	Kretzer, Jake 15	Akron	6'7	4 Sr	3.41
536	Washington, Eric 33	Miami OH	5'10	4 Sr	3.41
573	Lee, Ray 0	Eastern Michigan	6'3	3 Jr	3.28
594	House, Franko 15	Ball St.	6'6	3 Jr	3.21
614	Sellers, Sean 34	Ball St.	6'6	2 So	3.15
624	Lauf, Jordan 25	Toledo	6'5	3 Jr	3.12
638	Tava, Connar 2	Western Michigan	6'6	4 Sr	3.07
695	Haymond, Tucker 1	Western Michigan	6'6	3 Jr	2.95
747	Wilder, Thomas 10	Western Michigan	6'3	2 So	2.81
752	Zelis, Andrew	Northern Illinois	7'0	3 Jr	2.8
777	Calhoun, Bo 12	Ball St.	6'6	4 Sr	2.71
828	Forsythe, Pat 34	Akron	6'11	4 Sr	2.61
841	Meyer, Luke 2	Central Michigan	6'11	2 So	2.59
846	Armstead, Aaric 23	Northern Illinois	6'5	3 Jr	2.58
864	Spicer, Khaliq 21	Kent St.	6'9	4 Sr	2.54
873	Jackson, Antino 55	Akron	5'11	2 So	2.5
886	Simmons, Rayshawn 4	Central Michigan	6'4	4 Sr	2.48
1000	Rayson, Braylon 5	Central Michigan	5'9	3 Jr	2.24
1002	Alvano, Ethan 25	Eastern Michigan	6'1	2 So	2.24
1017	Cheatham, Kwan 2	Akron	6'9	3 Jr	2.21
1027	Andrews, Jamir	Bowling Green	6'3	3 Jr	2.2
1062	Maric, Marin 34	Northern Illinois	6'10	2 So	2.16
1155	Wigginton, Rodell 20	Buffalo	6'5	4 Sr	2.01
1196	Taylor, Ryan 14	Ohio	6'5	2 So	1.98
1219	Kiapway, Francis 0	Ball St.	6'3	2 So	1.94
1226	Kozinski, Josh 12	Central Michigan	6'4	3 Jr	1.93
1391	Bowie, Darrell 10	Northern Illinois	6'7	4 Sr	1.7

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.