Top 2016 Teams/Players: Mid-Eastern Athletic (Ranked 31)

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. 

It does not look like Norfolk State has the talent to pull a tournament upset like they did against Missouri a couple of years ago, but with the top three players in the league they should have enough to hold off other teams in a very balanced conference.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
31	Mid-Eastern Athletic	MEAC			8.05
161		Norfolk St.	20--14	16.47	15.30
185		North Carolina Central	25--8	7.32	14.01
192		Hampton	17--18	15.52	13.26
200		Maryland Eastern Shore	18--15	11.21	12.66
205		Howard	16--16	14.39	12.23
298		Savannah St.	9--22	11.20	7.32
313		Delaware St.	18--18	3.00	6.44
316		South Carolina St.	11--22	8.76	6.24
317		North Carolina A&T	9--23	9.04	6.22
336		Bethune Cookman	11--21	4.26	4.06
340		Morgan St.	7--24	3.72	3.65
347		Coppin St.	8--23	0.14	2.53
350		Florida A&M	2--27	0.41	0.73
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
314	Gaston, RaShid 35	Norfolk St.	6'9	4 Sr	4.43
322	Short, Jeff 10	Norfolk St.	6'4	4 Sr	4.34
672	Taylor, D'Shon 4	Norfolk St.	6'5	4 Sr	2.99
680	Pinkett, Khaleen 2	Savannah St.	6'2	2 So	2.97
714	Daniel, James 11	Howard	5'10	3 Jr	2.9
722	Powers, Deron 11	Hampton	5'11	4 Sr	2.87
773	Williams, Austin 20	North Carolina A&T	6'1	2 So	2.73
784	Collins, Damon 15	Howard	6'5	3 Jr	2.7
816	Andino, Ryan 0	Maryland Eastern Shore	6'2	2 So	2.63
877	Francis, Treyvon 11	Savannah St.	6'2	2 So	2.5
914	Holmes, Dante 0	North Carolina Central	6'3	4 Sr	2.42
952	Fenner, Alante 1	Savannah St.	6'5	3 Jr	2.36
987	Soloman, Tyvoris 23	South Carolina St.	6'0	2 So	2.28
989	Martin, Devin 4	Maryland Eastern Shore	6'4	4 Sr	2.27
1003	Brown, Ke'Ron 21	Hampton	6'3	4 Sr	2.24
1019	Miller, James 33	Howard	6'4	3 Jr	2.21
1033	Blackmon, Mark 3	Maryland Eastern Shore	5'9	3 Jr	2.2
1113	Meikle, Dwight 23	Hampton	6'7	4 Sr	2.08
1185	Baxter, Hakeem	Maryland Eastern Shore	6'2	2 So	1.99
1186	Beckford, Bruce 32	North Carolina A&T	6'7	4 Sr	1.99
1274	Hampton, Andrew 23	Morgan St.	6'4	3 Jr	1.85
1344	Robinson, Zaynah 2	Norfolk St.	5'11	2 So	1.76
1361	Carroll, Keith 1	Hampton	5'11	2 So	1.74
1467	Blossom, Cedric 34	Morgan St.	6'6	4 Sr	1.59
1496	Palmer, Darryl 30	South Carolina St.	6'8	4 Sr	1.57
1504	Reese, Nick 4	North Carolina A&T	6'7	2 So	1.56
1520	Butler, Jordan 45	Norfolk St.	6'6	2 So	1.54
1602	Darden, Brian 14	Hampton	6'2	4 Sr	1.44
1603	Johnson, Reginald 34	Hampton	6'2	4 Sr	1.44
1626	Gray, Malik 23	Norfolk St.	6'6	2 So	1.41
1631	Norman, Jamal 0	Savannah St.	6'5	2 So	1.41
1640	Crawford, Kevin 4	North Carolina Central	6'1	3 Jr	1.39
1655	Tillinghast, Quincy 0	Delaware St.	6'0	2 So	1.37
1656	Waller, Kavon 10	Delaware St.	6'5	2 So	1.37
1664	Johnson, Ricky 22	Bethune Cookman	5'9	4 Sr	1.36
1680	Pressley, Jervon 30	Hampton	6'8	4 Sr	1.33
1722	Boyd, Marcel 22	Howard	6'11	3 Jr	1.28
1757	Kynard, Tony 3	Bethune Cookman	6'1	3 Jr	1.24
1787	Trim, Travis 10	Maryland Eastern Shore	6'1	4 Sr	1.2
1811	Key, Breon 2	Hampton	6'2	4 Sr	1.18

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.