Top 2016 Teams/Players: Missouri Valley (Ranked 9)

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. 

Wichita State is loaded again, and should be in good shape to win the conference with Seth Tuttle gone from Northern Iowa. The duo of Fred Van Vleet and Ron Baker could well be the top duo in the country and have plenty of confidence after beating Kansas in the tournament.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
9	Missouri Valley	MVC			18.14
11		Wichita St.	30--5	37.87	33.78
49		Illinois St.	22--13	26.41	25.90
54		Northern Iowa	31--4	21.20	25.36
99		Loyola Chicago	24--13	21.23	19.92
101		Evansville	24--12	18.81	19.66
148		Missouri St.	11--20	22.02	15.81
151		Indiana St.	15--16	15.83	15.71
274		Southern Illinois	12--21	5.50	8.65
278		Bradley	9--24	7.90	8.51
284		Drake	9--22	6.40	8.10
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
3	Van Vleet, Fred 23	Wichita St.	6'0	4 Sr	10.36
13	Baker, Ron 31	Wichita St.	6'4	4 Sr	8.85
49	Mockevicius, Egidijus 55	Evansville	6'10	4 Sr	7.34
165	Lee, Paris 1	Illinois St.	5'11	3 Jr	5.44
171	Morgan, Jeremy 20	Northern Iowa	6'5	3 Jr	5.37
230	Lynch, Reggie 22	Illinois St.	6'10	3 Jr	4.98
298	Scott, Brenton 4	Indiana St.	6'1	2 So	4.5
344	Washpun, Wes 11	Northern Iowa	6'1	4 Sr	4.22
353	Turk, Devon 4	Loyola Chicago	6'4	4 Sr	4.19
434	Akoon-Purcell, DeVaughn 44	Illinois St.	6'5	4 Sr	3.85
443	Marshall, Marcus 11	Missouri St.	6'3	3 Jr	3.81
485	Lohaus, Wyatt 33	Northern Iowa	6'2	2 So	3.6
490	Hawkins, Deontae 23	Illinois St.	6'8	2 So	3.56
532	Richardson, Ben 14	Loyola Chicago	6'3	2 So	3.43
580	Kendrix, Chris 33	Missouri St.	6'5	2 So	3.25
617	Balentine, D.J. 31	Evansville	6'2	4 Sr	3.14
649	Timmer, Reed 12	Drake	6'1	2 So	3.03
656	Jesperson, Paul 4	Northern Iowa	6'6	4 Sr	3.01
701	Bohannon, Matt 5	Northern Iowa	6'4	4 Sr	2.93
705	Doyle, Milton 35	Loyola Chicago	6'4	3 Jr	2.92
758	Morris, Shaquille 24	Wichita St.	6'7	2 So	2.79
785	Peterson, Earl 2	Loyola Chicago	6'3	4 Sr	2.7
802	Smith, Khristian 1	Indiana St.	6'6	4 Sr	2.66
855	Bennett, Charles 15	Indiana St.	5'10	4 Sr	2.56
901	Williams, Dorrian 23	Missouri St.	6'3	4 Sr	2.45
957	Miller, Dequon	Missouri St.	5'10	3 Jr	2.35
975	Wessel, Evan 3	Wichita St.	6'4	4 Sr	2.32
1032	Kirby, Maurice	Loyola Chicago	6'9	3 Jr	2.2
1046	Boone, Camyn 30	Missouri St.	6'6	4 Sr	2.19
1066	Jones, Warren 2	Bradley	6'3	4 Sr	2.15
1099	Shamet, Landry	Wichita St.	6'4	1 Fr	2.11
1112	Brown, Jaylon 3	Evansville	6'0	3 Jr	2.08
1119	Brown, Zach 1	Wichita St.	6'6	2 So	2.08
1135	Zeisloft, Nick	Illinois St.	6'4	2 So	2.04
1177	Martin, Jordan	Missouri St.	5' 11"	3 Jr	2
1178	Leon, Justin	Missouri St./maybe	6'8	3 Jr	2
1206	Brown, Devonte 11	Indiana St.	6'2	4 Sr	1.96
1245	Wills, Tony 12	Illinois St.	6'3	3 Jr	1.89
1292	Gibson, Duane 4	Evansville	6'3	3 Jr	1.83
1330	Beane, Anthony 25	Southern Illinois	6'2	4 Sr	1.78

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.

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