Top 2016 Teams/Players: Mountain West (Ranked 10)

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. 

San Diego State is still the favorite, but look for the legendary Stew Morrill to make Utah State one of the big surprises of 2016 with a dominant inside do of David Collette and Jalen Moore. The conference will have five very strong teams to be one of the best 10 conferences in the country.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
10	Mountain West	MWC			17.90
24		San Diego St.	27--9	33.77	30.51
48		Utah St.	18--13	32.92	25.99
67		Nevada Las Vegas	18--15	25.72	23.14
74		Boise St.	25--9	19.37	22.74
77		Colorado St.	27--7	21.75	22.27
136		Fresno St.	15--17	19.01	16.19
162		New Mexico	15--16	13.26	15.30
168		Wyoming	25--10	10.49	15.15
209		Air Force	14--17	10.96	11.97
247		Nevada	9--22	11.16	9.88
338		San Jose St.	2--28	5.77	3.74
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
27	Webb, James 23	Boise St.	6'9	3 Jr	8.06
42	Collette, David 13	Utah St.	6'8	2 So	7.54
61	Moore, Jalen 14	Utah St.	6'8	3 Jr	6.94
93	Kell, Trey 12	San Diego St.	6'4	2 So	6.36
102	Zimmerman, Stephen	Nevada Las Vegas/maybe	7'0	1 Fr	6.16
123	Harris, Marvelle 23	Fresno St.	6'4	4 Sr	5.9
188	McCaw, Patrick 2	Nevada Las Vegas	6'6	2 So	5.19
217	Jackson, Kimani	Colorado St.	6'8	3 Jr	5
227	Pope, Malik 21	San Diego St.	6'10	2 So	4.99
242	Smith, Chris 34	Utah St.	6'4	4 Sr	4.86
299	Lyons, Trevor 20	Air Force	6'3	2 So	4.48
323	Shepard, Winston 13	San Diego St.	6'8	4 Sr	4.34
362	Spencer, Skylar 0	San Diego St.	6'10	4 Sr	4.14
397	Omogbo, Emmanuel	Colorado St.	6'8	3 Jr	4
451	West, AJ 3	Nevada	6'9	4 Sr	3.79
464	Adams, Josh 14	Wyoming	6'2	4 Sr	3.71
487	Edo, Karachi 4	Fresno St.	6'6	3 Jr	3.58
518	Chol, Angelo 3	San Diego St.	6'9	4 Sr	3.5
586	Shrigley, Matt 40	San Diego St.	6'6	3 Jr	3.24
595	Gillon, John 4	Colorado St.	6'0	3 Jr	3.21
636	Okonoboh, Goodluck 11	Nevada Las Vegas	6'10	2 So	3.07
639	Duncan, Nick 13	Boise St.	6'8	3 Jr	3.05
647	Kocur, Zach 5	Air Force	6'3	3 Jr	3.03
679	Morgan, Dwayne 15	Nevada Las Vegas	6'8	2 So	2.97
696	Jones, Derrick	Nevada Las Vegas	6'6	1 Fr	2.94
767	Cornish, Jordan 3	Nevada Las Vegas	6'6	2 So	2.75
783	Guerrero, Cezar 3	Fresno St.	6'1	4 Sr	2.7
803	Huff, Cole	Nevada	6'8	3 Jr	2.66
825	Clavell, Gian 3	Colorado St.	6'4	4 Sr	2.62
982	Hemsley, Jeremy	San Diego St.	6'3	1 Fr	2.3
986	Aget, Obij 11	New Mexico	7'1	3 Jr	2.28
1007	Pearre, Julion 5	Utah St.	6'3	2 So	2.24
1043	Marshall, Morris	Wyoming	6'2	3 Jr	2.2
1061	Poyser, Jalen	Nevada Las Vegas	6'3	1 Fr	2.16
1077	Lewis, Julien 14	Fresno St.	6'4	4 Sr	2.14
1189	Jones, Brodricks	San Diego St.	6'9	1 Fr	1.99
1215	Mitchell, Brandon 4	San Jose St.	6'6	3 Jr	1.95
1244	Grimes, Nate	Fresno St.	6'8	1 Fr	1.89
1269	Adams, Xavier 21	New Mexico	6'4	2 So	1.86
1288	Orchard, Sam 3	Utah St.	6'1	2 So	1.84

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.