Top 2016 Teams/Players: Northeast (Ranked 26)

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. 

Rodney Pryor gives the small conference a top 100 player, and he hopes to team up with Elijah Minnie to take Robert Morris into the tournament.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
26	Northeast	NEC			9.68
158		Mount St. Mary's	15--15	18.75	15.44
159		Robert Morris	20--15	15.66	15.42
207		St. Francis NY	23--12	7.06	12.08
253		St. Francis PA	16--16	7.40	9.73
263		Long Island Brooklyn	12--18	10.29	9.32
270		Sacred Heart	15--17	6.16	8.80
273		Fairleigh Dickinson	8--21	12.27	8.69
286		Bryant	16--15	4.81	7.87
305		Wagner	10--20	6.52	6.86
346		Central Connecticut	5--26	1.89	2.61
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
94	Pryor, Rodney 11	Robert Morris	6'5	4 Sr	6.32
206	Minnie, Elijah 5	Robert Morris	6'8	2 So	5.08
245	Townes, Marques 15	Fairleigh Dickinson	6'4	2 So	4.83
454	Graves, Gregory 15	Mount St. Mary's	6'7	4 Sr	3.78
465	Anderson, Darin 22	Fairleigh Dickinson	6'1	2 So	3.7
511	Garvin, Dan 22	Bryant	6'6	3 Jr	3.51
539	Ashe, Byron 2	Mount St. Mary's	6'0	3 Jr	3.41
762	Fall, Amdy 32	St. Francis NY	6'7	4 Sr	2.77
857	Danaher, Taylor 50	Mount St. Mary's	7'0	4 Sr	2.56
876	Stewart, Kavon 3	Robert Morris	6'0	3 Jr	2.5
908	Broome, Cane 1	Sacred Heart	6'0	2 So	2.44
923	Hermannsson, Martin 24	Long Island Brooklyn	6'3	2 So	2.4
926	Brown, Greg 12	St. Francis PA	6'2	4 Sr	2.4
988	Sanabria, Glenn 10	St. Francis NY	5'11	2 So	2.28
991	Drinnon, Ronnie 40	St. Francis PA	6'7	4 Sr	2.27
1063	Barnett, DeVon 5	Sacred Heart	6'5	3 Jr	2.16
1078	Woods, Trevin 0	Long Island Brooklyn	6'6	2 So	2.14
1247	Hooper, Chris 15	St. Francis NY	6'6	4 Sr	1.89
1267	Robinson, Lamont 3	Mount St. Mary's	5'7	2 So	1.86
1325	Frioriksson, Elvar 10	Long Island Brooklyn	6'0	2 So	1.78
1326	Miller, Will 11	Mount St. Mary's	6'6	3 Jr	1.78
1400	Harris, Xavier 20	Fairleigh Dickinson	6'6	4 Sr	1.69
1415	Saunders, Romone 11	Wagner		2 So	1.68
1433	Glover, Charles 12	Mount St. Mary's	6'1	2 So	1.64
1468	Nwandu, Khalid 4	Mount St. Mary's	6'3	3 Jr	1.59
1484	Kadji, Japhet 21	Wagner	6'7	2 So	1.58
1507	Falzon, Tevin 34	Sacred Heart	6'7	4 Sr	1.56
1518	Potts, Earl 5	Fairleigh Dickinson	6'6	2 So	1.54
1702	Aaman, Mike 34	Wagner	6'8	4 Sr	1.31
1711	Harmon, Malik 1	St. Francis PA	5'11	3 Jr	1.3
1773	Zanna, Nura 15	Long Island Brooklyn	6'7	2 So	1.23
1801	Hernandez, Joel 11	Long Island Brooklyn	6'3	3 Jr	1.19
1805	Millaud-Meunier, Ben 11	St. Francis PA	6'3	4 Sr	1.19
1830	Peel, Brandon 34	Central Connecticut	6'7	4 Sr	1.16
1903	Kostur, Bosco 3	Bryant	6'7	2 So	1.09
1942	Moody, Mario	Wagner	6'7	4 Sr	1.04
2382	Hood, Jamil 12	Long Island Brooklyn	6'1	2 So	0.89
2487	Frederick, Andre 33	Robert Morris	6'8	2 So	0.79
2515	Mobley, Matt 21	Central Connecticut	6'3	3 Jr	0.73
2569	Smeathers, Andy 30	Mount St. Mary's	6'8	4 Sr	0.67

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.