Top 2016 Teams/Players: Pac 12 (Ranked 6)

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. 

The Pac-12 will have at least four very good teams - though I admit I am surprised Arizona projected at 6th despite all the talent they lost. The big question is whether Gary Payton lives up to our All-American projections to copy Utah's Delon Wright in lifting a non-Top 100 Pac-12 team all the way to the tournament in two years. 

The other question is whether Andy Enfield can repeat his magic from Florida Gulf Coast to lead a huge jump by USC. Hey, the guy made millions and married a Maxim Supermodel, and now he seems to have enough talent together to improve. 

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
6	Pac 12	P12			26.18
6		Arizona	34--4	42.43	37.00
14		Oregon	26--10	39.82	33.07
16		Utah	26--9	35.06	32.74
26		UCLA	22--14	34.29	30.38
46		Oregon St.	17--14	33.38	26.48
60		Southern California	12--20	32.87	24.89
61		Washington	16--15	29.90	24.60
63		Stanford	24--13	21.55	23.84
84		California	18--15	23.91	21.85
96		Arizona St.	18--16	16.85	20.60
102		Colorado	16--18	18.37	19.45
104		Washington St.	13--18	24.30	19.20
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
1	Payton, Gary 1	Oregon St.	6'3	4 Sr	11.68
23	Brown, Jaylen	UCLA/maybe	6'7	1 Fr	8.3
28	Poeltl, Jakob 42	Utah	7'0	2 So	7.97
52	Hawkinson, Josh 24	Washington St.	6'10	3 Jr	7.26
66	Rabb, Ivan	California	6'9	1 Fr	6.71
85	Scott, Josh 40	Colorado	6'10	4 Sr	6.47
90	Bell, Jordan 1	Oregon	6'7	2 So	6.41
91	Chapman, Brekkott 0	Utah	6'8	2 So	6.4
92	Alford, Bryce 20	UCLA	6'3	3 Jr	6.37
107	Smith, Ray	Arizona	6'7	1 Fr	6.09
115	Trier, Allonzo	Arizona	6'3	1 Fr	5.93
140	Andrews, Andrew 12	Washington	6'2	4 Sr	5.73
186	Brooks, Dillon 24	Oregon	6'5	2 So	5.23
204	Dime, Malik	Washington	6'9	3 Jr	5.1
238	Aaron, Shaqquan 21	Washington/maybe	6'7	2 So	4.9
243	Dotson, Damyean	Oregon	6'5	3 Jr	4.85
274	Wallace, Tyrone 3	California	6'5	4 Sr	4.68
303	York, Gabe 1	Arizona	6'3	4 Sr	4.47
315	Dorsey, Tyler	Oregon	6'4	1 Fr	4.4
317	Stewart, Elijah 30	Southern California	6'5	2 So	4.4
327	Gordon, Wesley 1	Colorado	6'9	3 Jr	4.32
337	McLaughlin, Jordan 11	Southern California	6'1	2 So	4.26
347	Simon, Justin	Arizona	6'5	1 Fr	4.21
374	Tucker, Dakarai 14	Utah	6'5	4 Sr	4.08
387	Jackson-Cartwright, Parker 0	Arizona	5'8	2 So	4
396	Guzonjic, Kenan	Colorado	6'8	3 Jr	4
399	Mathews, Jordan 24	California	6'3	3 Jr	3.98
403	Cook, Elgin 23	Oregon	6'6	4 Sr	3.98
404	Jacobs, Julian 12	Southern California	6'4	3 Jr	3.97
435	Goodman, Savon 11	Arizona St.	6'6	3 Jr	3.84
447	Benjamin, Dwayne 0	Oregon	6'7	4 Sr	3.8
455	Benson, Casey 2	Oregon	6'3	2 So	3.78
459	Loveridge, Jordan 21	Utah	6'6	4 Sr	3.74
481	Tarczewski, Kaleb 35	Arizona	7'0	4 Sr	3.61
495	Ali, Prince	UCLA	6'4	1 Fr	3.56
550	Parker, Tony 23	UCLA	6'9	4 Sr	3.37
551	Comanche, Chance	Arizona	6'10	1 Fr	3.36
554	Allen, Marcus 15	Stanford	6'3	3 Jr	3.34
584	Ristic, Dusan 14	Arizona	7'0	2 So	3.24
606	Welsh, Thomas 40	UCLA	7'0	2 So	3.19

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.