Top 2016 Teams/Players: Patriot LEAGUE (Ranked 22)

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. 

A balanced conference with the top eight players coming from different teams - but can we be Patriotic and hope that Army finally makes their first NCAA tournament after all these years?

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
22	Patriot LEAGUE	Pat			11.04
147		Lehigh	16--14	17.96	15.85
164		Boston University	13--17	19.62	15.28
187		American	17--16	13.39	13.93
217		Lafayette	20--13	8.93	11.39
221		Army	15--15	12.93	11.23
223		Bucknell	19--15	8.35	11.18
265		Colgate	16--17	3.47	9.29
285		Loyola MD	11--19	9.60	8.02
289		Holy Cross	14--16	4.50	7.74
312		Navy	13--19	3.59	6.47
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
116	Watson, Maurice	Boston University	5'10	3 Jr	5.93
155	Jones, Charlie 20	American	6'4	2 So	5.58
205	Ross, Kahron 1	Lehigh	5'11	2 So	5.09
267	Walker, Andre 2	Loyola MD	6'0	2 So	4.71
423	Lindner, Nick 11	Lafayette	5'11	3 Jr	3.9
569	Cox, Dylan 11	Army	6'4	4 Sr	3.29
687	Reed, Jesse 14	American	6'5	4 Sr	2.95
698	Hankerson, Cedric 21	Boston University	6'5	3 Jr	2.93
699	Price, Austin 5	Lehigh	6'3	3 Jr	2.93
918	Ferguson, Kevin 31	Army	6'10	4 Sr	2.41
969	Mosley, Cheddi 15	Boston University	6'3	2 So	2.32
1052	Omlid, Tanner 55	Army	6'3	3 Jr	2.17
1053	Papale, John 2	Boston University	6'3	4 Sr	2.17
1060	Scott, Bryce 14	Lafayette	6'3	4 Sr	2.16
1073	Plomb, Tanner 32	Army	6'7	4 Sr	2.14
1100	Fanning, Eric 3	Boston University	6'5	3 Jr	2.1
1148	Goldsborough, Justin 40	Lehigh	6'8	4 Sr	2.02
1201	Kempton, Tim 32	Lehigh	6'10	3 Jr	1.97
1205	Thomas, Zach 23	Bucknell	6'6	2 So	1.96
1212	Tillotson, Austin 1	Colgate	6'0	4 Sr	1.95
1220	Show, J.C. 12	Bucknell	6'2	2 So	1.94
1255	Rufer, Zach 21	Lafayette	6'3	4 Sr	1.88
1272	Vasic, Marko 5	American	6'5	4 Sr	1.85
1311	Gregory, Cam 22	Loyola MD	6'8	2 So	1.8
1407	Hass, Chris 14	Bucknell	6'5	4 Sr	1.68
1457	Goff, Will 13	Boston University	6'3	2 So	1.6
1479	Green, Eric 24	Holy Cross	6'4	4 Sr	1.58
1497	Rhea, Jalen 21	American	6'2	3 Jr	1.56
1537	Ramon, Alex 12	Colgate	6'1	3 Jr	1.52
1550	Hubbard, Tyler 23	Loyola MD	6'2	4 Sr	1.51
1577	Fouland, Nana 20	Bucknell	6'9	2 So	1.47
1592	Brown, Gabe 34	American	7'0	2 So	1.45
1646	Alston, Justin 32	Boston University	6'8	4 Sr	1.38
1670	Simelton, Miles 10	Lehigh	6'0	3 Jr	1.35
1698	Knorr, Kendall 3	Navy	6'3	4 Sr	1.31
1705	Frazier, Ryan 32	Bucknell	6'0	4 Sr	1.3
1780	Champion, Robert 22	Holy Cross	6'6	3 Jr	1.21
2148	Holba, Matt	Lehigh	6'6	1 Fr	1
2149	Leufroy, Kyle	Lehigh	6'2	1 Fr	1
2297	Dieudonne, Nathan 22	Boston University	6'7	4 Sr	0.97

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.