Top 2016 Teams/Players: Southern (Ranked 21)

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 Southern Conference look really solid this year, with a potential three-team race between Wofford, Chattanooga and Mercer who could all scare someone in March if they are hot.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
21	Southern	SC			11.83
106		Wofford	28--7	16.09	18.86
108		Chattanooga	22--10	20.79	18.52
140		Mercer	19--16	18.10	16.14
215		East Tennessee St.	16--14	11.36	11.63
245		UNC Greensboro	11--22	10.96	9.91
246		Samford	13--19	11.50	9.90
250		Western Carolina	15--17	8.52	9.81
269		Virginia Military Inst	11--19	10.28	8.85
293		Furman	11--22	8.32	7.54
302		The Citadel	11--19	10.16	7.08
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
195	White, RJ 34	UNC Greensboro	6'8	3 Jr	5.14
224	Spivey, Javonte	The Citadel	6'0	3 Jr	5
262	Croone, Stephen 14	Furman	6'0	4 Sr	4.76
287	Pryor, Greg 1	Chattanooga	6'1	2 So	4.59
312	Jelks, Stephon 15	Mercer	6'6	2 So	4.44
325	Williams, Tim	Samford	6'8	3 Jr	4.33
348	Tuoyo, Justin 31	Chattanooga	6'10	3 Jr	4.21
425	Jones, Casey 24	Chattanooga	6'5	4 Sr	3.89
583	Browning, Justin 23	Western Carolina	6'4	4 Sr	3.25
634	Merriweather, A.J. 13	East Tennessee St.	6'2	3 Jr	3.07
653	Robertson, Eric 15	Chattanooga	6'4	3 Jr	3.01
724	Moten, Darious 22	Mercer	6'6	4 Sr	2.87
728	Garcia, Eric 5	Wofford	5'11	3 Jr	2.86
817	Bryan, Jibri 34	Mercer	6'4	4 Sr	2.63
862	Collins, Spencer 14	Wofford	6'4	4 Sr	2.55
884	Brown, Mike 2	Western Carolina	6'3	4 Sr	2.49
920	Anglade, Phillip 32	Virginia Military Inst	6'5	4 Sr	2.41
929	Allen, Jaylen 20	Wofford	6'3	2 So	2.4
946	Lewis, Jestin 5	Mercer	6'1	4 Sr	2.36
993	Skinner, Lee 34	Wofford	6'6	4 Sr	2.27
1081	Leonard, Phillip 1	Mercer	6'2	4 Sr	2.14
1089	Cunningham, Christian 10	Samford	6'2	2 So	2.12
1118	White, Brian 32	The Citadel	6'8	3 Jr	2.08
1132	Harris, Devin 2	East Tennessee St.	6'4	2 So	2.04
1275	Neumann, C.J. 31	Wofford	6'7	4 Sr	1.85
1299	Brooks, Derrick 1	Wofford	6'2	2 So	1.82
1307	Saddler, Tevon 0	UNC Greensboro	6'6	3 Jr	1.81
1316	Thompson, Brandon 1	The Citadel	5'11	2 So	1.8
1323	Banks, Isaac 10	East Tennessee St.	6'7	2 So	1.78
1403	Baldwin, Diante 3	UNC Greensboro	6'0	3 Jr	1.69
1449	Iruafemi, Fred 5	Virginia Military Inst	6'6	2 So	1.62
1488	Wilson, Lester 15	East Tennessee St.	6'4	4 Sr	1.57
1548	Brummitt, Torrion 4	Western Carolina	6'7	4 Sr	1.52
1583	Panaggio, Matt 2	Mercer	6'3	2 So	1.47
1586	Jackson, Cameron 33	Wofford	6'7	2 So	1.47
1630	Taylor, Evan 11	Samford	6'4	2 So	1.41
1660	Jones-Gibson, Derius 15	Samford	6'1	4 Sr	1.37
1674	Peterson, QJ 22	Virginia Military Inst	6'0	3 Jr	1.35
1693	Eleby, Julian 35	Virginia Military Inst	6'3	3 Jr	1.32
1706	Oldham, Dee 1	Chattanooga	6'4	4 Sr	1.3

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.