Top 2016 Teams/Players: Southwestern Athletic (Ranked 32)

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. 

Some of the great Historically Black Colleges play in the SWAC, and Southern and Texas Southern seem to have a little edge this season.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
32	Southwestern Athletic	SWAC			6.55
197		Texas Southern	22--13	12.44	12.95
233		Southern	18--17	12.70	10.93
266		Arkansas Pine Bluff	12--20	13.84	9.27
280		Alabama St.	19--10	7.13	8.43
308		Jackson St.	11--21	7.63	6.80
315		Prairie View AM	15--18	5.70	6.36
329		Alabama A&M	9--20	6.17	5.09
345		Mississippi Valley St.	6--26	4.30	3.16
348		Alcorn St.	6--26	2.09	2.22
351		Grambling	2--27	0.00	0.26
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
210	Riley, Malcolm 11	Texas Southern	6'5	4 Sr	5.04
307	Sam, Jared 12	Southern	6'9	2 So	4.46
419	Waters, Jamel 12	Alabama St.	5'9	4 Sr	3.91
589	Tabb, Ladarius 23	Alabama A&M	6'5	4 Sr	3.22
608	Hammond, Tevin 14	Arkansas Pine Bluff	6'0	4 Sr	3.17
820	Hyder, Christopher 0	Southern	5'11	4 Sr	2.63
1117	Blanks, David 15	Texas Southern	6'3	4 Sr	2.08
1234	Mack, Giovanni 20	Texas Southern	5'9	2 So	1.92
1278	Love, Jovaughn 22	Arkansas Pine Bluff	6'9	4 Sr	1.84
1294	Worsham, Raeford 10	Jackson St.	6'4	4 Sr	1.83
1347	Rodgers, Adrian 2	Southern	6'4	3 Jr	1.76
1376	Rogers, Steve 52	Alabama St.	6'1	2 So	1.72
1377	Cox, Austin 13	Arkansas Pine Bluff	6'4	2 So	1.72
1441	Thomas, Chris 2	Texas Southern	6'5	4 Sr	1.63
1462	Walker, Stephen 23	Prairie View A&M	6'1	2 So	1.6
1490	Middleton, Janarius 35	Jackson St.	6'8	3 Jr	1.57
1530	Banks, Trelun 3	Southern	6'1	3 Jr	1.53
1571	Berry, Devin 34	Arkansas Pine Bluff	6'7	3 Jr	1.48
1619	Jackson, Zachary 20	Alabama A&M	6'4	2 So	1.41
1746	Johnson, Jayrn 1	Prairie View A&M	6'3	3 Jr	1.26
1762	Brent, Javeres 20	Jackson St.	6'3	3 Jr	1.24
1868	Lomax, Avery 2	Prairie View A&M	5'9	4 Sr	1.12
1912	Robinson, Ghiavonni 23	Arkansas Pine Bluff	6'3	3 Jr	1.07
1944	Whiting, Trent 15	Arkansas Pine Bluff	6'7	4 Sr	1.03
1945	Parker, Chauncy 25	Arkansas Pine Bluff	6'8	4 Sr	1.03
1965	Brown, Jordan 30	Arkansas Pine Bluff	6'4	3 Jr	1.01
2280	Alex, Jabari 33	Mississippi Valley St.	6'3	4 Sr	0.99
2350	Collier, Tonnie 12	Texas Southern	6'8	4 Sr	0.92
2367	Bernard, Kaven 12	Jackson St.	6'5	4 Sr	0.9
2381	Maddox, Gerrald 11	Jackson St.	6'5	3 Jr	0.89
2385	Hall, Jurmelle 25	Mississippi Valley St.	6'2	4 Sr	0.89
2428	Hopkins, Joell 35	Southern	6'6	4 Sr	0.85
2430	Johnson, Nevin 24	Texas Southern	6'3	4 Sr	0.85
2441	York, Karim 30	Prairie View A&M	6'9	4 Sr	0.84
2489	Thomas, Chris 24	Southern	6'4	2 So	0.79
2493	Johnson, Reginald 24	Alcorn St.	6'5	2 So	0.77
2494	Vance, Marquis 30	Alcorn St.	6'7	3 Jr	0.77
2514	Handley, Thaddeus 3	Arkansas Pine Bluff	6'6	4 Sr	0.73
2521	Kelly, Rakwan 11	Mississippi Valley St.	6'3	2 So	0.73
2522	Vaughn, Vacha 0	Mississippi Valley St.	6'4	3 Jr	0.73

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.