Top 2016 Teams/Players: Summit LEAGUE (Ranked 23)

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 Summit League has developed one of the greatest tournaments, packing more than 10,000 fans into the semifinals and finals. This year they are going to have something big to cheer about with South Dakota State looking absolutely packed and good enough for an upset. They had a very impressive NOT road win against a Colorado State team many thought would be in the NCAA, and then lost at a Vanderbilt team that may be ranked this year. North Dakota State looked solid against Gonzaga in the NCAA.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
23	Summit LEAGUE	Sum			10.69
82		South Dakota St.	24--11	22.46	22.03
181		North Dakota St.	23--10	10.51	14.18
229		IUPU Fort Wayne	16--15	6.41	11.06
241		Oral Roberts	19--15	6.78	10.22
243		South Dakota	17--16	7.42	9.96
264		Denver	12--18	6.14	9.32
282		Nebraska Omaha	12--17	6.14	8.22
309		IUPUI	10--21	5.39	6.77
333		Western Illinois	8--20	4.41	4.50
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
166	Bittle, Jake 4	South Dakota St.	6'4	4 Sr	5.42
221	Tellinghuisen, Reed 23	South Dakota St.	6'6	2 So	5
319	Larson, Cody 34	South Dakota St.	6'9	4 Sr	4.38
324	Emegano, Obi 15	Oral Roberts	6'3	4 Sr	4.33
674	Engesser, Nate 33	Denver	6'3	4 Sr	2.97
790	Barksdale, Marcellus 22	IUPUI	6'5	4 Sr	2.69
832	Thurman, Tre'Shawn 15	Nebraska Omaha	6'7	2 So	2.61
866	Parks, Deondre 0	South Dakota St.	6'4	4 Sr	2.54
895	Burnette, Tre 2	South Dakota	6'5	4 Sr	2.47
1015	Kasperbauer, Casey 14	South Dakota	6'1	4 Sr	2.22
1020	Werner, Dexter 40	North Dakota St.	6'6	3 Jr	2.21
1055	Landis, Max 10	IUPU Fort Wayne	6'2	4 Sr	2.17
1088	Brown, Kory 22	North Dakota St.	6'4	4 Sr	2.12
1342	Evans, Mo 0	IUPU Fort Wayne	6'0	3 Jr	1.76
1425	Norris, Trey 1	South Dakota	6'0	4 Sr	1.65
1493	Dupree, Carlin 13	North Dakota St.	6'3	3 Jr	1.57
1516	McCallum, Jalen 10	IUPUI	5'9	3 Jr	1.55
1539	Patterson, Ron 4	IUPUI 2017	6'2	3 Jr	1.52
1567	Theisen, Ian 42	South Dakota St.	6'9	2 So	1.49
1573	Covington, Garret 31	Western Illinois	6'5	3 Jr	1.48
1594	Reed, Joe 44	IUPU Fort Wayne	6'8	4 Sr	1.45
1606	Marshall, George 11	South Dakota St.	6'1	4 Sr	1.44
1641	Moffitt, Keaton 12	South Dakota St.	6'5	4 Sr	1.39
1671	Jacobson, A.J. 21	North Dakota St.	6'6	2 So	1.35
1690	Tyus, Marcus 23	Nebraska Omaha	6'1	4 Sr	1.32
1803	Miller, Paul 2	North Dakota St.	6'4	2 So	1.19
1815	Kading, Chris 34	North Dakota St.	6'8	4 Sr	1.18
1833	Chapman, Jalen 33	Western Illinois	6'8	4 Sr	1.16
1857	Love, Jalen 3	Denver	6'2	4 Sr	1.13
1873	Byrd, Marcus 35	Denver	6'7	4 Sr	1.11
1922	Batish, Jamie 10	Western Illinois	6'4	4 Sr	1.07
1948	Calhoun, Brent 50	IUPU Fort Wayne	6'8	3 Jr	1.03
1972	Davis, Dejon 32	South Dakota	6'4	2 So	1.01
2386	Ishola, Brian 0	North Dakota St.	6'5	2 So	0.89
2485	Kaufman, Jorden	Oral Roberts	7'0	3 Jr	0.79
2499	Brennan, Aaron 45	IUPUI	6'6	2 So	0.77
2501	Hahn, Mitchell 44	Nebraska Omaha 2017	6'8	2 So	0.77
2524	Harris, Darian 33	Oral Roberts	6'6	2 So	0.73
2532	Conley, Brandon 5	Oral Roberts	6'6	4 Sr	0.72
2631	Mackey, Christian 24	Denver	6'6	2 So	0.59

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.