Top 2016 Teams/Players: West Coast (Ranked 11)

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. 

Gonzaga seemed to finally have a national contender for the senior season of one of the greatest Value Add players ever in Kevin Pangos, but they ran into Duke. However, with All-American Kyle Wiltjer skipping the NBA draft and still having two of the best big men in the country they have a chance again. Their problem is they will have one of the best front lines in basketball, but virtually every minute played at both guards position was by seniors who have left. If the Zags can get the ball up the court, they can win.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
11	West Coast	WCC			17.13
15		Gonzaga	35--3	35.40	32.94
66		Pepperdine	18--14	28.45	23.18
79		Brigham Young	25--10	17.83	22.13
146		Portland	17--16	14.64	15.88
157		San Diego	15--16	11.35	15.54
167		St. Mary's	21--10	7.76	15.17
188		Santa Clara	14--18	14.55	13.80
195		San Francisco	14--18	9.92	13.11
220		Pacific	12--19	12.64	11.24
281		Loyola Marymount	8--23	8.86	8.31
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
10	Wiltjer, Kyle 33	Gonzaga	6'10	4 Sr	9.02
31	Collinsworth, Kyle 5	Brigham Young	6'6	4 Sr	7.85
48	Brownridge, Jared 23	Santa Clara	6'2	3 Jr	7.36
64	Sabonis, Domantas 11	Gonzaga	6'10	2 So	6.79
103	Davis, Stacy 5	Pepperdine	6'6	4 Sr	6.16
156	Wintering, Alec 2	Portland	5'11	3 Jr	5.57
292	Derksen, Tim 32	San Francisco	6'3	4 Sr	4.54
339	Karnowski, Przemek 24	Gonzaga	7'1	4 Sr	4.25
345	Major, Jeremy 3	Pepperdine	5'10	3 Jr	4.22
414	Olden, Shawn 21	Pepperdine	6'3	2 So	3.94
446	Brodziansky, Vladimir	Gonzaga/maybe	6'10	3 Jr	3.8
473	Pugh, Jarvis 4	Santa Clara	6'6	2 So	3.66
504	Raines, Jett 45	Pepperdine	6'7	4 Sr	3.54
574	Dranginis, Kyle 3	Gonzaga	6'5	4 Sr	3.28
749	Fischer, Chase 1	Brigham Young	6'3	4 Sr	2.8
796	Tyson, D'Marques 5	Portland	6'6	2 So	2.67
806	Melson, Silas 0	Gonzaga	6'4	2 So	2.65
808	Pusica, Vasa 13	San Diego	6'5	2 So	2.65
810	Naar, Emmett 41	St. Mary's	6'1	2 So	2.65
950	Bowles, Ray 22	Pacific	6'5	2 So	2.36
961	Mornar, Marin 42	Loyola Marymount	6'9	4 Sr	2.34
970	Perkins, Josh 13	Gonzaga	6'3	2 So	2.32
973	Russell, Atif 11	Pepperdine	6'5	4 Sr	2.32
981	Todd, Jason 10	Portland	6'6	2 So	2.3
1022	Holmes, Avry	San Francisco	6'2	3 Jr	2.21
1037	Hermanson, Calvin 24	St. Mary's	6'6	2 So	2.2
1069	Kok, Jito 33	San Diego	6'9	4 Sr	2.15
1151	Watson, Devin 21	San Francisco	6'1	2 So	2.02
1190	Kratch, Nate 43	Santa Clara	6'6	3 Jr	1.99
1197	Udenyi, Amadi 0	Pepperdine	6'0	3 Jr	1.98
1222	Pressley, Bryce 1	Portland	6'4	4 Sr	1.94
1248	Pineau, Dane 11	St. Mary's	6'9	3 Jr	1.89
1337	Bartley, Frank 24	Brigham Young	6'3	3 Jr	1.77
1402	Thompson, Eric 12	Pacific	6'8	4 Sr	1.69
1412	Brooks, Malcolm	Pepperdine	6'4	4 Sr	1.68
1413	Harris, Marcus 11	San Diego	6'0	2 So	1.68
1435	Wallace, T.J. 2	Pacific	6'3	3 Jr	1.64
1528	Murray, Lamond 30	Pepperdine	6'5	3 Jr	1.53
1597	Lapray, A.J. 20	Pepperdine	6'5	2 So	1.45
1605	Kobre, Alec 3	Pacific	6'2	4 Sr	1.44

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.