Top 2016 Teams/Players: Western Athletic (Ranked 27)

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. 

Pascal Siakam from Cameroon projects to be a huge star and could take New Mexico State to a conference title. He wrapped up his freshman season with 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocked shots against Kansas in the tournament. For the season, he was in the top 1% of offensive rebounding and in the top few percent in drawing fouls, blocking shots and shooting percentage.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
27	Western Athletic	WAC			9.39
103		New Mexico St.	23--11	17.57	19.43
210		UMKC	14--19	15.54	11.89
218		Cal St. Bakersfield	14--19	12.76	11.34
251		Grand Canyon	17--15	10.39	9.75
300		Seattle	18--16	3.76	7.25
319		Texas Pan American	10--21	8.27	5.78
327		Chicago St.	8--24	6.59	5.17
334		Utah Valley	11--19	4.43	4.48
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
30	Siakam, Pascal 43	New Mexico St.	6'9	2 So	7.87
164	Braun, Joshua 2	Grand Canyon	6'4	2 So	5.44
216	Basile, Dedrick	Cal St. Bakersfield	5'10	3 Jr	5
237	Baker, Ian 4	New Mexico St.	6'0	3 Jr	4.9
283	Joesaar, Janari 21	Texas Pan American	6'6	3 Jr	4.61
613	Harrison, Martez 12	UMKC	5'11	3 Jr	3.16
616	Knight, Noah 42	UMKC	6'1	2 So	3.15
650	Taylor, Deshon 2	UMKC	6'3	2 So	3.03
844	Austin, Darius 23	UMKC	6'6	2 So	2.59
976	Owens, Clemmye 21	Chicago St.	6'1	3 Jr	2.3
999	Wrapp, Brent 1	Cal St. Bakersfield	6'3	2 So	2.24
1090	Murray, Emerson 2	Seattle	6'3	4 Sr	2.12
1233	Kimasa, Dan 23	Texas Pan American	6'9	2 So	1.92
1263	Davis, De'Andre 11	Grand Canyon	6'1	2 So	1.86
1363	Hobbs, Isaiah 3	Texas Pan American	6'4	2 So	1.74
1464	Nelson, Zach 21	Utah Valley	6'7	3 Jr	1.6
1514	Airington, Jaylin 11	Cal St. Bakersfield	6'4	3 Jr	1.55
1515	Majerle, Ryan 4	Grand Canyon	6'3	4 Sr	1.55
1531	Smith, Thaddeus 21	UMKC	6'9	4 Sr	1.53
1536	Palmer, Trayvon 5	Chicago St.	6'4	3 Jr	1.52
1634	Mays, Kevin 10	Cal St. Bakersfield	6'4	4 Sr	1.4
1679	Russell, DeWayne 0	Grand Canyon	5'11	4 Sr	1.33
1855	Batson, Joshua 21	Chicago St.	6'0	4 Sr	1.13
1856	Adekova, Jawad 33	Chicago St.	6'6	4 Sr	1.13
1882	Davis, Marcel 2	Utah Valley	6'1	4 Sr	1.11
1905	Huggins, Braxton 2	New Mexico St.	6'5	2 So	1.09
1962	Landry, Travon 0	New Mexico St.	6'1	3 Jr	1.02
1970	Penne, Jalyn 35	New Mexico St.	6'7	2 So	1.01
2092	Pride, Justin	Cal St. Bakersfield	5'10	3 Jr	1
2245	Eriobuna, Ikem	UMKC	6'9	3 Jr	1
2388	Goodman, Dayon 33	Utah Valley	6'7	2 So	0.89
2410	Ahmed, Aly 42	Cal St. Bakersfield	6'9	4 Sr	0.86
2427	Taylor, Matt 5	New Mexico St.	6'5	2 So	0.85
2448	Bhullar, Tanveer 21	New Mexico St.	7'3	2 So	0.83
2451	Gubler, Boston 45	Utah Valley	6'8	2 So	0.83
2464	Newbill, Broderick 25	UMKC	6'5	3 Jr	0.81
2617	Richmond, Dashawn 5	Cal St. Bakersfield	6'3	4 Sr	0.61
2679	Cramer, Lewis 33	Seattle	6'6	4 Sr	0.53
2698	Dimakos, Jared 11	Chicago St.	6'5	4 Sr	0.51
2724	Powell, William 21	Seattle	6'6	3 Jr	0.5

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.