Ellenson 31st Best Defender; MU with 4 in top 15%

It sounds like I depressed fans with Henry Ellenson's Value Add Ranking, and it slipped even further to 405th after the Stetson game. However, in response to the question about why his blocked shots and rebounds do not push him higher - the new run tonight shows he is actually the 32nd best Defensive Player in the Value Add system for taking almost three points per hundred trips a game away from opponents (-2.69, average is 0.00).

Rnk	Player and Number	OffR	DefR	Pts/Gm
100	Fischer, Luke 40	7.29	-0.8	6.2
405	Ellenson, Henry 13	2.24	-2.69	4.05
525	Cohen, Sandy 5	3.33	-0.9	3.57
539	Wilson, Duane 1	3.31	-0.66	3.51

Offensively, he is ranked only 1224th in the nation - improving the team by 2.24 points a game, due to low shooting percentages and turnovers offsetting his points. Duane Wilson and the very efficient Sandy Cohen are the two Marquette players with higher rankings because they miss so many fewer shots.

Luke Fischer has a nice balance, and snuck back into the top 100 overall.

He helps make Marquette be one of 55 teams with four players in the top 15% of players (top 600). Arizona and Iowa have the most complete rotations with 7 players each.

7 top 100 players (2 teams)

Arizona

Iowa

6 top 100 players (6 teams)

Miami FL

North Carolina

Southern California

Southern Methodist

Villanova

West Virginia

5 top 100 players (25 total teams)

Baylor

Butler

Cincinnati

Creighton

Duke

Florida

Indiana

Iowa St.

Kentucky

Louisville

Maryland

Notre Dame

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pittsburgh

Purdue

Seton Hall

South Carolina

St. Mary's

Syracuse

Texas A&M

Texas Tech

Vanderbilt

Virginia

Xavier

4 top 100 players (22 teams)

Akron

Alabama

Arizona St.

Arkansas

Brigham Young

California

Clemson

Connecticut

Dayton

Florida St.

Georgia Tech

Houston

Kansas

Marquette

Memphis

Michigan

Michigan St.

Ohio St.

Stanford

Texas

UCLA

Wisconsin