Georgia's Maten (6th best), Nova's Hart (12th) toughest MU Opponents

For the first time in four years, Marquette has three players in the 90th percentile (top 400) most valuable players in the country with Luke Fischer (189th), Haanif Cheatham (261st) and JuJuan Johnson (313th). MU fans were spoiled when MU did it from 2006 to 2013, and in 2003 all five MU starters made it including No. 3 Dwyane Wade and No. 39 Travis Diener being in the 99th percentile, or top 1% of all players.

Below is a list of the top 50 players at Value Add Basketball that you will see if you watch the rest of Marquette's games. While Villanova's Josh Hart is making his case for Player of the Year as the 12th most valuable to date, MU faces an even more valuable opponent Sunday in 6-foot-8 Yante Maten of Georgia. Maten scored 30 points against Kansas and could not miss in the first half, and he is ranked among national leaders in blocked shots and rebounds and actually leads the Bulldogs in steals.

The "Actual Value" shows how many points per 100 trips the player is worth to his team per 100 offensive and defensive trips (Value Add 3.0), while the "If Go To" shows how many they would project to be worth if they received the ball at least 16% of the time (Value Add 4.0).

Below I list players by their actual value, but right now www.valueaddbasketball.com ranks by the projected value:

Rnk	Player	Team	Ht	Actual Val	If GoTo
6	Yante Maten, #1	Georgia	6'8"	13.34	13.34
12	Josh Hart, #3	Villanova	6'5"	12.55	13.80
19	Rodney Pryor, #23	Georgetown	6'5"	12.13	12.13
29	Rodney Bullock, #5	Providence	6'8"	11.71	11.71
37	Ethan Happ, #22	Wisconsin	6'10"	11.17	11.17
40	JP Macura, #55	Xavier	6'5"	10.98	13.18
45	Mikal Bridges, #25	Villanova	6'7"	10.75	13.95
51	Eli Cain, #11	DePaul	6'6"	10.60	10.60
83	Khadeen Carrington, #0	Seton Hall	6'4"	9.65	10.62
90	Keenan Simmons, #45	SIU Edwardsville	6'6"	9.57	15.79
121	Khyri Thomas, #2	Creighton	6'3"	8.91	11.92
140	Jahmel Taylor, #5	Fresno St.	6'0	8.55	13.27
153	Josh Nebo, #32	St. Francis PA	6'8"	8.32	9.34
181	LJ Peak, #0	Georgetown	6'5"	7.97	8.77
189	Luke Fischer, #40	Marquette	6'11"	7.84	10.02
193	Shamorie Ponds, #2	St. John's	6'1"	7.78	8.56
215	Kris Jenkins, #2	Villanova	6'6"	7.57	7.57
220	Trevon Bluiett, #5	Xavier	6'6"	7.54	7.54
227	JJ Frazier, #30	Georgia	5'10"	7.42	8.90
246	Andrew Chrabascz, #45	Butler	6'7"	7.23	9.06
261	Haanif Cheatham, #25	Marquette	6'5"	7.11	8.33
275	Justin Patton, #23	Creighton	7'0	7.04	10.06
277	Edmond Sumner, #4	Xavier	6'6"	7.03	7.73
289	Cullen Russo, #13	Fresno St.	6'9"	6.95	8.17
298	Keith Braxton, #13	St. Francis PA	6'4"	6.87	6.87
305	Bronson Koenig, #24	Wisconsin	6'3"	6.81	7.49
313	JaJuan Johnson, #23	Marquette	6'5"	6.77	6.82
316	Marcus LoVett, #15	St. John's	6'0	6.75	8.09
324	Nigel Hayes, #10	Wisconsin	6'8"	6.70	6.70
376	Kamar Baldwin, #3	Butler	6'0	6.37	10.32
392	Emmitt Holt, #15	Providence	6'7"	6.25	6.88
407	Tre'Darius McCallum, #10	DePaul	6'7"	6.14	6.66
433	Jalen Brunson, #1	Villanova	6'2"	6.00	7.20
434	Myles Powell, #13	Seton Hall	6'2"	6.00	7.81
486	Tyler Lewis, #1	Butler	5'11"	5.71	9.55
535	Desi Rodriguez, #20	Seton Hall	6'6"	5.45	5.45
603	Jalen Lindsey, #21	Providence	6'7"	5.13	8.31
612	Avery Woodson, #0	Butler	6'2"	5.06	9.30
613	Donte DiVincenzo, #10	Villanova	6'5"	5.06	7.78
633	Marcus Foster, #0	Creighton	6'3"	4.93	5.43
652	Tyler Wideman, #4	Butler	6'8"	4.84	7.23
659	Sean O'Mara, #54	Xavier	6'10"	4.81	8.13
660	Darrick Wood, #1	DePaul	6'5"	4.80	8.55
680	Zak Showalter, #3	Wisconsin	6'3"	4.72	9.04
716	Darryl Reynolds, #45	Villanova	6'9"	4.52	7.71
757	Sam Hauser, #10	Marquette	6'7"	4.33	7.81
762	Kelan Martin, #30	Butler	6'7"	4.32	4.32
792	Angel Delgado, #31	Seton Hall	6'10"	4.19	4.19
810	Maurice Watson, #10	Creighton	5'10"	4.12	4.94
826	Michael Nzei, #1	Seton Hall	6'8"	4.05	7.04