Cremo's Visit to Nova Could Insure Nova top BE Spot of Marquette in Updated Value Add Projections

Joe Cremo's visit to Villanova could be good for the conference if not for Marquette's chances to win a Big East title. While the defending National Champions have an 18-point lead in projected Value Add over Marquette for the top spot in the Big East, that could be cut to less than four points if both Omari Spellman (8.01) and Donte DiVincenzo (7.84) leave for the NBA. Adding Cremo's 7.06 (65th best-projected player) widens the gap. (www.valueaddbasketball.com will be updated in a week, but for now, the updates on the bottom of this post are only in the google sheet).

As much as I'd love the best shot possible to win the Big East one of these years, the fact that Villanova lets the Big East claim two of the last three national championships seems more important for the overall resume, Value Add projects five NCAA bids with St. John's the third team out and Butler the sixth team out.

Georgetown's signing of Omer Yurtseven (7.04 rating after transferring from NC State) would make the Hoya's a tournament team if he did not need to sit out a year. The other big pickups calculated in the 2020 column below are St. John's David Caraher (3.32) and Eli Wright (2.5), DePaul's Darious Hall (2.08) and of course Koby McEwen (2.36).

Rnk	Change	Team By Conference	2019 Roster	2020 Defer	NCAA	Seed	1st Opponent
2	1	Villanova	57.26		auto bid	1	Vermont-Howard winner
26	-1	Marquette	39.17	2.36	at-large	7	Notre Dame
34	0	Providence	36.36		at-large	9	Kansas St.
36	2	Creighton	36.15		at-large	9	Northeastern
47	8	Xavier	34.07		at-large	12.5	Iowa St. then Virginia Tech
52	-2	St. John's	32.91	5.82	3rd out
56	-2	Butler	32.25	0.7	6th out
90	-2	Georgetown	26.79	7.54
120	-6	Seton Hall	24.39
152	-22	DePaul	22.16	2.08

And here are the most significant pickups.

Player	Rnk	Projected Value	2019 TEAM	Updates after 4/27
Romeo Langford/Crystal Ball	22	8.2	Indiana	crystal shifted Kansas to Indiana
Joe Cremo #24	65	7.06	Available	"visits to Kansas and Villanova http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/university-of-kansas/article210214699.html https://www.vuhoops.com/2018/4/30/17301418/villanova-basketball-recruiting-joe-cremo-transfer-visit
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Dru Smith/2020	89	6.78	Missouri	signed with Missouri
Wendell Mitchell	113	6.5	Texas A&M	Texas A&M signing
Charles Jones Jr	114	6.5	Utah	upgraded due to JUCO POY
Jordan Brown/Crystal Ball	150	6.1	Nevada	crystal ball says Nevada
Matt Mooney #13/could stay	154	6.06	South Dakota	https://twitter.com/moonswag13?lang=en still might stay South Dakota
Kavell Bigby-Williams 35	326	4.606	LSU	did sign LSU last year, not clear if issues with dismissed charges at Oregon
Justin Coleman		4.16	Arizona	corrected his projection to 4.16, signed april
Trey McGowens/crystal ball		2.7	Pittsburgh	crystal ball
Trace Ramey/crystal ball		2.6	Texas	crystal ball
Uros Plavsic		2.6	Cleveland St.	upgrade rating to 2.6
Isaac Likekele/crystal ball		2.26	Texas Tech	switched from Fresno
Brison Gresham 55/2020		1.85	Houston	https://247sports.com/college/massachusetts/Bolt/REPORT-Jarreau-Gresham-set-to-join-Houston-Cougars-in-2018-19-105348099
Emmitt Matthews Jr/Crystal Ball		1.6	West Virginia	crystal ball
Dejon Jarreau 3/2020		1.57	Houston	leaving but JUCO in between https://247sports.com/college/massachusetts/Bolt/REPORT-Jarreau-Gresham-set-to-join-Houston-Cougars-in-2018-19-105348099
Robert Braswell/Crystal Ball		1.52	Syracuse	crystal ball
Lukas Kisunas/Crystal Ball		1.35	Stanford	shifted Arizona to Stanford
Bryce Golden/Crystal Ball		1.28	Syracuse	shifted Syracuse to Butler
Xavier Johnson/crystal ball		1.02	Pittsburgh	switched from Nebraska
Majur Majak/crystal ball		0.82	St. Peter's	crystal ball
Neftali Alvarez/crystal ball		0.7	Florida Gulf Coast	crystal ball
Maurice Calloo/Crystal Ball		0.65	Oklahoma St.	crystal ball shifted Illinois to Oklahoma St.
Amir Harris/crystal ball		0.47	Nebraska	crystal ball
Mike Wynn/crystal ball		0.44	Mississippi	shifted from East Carolina to Mississippi
Junior Farquhar/Crystal Ball		0.05	SMU	crystal ball

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