Updating Team Projections after NBA agents: Creighton up to #29 UPDATED KANSAS #5

Villanova still ranks 3rd in the country despite losing Mikal Bridges and Jalen Brunson to NBA agents and would have the top Big East squad even if Omari Spellman and Donte DiVincenzo join them.

Access the national story above by clicking here, and the Cracked Story list of all 351 team projections with a list of potential NBA players still included in that projection. For example, the total of Villanova's current players and open roster spots is 55.60 based on the cumulative of their 2019 player projections at www.valueaddbasketball.com (google sheet version here), but we note on the table that Donte DiVincenzo's 7.84 and Omari Spellman's 4.96 is included.

DiVincenzo, Spellman's and other prospects who have not signed agents but based on my reading of CBS Sports guru Reid Forgrave and others are legit prospects. I did list Haanif Cheatham for Florida Gulf Coast just because of the Marquette connection, but really I wouldn't normally list a player who does not seem to have a legit shot this year).

Keep in mind these are not anticipated FINAL projections. Blue chip programs with opportunity to play will certainly get blue chip recruits and transfers to shoot up - and as I've noted Marquette's signing of Sr. Graduate point guard Joseph Chartouny (best returning defensive guard in country) or Joe Cremo (3rd best overall available player in country behind only two 5-star freshman) gives Marquette a legit Sweet 16 squad.

The other Big East team that shot back up in the calculation is Creighton due to the news report that Khyri Thomas has not signed an agent. Thomas would be a top 30 player according to www.valueaddbasketball.com projections if he were to return, and that would make Creighton's current roster 28th.

Do recall that if you spot any inaccuracies or outdated data at the Value Add site you can make a note in column a here and it will be corrected and updated.

The Big East at this snapshot with their national rankings are; 3) Villanova, 26) Marquette, 29) Creighton, 36) Providence, 40) Xavier, 49) St. John's, 53) Butler, 87) Georgetown, 125) DePaul, 151) Seton Hall. Every time a team signs a new recruit, JUCO or graduated senior, that player's value will be added to their total (currently all those potential players are in the database and google sheet are listed with the team "available." until they sign. (the four teams in bold had updates based on catches by readers in the google sheet. The only one that moved a team was Kansas, who with the addition of Dedric Lawson (inadvertent omission after sitting out last season) they jumped from 27th to 5th)

Rnk	Team	Project Value Add	No agent, but could be drafted by NBA
1	Kentucky	59.16	Sacha Killeya-Jones transfer a wash because should get 2.22 back when they fill spot; possible NBA Washington 5.65, Vanderbilt 5.17, Gabriel 4.93
2	Auburn	56.21	Austin Wiley 6.0
3	Villanova	55.6	DiVincenzo 7.84, Spellman 4.96
4	Duke	54.23
5	Kansas	51.38	up 22 spots - 12th best player Dedric Lawson was missing as transfer - pot. NBA Azubuike 7.03
6	Oregon	50.92	lost Kavell Bigby-Williams 4.60
7	UNC	48.78
8	Tennessee	48.39	Schofield 6.98, Alexander 5.89
9	Nevada	48.2	add transfers Corey Henson (6.78), Jazz Johnson (5.81), but must drop from 15-man rosters; NBA possible Co. Martin 7.85, Ca. Martin 7.51, Caroline 7.01
10	Gonzaga	45.99	Tillie 7.55, Hachimura 5.62
11	Mississippi St.	45.85	Holman 7.58, Q. Weatherspoon 6.93, N. Weatherspoon 5.12, Peters 2.28
12	Maryland	45.7	Huerter 7.82, Fernando 6.20
13	Virginia	45.64	Hunter 6.55
14	Syracuse	45.5	Battle 7.70 , Brissett 7.69
15	UCLA	45.23	Hands 5.19, Wilkes 4.91
16	LSU	44.15
17	North Carolina St.	42.67
18	Ohio St.	41.95	Bates-Diop 10.66
19	Virginia Tech	41.52	Alexander-Walker 4.25
20	Michigan St.	41.44	Ward 6.64
21	Alabama	40.85	Hall 7.70, Petty 4.96, Jones 2.48
22	Miami FL	40.48	Huell 6.53
23	Florida	39.94	Hudson 6.61
24	USC	39.67
25	Texas	39.4	Roach 5.03
26	Montana	39.13
27	Marquette	39.02
28	Kansas St.	38.52	Brown 5.84
29	Creighton	38.5	Thomas 8.03
30	Florida St.	38.19
31	Arizona St.	38.02
32	Iowa	36.88	Cook 4.97, Moss 3.42
33	TCU	36.75
34	Northeastern	36.74
35	Boston College	36.4	Robinson 8.53, Bowman 6.14
36	Providence	36.27
37	Notre Dame	36.15
38	Iowa St.	35.92	Wigginton 3.83
39	Indiana	35.64
40	Xavier	35.32
41	BYU	35.28
42	Michigan	35.08
43	San Diego St.	34.93	McDaniels 8.02
44	Fresno St.	34.9	Taylor 5.63
45	Texas Tech	34.9	Smith 8.87
46	Northwestern	34.84
47	Davidson	34.81
48	Houston	34.69
49	St. John's	34.62	Ponds 7.81
50	Washington	34.33
51	Wake Forest	34.32
52	Vanderbilt	34.12
53	Butler	34.11
54	West Virginia	33.86	Konate 7.29
55	South Dakota St.	33.84
56	Purdue	33.66	Edwards 8.94
57	Clemson	33.44	Reed 8.01, Mitchell 5.20
58	Texas A&M	33.32	Davis 8.43, Hogg 5.54
59	Loyola Chicago	32.73
60	Nebraska	32.25	Palmer 7.08, Copeland 6.69
61	Mississippi	31.81	Davis 3.78
62	Missouri	31.67	J. Porter 6.93
63	Arizona	31.5
64	Penn St.	31.31	Reaves 7.19
65	Baylor	31.07
66	Dayton	30.75	Antetokoumpo 3.77
67	Oklahoma St.	30.49
68	Stanford	30.24
69	SMU	29.93	Milton 6.09, Foster 3.70
70	Marshall	29.69	Elmore 7.79
71	Minnesota	29.58
72	Buffalo	29.39
73	Oklahoma	29.16
74	Cincinnati	29.06
75	UNC Greensboro	29.04
76	San Diego	28.97
77	Georgia Tech	28.44	Okogie 6.56
78	Wisconsin	28.21	Happ 8.76
79	Georgia St.	28.05	Simonds 4.57
80	New Mexico	28.01
81	Rhode Island	27.97
82	Belmont	27.91
83	Arkansas	27.89
84	Wofford	27.71	Magee 6.97
85	Temple	27.69
86	Louisville	27.56
87	Georgetown	27.55
88	St. Bonaventure	27.31
89	Connecticut	27.06
90	Northern Kentucky	27.03
91	Illinois	26.98
92	Murray St.	26.88
93	Lipscomb	26.81
94	Rider	26.39
95	UC Davis	26.36
96	Louisiana Lafayette	26.34
97	Richmond	26.3
98	Toledo	26.27
99	Oregon St.	26.25
100	Northern Iowa	26.18
101	Ball St.	26.14
102	Liberty	26.13
103	Furman	26.12
104	Southern Illinois	26.04
105	North Texas	25.99
106	Northern Colorado	25.99
107	Akron	25.72
108	South Carolina	25.71
109	Georgia Southern	25.61
110	Memphis	25.59
111	Saint Mary's	25.43
112	Georgia	25.36
113	Saint Louis	25.36
114	Middle Tennessee	25.35
115	Canisius	25.12
116	Fort Wayne	24.99
117	Rutgers	24.91
118	New Mexico St.	24.89
119	Jacksonville St.	24.87
120	Hofstra	24.74	Wright-Foreman 6.35
121	Saint Joseph's	24.7
122	Harvard	24.68
123	Utah St.	24.62
124	South Dakota	24.45
125	DePaul	24.41
126	Old Dominion	24.4
127	Tulsa	24.39
128	Eastern Michigan	24.33
129	Colorado	24.21
130	Radford	24.21
131	UC Irvine	24.15
132	UCF	24.01
133	Vermont	24.01
134	Illinois St.	23.91
135	Stephen F. Austin	23.82
136	Cornell	23.79	Morgan 6.47
137	Tulane	23.78	Frazier 6.35
138	Valparaiso	23.48
139	Pacific	23.36
140	Weber St.	23.31
141	Utah Valley	23.3
142	Western Kentucky	23.23
143	Southern Miss	23.2
144	Idaho St.	23.11
145	UTSA	23
146	Austin Peay	22.71
147	St. Francis PA	22.71
148	Campbell	22.68	Clemons 5.66
149	Wright St.	22.57
150	College of Charleston	22.48
151	Seton Hall	22.48
152	Iona	22.45
153	William & Mary	22.38
154	Eastern Washington	22.35
155	Ohio	22.31
156	Bradley	22.29
157	Massachusetts	22.1
158	Central Michigan	22.09
159	Winthrop	22.09
160	Indiana St.	22.01
161	Cal St. Fullerton	21.97
162	Southeast Missouri St.	21.68
163	Yale	21.65
164	San Francisco	21.22
165	UAB	21.1
166	Columbia	21.08
167	Illinois Chicago	21.08
168	Towson	20.98
169	Princeton	20.97
170	James Madison	20.83
171	Northern Illinois	20.8	German 5.87
172	Missouri St.	20.7
173	Grand Canyon	20.64
174	Loyola Marymount	20.61
175	UNLV	20.6
176	Pepperdine	20.5
177	VCU	20.36
178	Wyoming	20.36	James 5.42
179	Charleston Southern	20.35
180	East Tennessee St.	20.29
181	Penn	20.28
182	Hartford	20.05
183	Kent St.	20.04
184	Lehigh	19.94
185	UT Arlington	19.76
186	Evansville	19.7
187	La Salle	19.61
188	North Florida	19.5
189	Louisiana Tech	19.46
190	UNC Asheville	19.45
191	Florida Gulf Coast	19.37
192	Western Michigan	19.28
193	South Alabama	19.23
194	Wichita St.	19.21
195	George Mason	19.13
196	Troy	19.13
197	Colorado St.	19.1
198	NJIT	18.96
199	Seattle	18.82
200	Duquesne	18.59
201	Louisiana Monroe	18.53
202	Texas Southern	18.5
203	Coastal Carolina	18.38
204	UNC Wilmington	18.2
205	Portland St.	18.18
206	Southeastern Louisiana	18.17
207	Milwaukee	18.1
208	Colgate	17.97
209	Lamar	17.9
210	Utah	17.9
211	Washington St.	17.84	Franks 5.43
212	Montana St.	17.82
213	Miami OH	17.76
214	Monmouth	17.61
215	Wagner	17.48
216	Idaho	17.24
217	Drexel	17.21
218	FIU	17.17
219	Fairleigh Dickinson	17.1
220	North Dakota	17.1
221	Bowling Green	17.07	Wiggins 3.67
222	California	17.01
223	Nebraska Omaha	16.9
224	Elon	16.89
225	Saint Peter's	16.86
226	UC Santa Barbara	16.66
227	Delaware	16.47
228	Boston University	16.45
229	Hawaii	16.43
230	Eastern Kentucky	16.38
231	Niagara	16.28
232	Robert Morris	16.28
233	Boise St.	16.25
234	LIU Brooklyn	16.25
235	Texas St.	16.11
236	Denver	16.1
237	Tennessee St.	16.07
238	Nicholls St.	15.98
239	Sam Houston St.	15.84
240	Albany	15.58
241	Air Force	15.56
242	Appalachian St.	15.51
243	UMBC	15.48
244	Fairfield	15.4
245	North Dakota St.	15.29
246	Stony Brook	15.27
247	Oral Roberts	15.25
248	Hampton	15.23
249	Oakland	15.09
250	High Point	15.07
251	Drake	14.96
252	Cal St. Bakersfield	14.93
253	Long Beach St.	14.9
254	George Washington	14.87
255	Navy	14.6
256	Brown	14.54
257	Army	14.48
258	Manhattan	14.38
259	Binghamton	14.29
260	Quinnipiac	13.93
261	Howard	13.92
262	Fordham	13.79
263	Jacksonville	13.78
264	New Orleans	13.76
265	Mercer	13.75
266	Mount St. Mary's	13.68
267	Charlotte	13.55	White 3.34, Davis 2.24
268	Bucknell	13.53
269	Eastern Illinois	13.43
270	Chattanooga	13.35
271	Detroit	13.25	Chatman 4.70
272	Santa Clara	13.15
273	Central Arkansas	13
274	The Citadel	12.92
275	Abilene Christian	12.88
276	Morehead St.	12.8
277	Holy Cross	12.77
278	Gardner Webb	12.7
279	St. Francis NY	12.68
280	Western Carolina	12.62
281	Tennessee Martin	12.53
282	Southern Utah	12.45
283	Alabama St.	12.42
284	Dartmouth	12.32
285	Sacramento St.	12.32
286	American	12.29
287	Bethune Cookman	12.26
288	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	12.16
289	Portland	12.12
290	Little Rock	12.08
291	Prairie View A&M	12.08
292	Tennessee Tech	11.83
293	Central Connecticut	11.81
294	Siena	11.81
295	Green Bay	11.8
296	North Carolina Central	11.78
297	McNeese St.	11.7
298	Lafayette	11.68
299	UMass Lowell	11.55
300	South Florida	11.51
301	UTEP	11.45
302	Sacred Heart	11.18
303	Marist	11.12
304	Samford	11.09
305	North Carolina A&T	11.07
306	Loyola MD	10.86
307	IUPUI	10.76
308	Pittsburgh	10.74
309	Arkansas St.	10.73
310	New Hampshire	10.72
311	Youngstown St.	10.63
312	Norfolk St.	10.56
313	UMKC	10.48
314	Western Illinois	10.47
315	Arkansas Pine Bluff	10.44
316	Southern	10.41
317	Rice	10.36
318	Cal Poly	10.28
319	Stetson	10.19
320	Northwestern St.	9.89
321	East Carolina	9.87
322	Northern Arizona	9.86
323	Savannah St.	9.79
324	Cal St. Northridge	9.61
325	UC Riverside	9.52
326	UT Rio Grande Valley	9.44
327	Cleveland St.	9.28
328	Florida Atlantic	9.02
329	Florida A&M	9.01
330	Houston Baptist	9
331	Maryland Eastern Shore	8.96
332	Delaware St.	8.7
333	VMI	8.63
334	Kennesaw St.	8.52
335	Maine	7.96
336	Grambling St.	7.92
337	South Carolina St.	7.68
338	SIU Edwardsville	7.5
339	Morgan St.	7.39
340	Incarnate Word	7.36
341	San Jose St.	7.26
342	Presbyterian	7.21
343	Jackson St.	7.19
344	USC Upstate	7.07
345	Bryant	6.99
346	Chicago St.	6.51
347	Mississippi Valley St.	6.41
348	Alcorn St.	5.54
349	Longwood	5.16
350	Coppin St.	5.15
351	Alabama A&M	4.8