Top 2016 Teams/Players: Ohio Valley (Ranked 20)

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. 

Murray State went back on a roll last year and will hope to get back to the tournament a few years after just missing the Sweet 16. They have three solid teams to overcome, but definitely the most intimidating conference game has to be facing the intimidating cheer of "Let's go Peay!" on the trip to Austin Peay.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
20	Ohio Valley	OVC			11.89
98		Murray St.	29--6	14.61	20.02
122		Belmont	22--11	16.20	17.19
128		Eastern Kentucky	21--12	13.77	16.71
132		Tennessee Martin	21--13	15.34	16.49
190		Eastern Illinois	18--15	14.78	13.74
213		Morehead St.	17--17	6.94	11.81
228		Southeast Missouri St.	13--17	10.44	11.08
252		SIU Edwardsville	12--16	8.17	9.74
272		Tennessee Tech	12--18	7.24	8.74
306		Tennessee St.	5--26	10.24	6.85
326		Jacksonville St.	12--19	3.71	5.20
330		Austin Peay	8--22	4.29	5.08
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
270	Bradshaw, Craig 23	Belmont	6'3	4 Sr	4.7
271	Jones, Bryce	Murray St.	6'1	3 Jr	4.7
275	Moss, Jeffrey 31	Murray St.	6'4	4 Sr	4.67
321	Bradds, Evan 35	Belmont	6'7	3 Jr	4.34
409	Cleveland, Antonius 4	Southeast Missouri St.	6'6	2 So	3.96
502	Arrington, Brent 32	Morehead St.	6'3	4 Sr	3.54
543	Edwards, Kedar	Tennessee Martin	6'5	1 Fr	3.4
556	Knipp, Timmy 22	Eastern Kentucky	6'7	4 Sr	3.33
602	Anderson, Alex 3	Tennessee Martin	5'11	4 Sr	3.2
658	Horton, Chris 5	Austin Peay	6'8	4 Sr	3
670	Woodard, Johnny	Tennessee St.	6'4	1 Fr	3
736	Wallace, Marcus 11	Southeast Missouri St.	6'1	2 So	2.83
745	Johnson, Cornell 2	Eastern Illinois	5'7	2 So	2.81
842	Martinez, Javier 40	Tennessee Martin	6'7	3 Jr	2.59
878	Howard, Twymond 30	Tennessee Martin	6'6	4 Sr	2.5
881	McGlone, Isaac 5	Eastern Kentucky	6'2	3 Jr	2.49
892	Carr, C.J. 4	SIU Edwardsville	5'7	2 So	2.48
958	Egekeze, Amanze 32	Belmont	6'8	2 So	2.34
1001	Viser, LeTrell 3	Eastern Illinois	6'2	4 Sr	2.24
1029	Riley, A.J.	Eastern Illinois	6'2	3 Jr	2.2
1039	Hall, Thaddeus	Tennessee Martin	6'4	3 Jr	2.2
1056	Carter, Ladon	Tennessee Tech	6'6	4 Sr	2.17
1058	Olivier, Chris 35	Eastern Illinois	6'8	4 Sr	2.16
1133	Anderson, Trae 15	Eastern Illinois	6'4	4 Sr	2.04
1198	Loman, Demontez 11	Tennessee St.	6'6	4 Sr	1.98
1231	Jugovic, Aleksa 14	Tennessee Tech	6'3	2 So	1.92
1238	Jackson, Keaton 3	SIU Edwardsville	6'10	4 Sr	1.91
1253	Johnson, Paul 0	Eastern Kentucky	6'1	2 So	1.88
1268	Seymour, Justin 23	Murray St.	6'3	3 Jr	1.86
1353	Stewart, Donivine 32	SIU Edwardsville	6'0	4 Sr	1.75
1399	Matthews, Tommy 4	Eastern Kentucky	6'1	4 Sr	1.69
1417	Sampson, Burton 21	Belmont	6'4	2 So	1.66
1423	Townser, JaQuail 2	Jacksonville St.	6'3	4 Sr	1.65
1482	Rowe, Torrance 12	Tennessee Tech	6'1	4 Sr	1.58
1521	Reddick, Darreon 14	Tennessee St.	6'4	2 So	1.54
1542	Flomo, Kedrick 24	Murray St.	6'1	2 So	1.52
1545	Mekowulu, Christian 21	Tennessee St.	6'9	2 So	1.52
1559	Jackson, Dontay 13	Jacksonville St.	6'1	4 Sr	1.5
1563	Barnette, Taylor 20	Belmont	6'3	3 Jr	1.49
1598	Lee, Richard 4	Tennessee Martin	6'4	2 So	1.45

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.