Top 2016 Teams/Players: Southeastern (Ranked 2)

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. 

I am sure ACC fans will scoff at the SEC edging them out for second, but this conference is unbelievably loaded. Kentucky's rating assumes they get Thon Maker and Jamal Murray, worth 12.42, because if not they drop to fourth in the conference.
LSU has the top recruit in the country, Ben Howland of UCLA Final Four fame is quickly turning around Mississippi State, and if Bruce Pearl land Tyler Harris on a visit this weekend he could already have Auburn in the tournament.

Ironically the season after the SEC finally slipped out of the top football spot, they could be making a run at being the best basketball conference.

Natl Rnk	Conference	Team	Record	Raw	Value Add
2	Southeastern	SEC			27.60
1		Kentucky	38--1	47.43	39.68
7		Louisiana St.	22--11	47.71	36.75
10		Texas A&M	21--12	43.40	33.89
13		Vanderbilt	21--14	39.90	33.15
34		Florida	16--17	31.95	28.86
38		South Carolina	17--16	32.50	28.13
39		Mississippi	21--13	30.51	27.98
47		Georgia	21--12	26.46	26.36
58		Arkansas	27--9	22.96	24.98
68		Mississippi St.	13--19	31.01	22.97
78		Auburn	15--20	27.03	22.17
87		Tennessee	16--16	21.73	21.56
88		Alabama	19--15	18.23	21.52
112		Missouri	9--23	24.00	18.40
Natl Rnk	Top 40 Players	Team	Ht	Yr	Value Add
8	Ulis, Tyler 3	Kentucky	5'9	2 So	9.17
12	Baldwin, Wade 4	Vanderbilt	6'3	2 So	8.92
19	Simmons, Ben	Louisiana St.	6'9	1 Fr	8.5
26	Newman, Malik	Mississippi St.	6'3	1 Fr	8.1
34	Labissiere, Skal	Kentucky	6'11	1 Fr	7.78
40	LaChance, Riley 13	Vanderbilt	6'2	2 So	7.6
43	Maker, Thon	Kentucky/maybe	7'0	1 Fr	7.52
56	Moody, Stefan 42	Mississippi	5'10	4 Sr	7.22
60	Frazier, J.J. 30	Georgia	5'10	3 Jr	7.01
87	Briscoe, Isaiah	Kentucky	6'3	1 Fr	6.42
98	Taylor, Brandon 11	Texas A&M	5'10	4 Sr	6.256
111	Quarterman, Tim 55	Louisiana St.	6'6	3 Jr	6.01
119	Jones, Damian 30	Vanderbilt	6'10	3 Jr	5.92
121	Dunans, T.J.	Auburn	6'6	3 Jr	5.9
129	Hornsby, Keith 4	Louisiana St.	6'4	4 Sr	5.83
130	Patterson, Jalyn 15	Louisiana St.	6'0	2 So	5.82
131	Artis, Dominic	Texas A&M/maybe	1-Jun	3 Jr	5.8
137	Finney-Smith, Dorian 10	Florida	6'8	4 Sr	5.76
170	Blakeney, Antonio	Louisiana St.	6'3	1 Fr	5.37
219	Mulder, Mychal	Kentucky	6'4	3 Jr	5
220	Brooks, Rasheed	Mississippi	6'6	3 Jr	5
236	Murray, Jamal	Kentucky/maybe	6'3"	1 Fr	4.9
247	Moore, Armani 4	Tennessee	6'5	4 Sr	4.83
248	Beard, Anton 31	Arkansas	6'0	2 So	4.81
257	Gaines, Kenny 12	Georgia	6'3	4 Sr	4.78
263	Chiozza, Chris 11	Florida	6'0	2 So	4.75
264	Caruso, Alex 21	Texas A&M	6'5	4 Sr	4.7345
313	Saiz, Sebastian 11	Mississippi	6'9	3 Jr	4.43
356	Jones, Jalen 12	Texas A&M	6'7	4 Sr	4.165
377	Punter, Kevin 0	Tennessee	6'4	4 Sr	4.06
378	Robinson, Devin 3	Florida	6'8	2 So	4.05
398	Payne, Martavian	Missouri	6' 2"	3 Jr	4
415	Fisher-Davis, Matthew 5	Vanderbilt	6'5	2 So	3.94
420	Kingsley, Moses 33	Arkansas	6'10	2 So	3.91
441	Notice, Duane 10	South Carolina	6'2	3 Jr	3.816
471	Kornet, Luke 3	Vanderbilt	7'0	3 Jr	3.67
475	Thomas, Elijah	Texas A&M	6'9	1 Fr	3.6465
480	Stroman, Marcus 1	South Carolina	6'2	2 So	3.618
484	Woods, Russell	Missouri	6'8	3 Jr	3.6
488	Newby, Martavious 1	Mississippi	6'3	4 Sr	3.58

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.