
January Madness: Seeding the Top 68 College Basketball Players
LSU’s Ben Simmons would be the runaway No. 1 if March Madness seeded the top 68 players instead of teams.

LSU’s Ben Simmons would be the runaway No. 1 if March Madness seeded the top 68 players instead of teams.

Newly created Value Add 3.0 Basketball now creates the equivalent of a Sagarin Projection Rating for all 4000 basketball players to enable quick projections on final scores in light of basketball players being injured or returning. DonBest updates injury status on all teams here.

The top-ranked Value Add player in the country signed with USC six months after USA Today splashed a picture of USC Song Girls welcoming coach Andy Enfield as their new head basketball coach accompanied by these words: “Andy Enfield’s model wife, Amanda Marcum was there. As were the USC Song Girls. If ever there was a single image that could help USC recruit star high school basketball players, this is it.”

Duke and Oregon are about 20 points better than opening day opponents Siena and Jackson State according to www.kenpom.com, but they are the two teams that could be hurt by up to 10 points a game by injuries. The table below shows the 50 best players on the bench for opening day, and how many points they are typically worth to their team based on www.valueaddbasketball.com.

The NCAA tournament ends in four months and 21 days. The regular season starts now.

Four All-Americans give the Big Ten the toughest All-Conference team, led by Melo Trimble who hopes to lead Maryland to a Big Ten and national title. Most of the talent is concentrated in the 10 preseason All-Conference teams listed below, but All-Americans Fred VanVleet and Ron Baker of Wichita State lead the “best of the rest” from the other 23 conferences.

Breitbart Sports recently named its first preseason All-American team, with Kris Dunn of Providence the runaway Player of the Year.

Breitbart Sports releases Value Add projections today to a college basketball backdrop of an over-the-top sex scandal at Louisville, the NCAA banning gambling sites from advertising, and Chris Mullins preparing to coach his first St. John’s game after losing his

The New Orleans Pelicans got a steal in signing Anthony Davis for $145 million—the same amount the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim pay Mike Trout even though Davis provides six times as much value.

The big excitement out of the gates in the NBA Draft hinges on if the Los Angeles Lakers pick guard D’Angelo Russell out of Ohio State to play as a temporary backcourt mate and ultimate heir to Kobe Bryant.

The ballot boxes for America’s best college athletes in each state remain open.

With the Virginia vs. Vanderbilt College World Series wrapping up 2014-15 NCAA action, voting has started for the best 2015-16 student-athletes in all 50 states.

Four years after Sports Illustrated hailed the debut of Value Add Basketball, the first Value Add Football database appears today.

One of the most famous politicians won a basketball title in the only state with no Division 1 team. Before you click on the story, see if you can name the state, the player, and the five other states with only one team.

The “Tonya Harding,” dubbed so by the Atlanta Hawks radio team, who helped the Cleveland Cavaliers sweep the Atlanta Hawks is a former rugby player who “Americans hate,” according an Australian news outlet, and who has “got to learn,” according to the player who nailed him in the head with an elbow.

The Hoops Database for the People lists the top 100 teams based on current rosters. Next season’s top 100 teams aren’t this past season’s top 100 teams.

On Memorial Day it is obvious the top Value Add basketball players at each Military Academy have a lot to balance.

As the Supreme Court considers same-sex marriage laws, the first openly gay college basketball player may soon rank as the best transfer available to colleges.

Until Arizona’s Stanley Johnson opted for the NBA Thursday night, colleges were on a roll with stars picking the over the NBA or even instead of staying in high school.

Many 2016 March Madness games will be decided in the next five days when stars must choose between the NBA and one more college run.

The initial Value Add Projections for 2016 have Villanova and LSU as Final Four teams after Trevor Lacey and Bobby Portis announced for the NBA Draft Wednesday. Portis projected as the third-best returning player, but his Arkansas team dropped from 6th to 24th after his announcement.

The simple story is that three college basketball players were much better than the other 4,000. Each of those was worth more than 11 points a game to his team than what a replacement player would have provided, while no one else was worth even 10 additional points.

In 2004, Duke became the first team with three top 40 Value Add players, and today Duke becomes the first team to top that mark with four Top 40 players after the run by Justise Winslow.

Breitbart Sports ranks the top-100 players with basketball left in them in the NCAA, NIT, CBI, and CIT.

Gonzaga’s 74-62 win increased Obama’s deficit, but different rules could give him a second chance to win his bracket. Meanwhile “Our Mother,” translated as Notre Dame, will try to upset the overwhelming favorite Kentucky just as they did when they