All-Conference Teams from the Mid Majors

Like Division III Schools, the Ivy League offers no scholarships. Yet the conference has clearly risen to the status of “mid major,” as one of seven conferences that can go toe-to-toe with the seven power conferences.

Columbia just gave Kentucky a scare. Yale has already stunned UConn for state bragging rights. Harvard has a potential Sweet 16 team and Player of the Year in Wesley Saunders, who has a Value Add rating of 10.87, meaning he would be worth almost 11 points per game no matter how good his level of competition. 

Below are the several all-conference teams for each of the mid-major conferences.

The top two mid majors are the Atlantic 10 and the West Coast Conference–who can both make the case that they are actually better than the American Athletic Conference based on www.kenpom.com. 

Kevin Pangos has the fourth best Value Add at 11.48, meaning he is worth over 11 points to Gonzaga, which looks like an Elite 8 team. BYU has had some disappointing near misses. But has the talent to be a solid NCAA team. 

VCU has also dropped three games after the disappointing first-round exit from the tournament, but can use havoc to threaten anyone. Wichita State has two guards in the top-50 players in the country and could be a national contender.

Here are the early all-conference teams for all seven Mid-Major Conferences:

Conf	Pos	Early All-Conference	Team	Value Add	Rnk
A10	PG	2 Briante Weber	VCU	7.64	56
A10	SG	32 Melvin Johnson	VCU	6.81	82
A10	SF	22 Micah Mason	Duquesne	8.95	24
A10	PF	10 T.J. Cline	Richmond	7.29	65
A10	C	33 Alonzo Nelson-Ododa	Richmond	8.22	38
Horz	PG	25 Steve McWhorter	Milwaukee	7.59	60
Horz	PG	24 Keifer Sykes	Green Bay	5.95	122
Horz	PG	3 Trey Lewis	Cleveland St.	4.54	258
Horz	SF	32 Joe Thomasson	Wright St.	4.92	220
Horz	PF	25 Alec Peters	Valparaiso	5.86	129
Ivy	PG	20 Javier Duren	Yale	5.68	143
Ivy	SG	12 Maodo Lo	Columbia	4.61	254
Ivy	SF	23 Wesley Saunders	Harvard	10.87	6
Ivy	SF	0 Kyle Castlin	Columbia	6.16	110
Ivy	PF	30 Hans Brase	Princeton	4.11	307
MAC	PG	1 Mike Talley	Eastern Michigan	4.68	243
MAC	SG	23 Derek Jackson	Kent St.	6.84	78
MAC	SF	2 Connar Tava	Western Michigan	5.85	131
MAC	PF	1 Tucker Haymond	Western Michigan	5.47	160
MAC	C	53 Nathan Boothe	Toledo	5.46	163
MVC	PG	23 Fred Van Vleet	Wichita St.	7.92	47
MVC	SG	31 Ron Baker	Wichita St.	9.56	15
MVC	SF	11 Marcus Marshall	Missouri St.	7.88	50
MVC	PF	33 Sean O’Brien	Southern Illinois	5.74	137
MVC	C	55 Egidijus Mockevicius	Evansville	7.16	70
MWC	PG	14 Josh Adams	Wyoming	6.58	95
MWC	SG	33 Deshawn Delaney	New Mexico	5.01	214
MWC	SF	34 Chris Smith	Utah St.	5.64	148
MWC	PF	22 Larry Nance	Wyoming	7.99	46
MWC	C	14 Jalen Moore	Utah St.	6.82	80
WCC	PG	4 Kevin Pangos	Gonzaga	11.48	4
WCC	SG	1 Johnny Dee	San Diego	7.63	58
WCC	SG	5 Gary Bell	Gonzaga	6.45	98
WCC	SF	3 Tyler Haws	BYU	5.04	211
WCC	C	11 Domantas Sabonis	Gonzaga	5.53	155