The 100 Best College Hoops Players

The Big 12 and Big East rank as the best top-to-bottom, the Pac-12 has the best player in Delon Wright, and Kentucky has seven of the top 100, but the ACC and Big 10 combine for 24 of the top 100 players in the new rankings at www.valueaddbasketball.com. Gonzaga’s Kevin Pangos (6th) and Davidson’s Jack Gibbs (9th) lead two mid-majors with five top 100 players each. Here are the top players in all 32 conferences.

Conf	Top100	Top Rnk	Player	Team	Ht
ACC	13	8	Jerian Grant	Notre Dame	6’5″
B10	11	4	Frank Kaminsky	Wisconsin	7’0
SEC	10	2	Willie Cauley-Stein	Kentucky	7’0
BE	7	28	D’Angelo Harrison	St. John’s	6’4″
P12	6	1	Delon Wright	Utah	6’5″
WCC	5	6	Kevin Pangos	Gonzaga	6’2″
A10	5	9	Jack Gibbs	Davidson	5’11”
MVC	5	25	Egidijus Mockevicius	Evansville	6’10”
B12	5	27	Frank Mason	Kansas	5’11”
Slnd	4	14	Zikiteran Woodley	Northwestern St.	6’2″
OVC	3	3	Corey Walden	Eastern Kentucky	6’2″
BW	3	7	Michael Caffey	Long Beach St.	6’0
BSky	3	17	Tyler Harvey	Eastern Washington	6’4″
CAA	3	38	Damion Lee	Drexel	6’6″
MWC	3	44	Larry Nance	Wyoming	6’8″
Ivy	2	11	Wesley Saunders	Harvard	6’5″
Amer	2	20	Ryan Boatright	Connecticut	6’0
MAAC	2	48	A.J. English	Iona	6’4″
Pat	2	93	Cedric Hankerson	Boston University	6’5″
SB	1	12	Jelani Hewitt	Georgia Southern	6’2″
AE	1	23	Jameel Warney	Stony Brook	6’8″
Horz	1	31	Keifer Sykes	Green Bay	6’0
CUSA	1	70	T.J. Price	Western Kentucky	6’4″
WAC	1	91	Janari Joesaar	Texas Pan American	6’6″
ASun	1	96	Ty Greene	USC Upstate	6’3″
MAC	0	128	John Simons	Central Michigan	6’8″
SC	0	134	Eric Garcia	Wofford	5’11”
MEAC	0	179	Jordan Parks	North Carolina Central	6’7″
BSth	0	203	Javonte Green	Radford	6’4″
NEC	0	233	Rodney Pryor	Robert Morris	6’5″
SWAC	0	298	Chris Thomas	Texas Southern	6’5″
Sum	0	331	Jake Bittle	South Dakota St.	6’4″

ACC. Notre Dame is alone atop the ACC with a 3-0 mark and Jerian Grant ranks as the most valuable player–improving the Irish by 9.31 points per game. It will be hard to hold the top spot with Duke boasting two of the top 20 players (Jahlil Okafor at 13th and Tyus Jones at 18th) and Virginia and Louisville boasting the two top defenses in the land behind Kentucky. Ken Pomeroy has three Virginia players on his All-Conference team to date.

Big Ten. Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky is back up to 4th–improving the Badgers by 9.93 points per game to try to build on being named Breitbart Sports 1st Team All-American Center last year. Pomeroy agrees that both Kaminsky and teammate Nigel Hayes are in the top four players in the conference.

SEC. Kentucky has seven of the SEC’s top 100 players, but Alabama’s Levi Randolph has had double figures scoring and assists in every game so far to break in as the one non-Kentucky player in the Conferences Top 5.

Delon Wright is making the Value Add Player of the Year honors boring–as he has been worth almost a point and a half more than the second most valuable player, Willie Cauley-Stein. Wright has been worth 12.09 points per game to Utah, which has surged into the Top 10. Starting with his near single-handed defeat of Kansas with a 23 point performance, he has averaged an incredible 7 assists and 3+ steals a game for seven games. He has led a defense that has helped Utah win all three Pac-12 games by at least 24 points. Overall he has been worth 12.09 points per game, almost matching his projection calculated at the beginning of the season as reported by Fox Sports and ESPN the Magazine.

Rnk, Jersey Number, Player, Team, Value Add
1, 55 Delon Wright, Utah, 12.09
2, 15 Willie Cauley-Stein, Kentucky, 10.65
3, 2 Corey Walden, Eastern Kentucky, 10.04
4, 44 Frank Kaminsky, Wisconsin, 9.93
5, 1 Gary Payton, Oregon St., 9.62
6, 4 Kevin Pangos, Gonzaga, 9.49
7, 5 Michael Caffey, Long Beach St., 9.34
8, 22 Jerian Grant, Notre Dame, 9.31
9, 12 Jack Gibbs, Davidson, 9.18
10, 24 Rayvonte Rice, Illinois, 9.03
11, 23 Wesley Saunders, Harvard, 8.78
12, 5 Jelani Hewitt, Georgia Southern, 8.65
13, 15 Jahlil Okafor, Duke, 8.63
14, 23 Zikiteran Woodley, Northwestern St., 8.54
15, 30 Aaron White, Iowa, 8.46
16, 15 Alan Williams, UC Santa Barbara, 8.37
17, 1 Tyler Harvey, Eastern Washington, 8.37
18, 5 Tyus Jones, Duke, 8.34
19, 12 Karl-Anthony Towns, Kentucky, 8.30
20, 11 Ryan Boatright, Connecticut, 8.25
21, 3 Corey Hawkins, UC Davis, 8.25
22, 25 Rakeem Christmas, Syracuse, 8.16
23, 20 Jameel Warney, Stony Brook, 8.08
24, 1 Justin Anderson, Virginia, 8.01
25, 55 Egidijus Mockevicius, Evansville, 7.99
26, 2 Briante Weber, VCU, 7.91
27, 0 Frank Mason, Kansas, 7.85
28, 11 D’Angelo Harrison, St. John’s, 7.82
29, 55 Venky Jois, Eastern Washington, 7.79
30, 20 Levi Randolph, Alabama, 7.76
31, 24 Keifer Sykes, Green Bay, 7.71
32, 15 Sir’Dominic Pointer, St. John’s, 7.67
33, 3 Kennedy Meeks, North Carolina, 7.65
34, 13 Phil Forte, Oklahoma St., 7.64
35, 23 Fred Van Vleet, Wichita St., 7.61
36, 13 Anthony Gill, Virginia, 7.56
37, 4 D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera, Georgetown, 7.52
38, 14 Damion Lee, Drexel, 7.40
39, 35 Amida Brimah, Connecticut, 7.39
40, 1 Cameron Payne, Murray St., 7.37
41, 44 Dakari Johnson, Kentucky, 7.37
42, 0 Terry Rozier, Louisville, 7.34
43, 31 Ron Baker, Wichita St., 7.31
44, 22 Larry Nance, Wyoming, 7.27
45, 10 Nigel Hayes, Wisconsin, 7.26
46, 2 Melo Trimble, Maryland, 7.25
47, 40 Josh Scott, Colorado, 7.24
48, 5 A.J. English, Iona, 7.23
49, 3 Tyler Ulis, Kentucky, 7.22
50, 11 Demetrius Jackson, Notre Dame, 7.15
51, 1 Devin Booker, Kentucky, 7.13
52, 32 Desharick Guidry, McNeese St., 7.10
53, 4 Jarvis Williams, Murray St., 7.08
54, 4 Sterling Gibbs, Seton Hall, 7.05
55, 12 Maodo Lo, Columbia, 7.04
56, 3 Tyler Haws, BYU, 7.04
57, 10 Mikh McKinney, Sacramento St., 7.03
58, 1 Isaiah Williams, Iona, 7.03
59, 2 Quinn Cook, Duke, 7.01
60, 1 Johnny Dee, San Diego, 7.00
61, 23 LaDontae Henton, Providence, 6.98
62, 1 Josh Richardson, Tennessee, 6.98
63, 2 Aaron Harrison, Kentucky, 6.96
64, 21 Treveon Graham, VCU, 6.94
65, 52 Myles Turner, Texas, 6.92
66, 12 Jalan West, Northwestern St., 6.89
67, 25 Terry Tarpey, William & Mary, 6.86
68, 0 D’Angelo Russell, Ohio St., 6.85
69, 33 Kyle Wiltjer, Gonzaga, 6.84
70, 52 T.J. Price, Western Kentucky, 6.83
71, 11 Wes Washpun, Northern Iowa, 6.78
72, 11 Kevin Yogi Ferrell, Indiana, 6.75
73, 24 Montrezl Harrell, Louisville, 6.65
74, 12 Hassan Martin, Rhode Island, 6.65
75, 41 Trey Lyles, Kentucky, 6.64
76, 20 Travis Trice, Michigan St., 6.59
77, 40 Matt Stainbrook, Xavier, 6.54
78, 30 J.J. Frazier, Georgia, 6.51
79, 1 Juan’ya Green, Hofstra, 6.48
80, 24 Buddy Hield, Oklahoma, 6.47
81, 2 Derrick Marks, Boise St., 6.47
82, 4 Darrun Hilliard, Villanova, 6.44
83, 34 Jacob Parker, Stephen F. Austin, 6.44
84, 2 D.J. Newbill, Penn St., 6.43
85, 5 Kyle Collinsworth, BYU, 6.41
86, 10 Sheldon McClellan, Miami FL, 6.41
87, 10 Seth Tuttle, Northern Iowa, 6.40
88, 4 T.J. McConnell, Arizona, 6.36
89, 10 Jake Layman, Maryland, 6.36
90, 4 Tyler Kalinoski, Davidson, 6.35
91, 21 Janari Joesaar, Texas Pan American, 6.33
92, 24 Josh Hawkinson, Washington St., 6.32
93, 21 Cedric Hankerson, Boston University, 6.31
94, 23 Marvelle Harris, Fresno St., 6.17
95, 5 Chasson Randle, Stanford, 6.14
96, 5 Ty Greene, USC Upstate, 6.13
97, 4 Deandre Mathieu, Minnesota, 6.13
98, 0 Ryan Spangler, Oklahoma, 6.13
99, 5 Joey Ptasinski, Lafayette, 6.10
100, 1 Trevor Lacey, North Carolina St., 6.10