50 Best College Players on Bench for Opening Day

Here are the 50 biggest injuries heading into college basketball's opening day - and how each player's absence should impact the margin of the final score.

Team/How Long Out	Player	Ht	Rnk	Points
Arizona St./short	Goodman, Savon 11	6'6	412	3.84
Arizona/Season	Smith, Ray	6'7	125	6.09
Auburn/Indef	Shamsid-Deen, Tahj 13	5'10	1034	2.02
Baylor/Indef	Acuil, Joseph	6'10	167	5.5
Baylor/Indef	McClure, King	6'3	917	2.23
Butler/Dec	Gathers, Jordan	6'3	1054	2
Central Michigan/short	Fowler, Chris 15	6'1	232	4.91
Chicago St./Dec	Owens, Clemmye 21	6'1	895	2.3
Drexel/Dec	Overton, Miles 20	6'4	941	2.2
Duke/short	Jefferson, Amile 21	6'9	88	6.61
Duke/short	Jones, Matt 13	6'5	369	4.03
Elon/short	Samson, Tanner 3	6'4	575	3.12
Florida/Dec	Murphy, Alex 5	6'8	1062	2
Georgia/short	Frazier, J.J. 30	5'10	73	7.01
Gonzaga/short	Sabonis, Domantas 11	6'10	17	8.7
Houston U/Indef	Rose, L.J. 5	6'4	1066	2
Illinois/Dec	Nunn, Kendrick 25	6'3	285	4.59
Illinois/Dec	Black, Leron 12	6'7	637	2.91
Iowa St./Dec	Burton, Deonte 30	6'4	341	4.2
Kansas/Indef	Diallo, Cheick	6'9	78	6.8
Louisiana St./Dec	Victor, Craig 3	6'7	806	2.5
Maryland/Season	Wiley, Dion 5	6'4	1191	1.8
Michigan St./Indef	Clark, Marvin 0	6'6	529	3.27
Mississippi St./short	Newman, Malik	6'3	31	8.1
Montana/Indef	Dunn, Mario 1	6'0	571	3.14
Nevada/Dec	Marshall, Marcus 11	6'3	418	3.81
North Carolina/Dec	Paige, Marcus 5	6'1	16	8.81
NORTHERN COLORADO/Dec	Anglin, Dallas 4	6'2	640	2.9
Northwestern/Season	Law, Vic 4	6'7	458	3.56
Oakland/Dec	Dorsey-Walker, Sherron 4	6'4	852	2.4
Oklahoma St./short	Evans, Jawun	6'0	421	3.79
Oregon/Indef	Bell, Jordan 1	6'7	134	5.91
Oregon/Indef	Ennis, Dylan 31	6'2	276	4.64
Pittsburgh/short	Wilson, Damon	6'4	1018	2.06
Rhode Island/Dec	Iverson, Kuran 23	6'10	854	2.4
Rider/short	Sadler, Zedric 2	6'3	483	3.47
Rutgers/short	Sanders, Corey	6'1	897	2.29
Southern Methodist/Dec	Ojeleye, Semi 30	6'8	523	3.3
Southern Methodist/Season	Emelogu, Ben 21	6'5	1098	1.95
St. Johns/Season	LoVett, Marcus	6'0	1003	2.09
Stanford/Indef	Allen, Marcus 15	6'3	410	3.84
Stanford/Season	Cartwright, Robert 2	6'2	922	2.22
Tennessee Martin/Dec	Woodson, Dominic 55	6'10	1070	2
Texas Christian/Season	Williams, Kenrich 34	6'7	128	6.01
Utah St./Quit	Collette, David 13	6'8	71	7.04
Wake Forest/Dec	Miller-McIntyre, Codi 0	6'3	540	3.22
Wake Forest/Indef	Hudson, Cornelius 25	6'6	1232	1.74
Western Michigan/Indef	Tava, Connar 2	6'6	587	3.07
WICHITA St./Dec	Frankamp, Conner	6'0	1053	2
Wisconsin Green Bay/short	Love, Carrington 12	6'1	556	3.19

The 15 Preseason All-Americans; Dunn POY

See my Breitbart Sports story on the 15 preseason All-Americans. See post below for top teams.

68 Tournament Teams and First 8 Out Based on Value Add

As we gear up for the tipoff of basketball this year, we have a slightly adjusted Final Four based on the highest rankings of all players at www.valueaddbasketball.com. Now Maryland would face Duke in one semifinal, and Kentucky would face Arizona in the other - and AP No. 1 UNC ranked 5th. The adjustments to the rankings listed in the Breitbart Sports story November 2 are the result of removed 26 incorrect players in the database of almost 4000 players (thus lowering those teams) and discovering five teams were missing key players worth five points or more a game:

Rnk	Player	Team	Ht	Yr	Off	Def	Off	Pos-State	Conf
90	Harris, Eron	Michigan St.	6'3	2 So	6.54	0	6.54	SG-MI	B10
103	Drmic, Anthony 3	Boise St.	6'6	2 So	6.38	0	6.38	SF-ID	MWC
123	Rathan-Mayes, Xavier 22	Florida St.	6'4	1 Fr	4	-2.15	6.15	PG-FL	ACC
144	Moss, Justin	Buffalo	6'7	3 Jr	3.49	-2.31	5.8	C-NY	MAC
155	Carter, Robert	Maryland	6'8	2 So	4	-1.72	5.72	PF-MD	ACC

The following are the new rankings of all the teams who would make the tournament either by winning their conference or getting an at-large bid - and we list the next eight teams out.

Rnk	Team	1st Sem	Value Add	Conf	NCAA bid
1	Kentucky	54.92	54.92	SEC	auto
2	Duke	54.26	54.26	ACC	auto
3	Maryland	52.85	52.85	b10	auto
4	Arizona	50.94	50.94	P12	auto
5	North Carolina	50.19	50.19	ACC	at-large
6	Kansas	49.71	49.71	B12	auto
7	Virginia	45.33	45.33	ACC	at-large
8	Wichita St.	43.23	45.23	MVC	auto
9	Michigan St.	44.55	44.55	B10	at-large
10	Utah	44.17	44.17	P12	at-large
11	Baylor	42.84	42.84	B12	at-large
12	Villanova	42.61	42.61	BE	auto
13	Purdue	41.87	41.87	B10	at-large
14	Oklahoma	41.73	41.73	B12	at-large
15	Notre Dame	41.09	41.09	ACC	at-large
16	Ohio St.	40.44	40.44	B10	at-large
17	Vanderbilt	40.39	40.39	SEC	at-large
18	Louisville	40.08	40.08	ACC	at-large
19	Gonzaga	39.87	39.87	WCC	auto
20	Oregon	39.78	39.78	P12	at-large
21	Louisiana St.	36.91	39.41	SEC	at-large
22	Wisconsin	39.34	39.34	B10	at-large
23	Indiana	38.18	38.18	B10	at-large
24	Florida St.	38.07	38.07	ACC	at-large
25	Iowa St.	33.14	37.34	B12	at-large
26	Texas	36.86	36.86	B12	at-large
27	California	36.47	36.47	P12	at-large
28	Cincinnati	36.41	36.41	Amer	auto
29	Pittsburgh	36.39	36.39	ACC	at-large
31	San Diego St.	35.88	35.88	MWC	auto
32	West Virginia	35.45	35.45	B12	at-large
33	Michigan	35.29	35.29	B10	at-large
34	Georgetown	34.63	34.63	BE	at-large
35	Rhode Island	32.04	34.44	A10	auto
36	Butler	31.94	33.94	BE	at-large
37	Connecticut	33.53	33.53	Amer	at-large
38	Xavier	32.62	32.62	BE	at-large
39	Oklahoma St.	32.43	32.43	B12	at-large
40	UAB	32.13	32.13	CUSA	auto
41	Miami FL	31.28	31.28	ACC	at-large
42	Oregon St.	30.93	30.93	P12	at-large
43	Illinois	30.84	30.84	B10	at-large
44	Iowa	30.67	30.67	B10	at-large
45	Clemson	30.67	30.67	ACC	at-large
46	Davidson	30.63	30.63	A10	last 4 in
47	MEMPHIS	30.52	30.52	Amer	last 4 in
48	Texas A&M	30.27	30.27	SEC	last 4 in
49	Nevada Las Vegas	29.97	29.97	MWC	last 4 in
58	Stephen F. Austin	27.73	27.73	Slnd	auto
68	Valparaiso	26.2	26.2	Horz	auto
75	Central Michigan	24.43	24.43	MAC	auto
82	Iona	23.27	23.27	MAAC	auto
86	Vermont	22.43	22.43	AE	auto
91	Hawaii	21.57	21.57	BW	auto
98	Chattanooga	19.61	20.91	SC	auto
104	Louisiana Lafayette	20.29	20.29	SB	auto
105	Princeton	20.01	20.01	Ivy	auto
110	Mount St. Mary's	18.75	18.75	NEC	auto
118	South Dakota St.	18.08	18.08	Sum	auto
120	Hofstra	17.99	17.99	CAA	auto
123	New Mexico St.	17.57	17.57	WAC	auto
128	Montana	17.13	17.13	BSky	auto
133	Lehigh	16.61	16.61	Pat	auto
135	Belmont	16.25	16.25	OVC	auto
137	High Point	16.06	16.06	BSth	auto
146	North Florida	15.27	15.27	ASun	auto
158	Howard	14.39	14.39	MEAC	auto
183	Southern	12.78	12.78	SWAC	auto
50	South Carolina	29.68	29.68	SEC	1st four out
51	Seton Hall	29.38	29.38	BE	1st four out
52	Florida	27.96	29.36	SEC	1st four out
53	Stanford	29.01	29.01	P12	1st four out
54	Syracuse	28.68	28.68	ACC	2nd four out
55	Pepperdine	28.45	28.45	WCC	2nd four out
56	Marquette	28.28	28.28	BE	2nd four out
57	Mississippi St.	28.16	28.16	SEC	2nd four out

The following teams lost points in the database due to previous receiving credit for a player who had either left the team or was duplicated in the system:

Albany - Andrews, Jamir - duplicate

College of Charleston - Johnson, Theo - wrong team

Colorado St. - DeCiman, Joe 10 - duplicate

Georgia Tech - Poole, Solomon - wrong team

Houston Baptist - Joyce, Cody - wrong team

Illinois St. - Samuel, Jamaal - wrong team

Indiana - Zeisloft, Nick - duplicate

Louisiana Lafayette - Brown, Kevin - wrong team

Louisiana Monroe - Grieves, Daniel - wrong team

Loyola Marymount - Dickinson, Ben - wrong team

Maine - Lawton, Shaun - duplicate

Manhattan - Lawrence, Jermaine - duplicate

Maryland - Mitchell, Charles - wrong team

Maryland Eastern Shore - Baxter, Hakeem - wrong team

Ohio - Taylor, Ryan 14 - wrong team

Oregon St. - Cooke, Hallice - wrong team

South Florida - Heath, Josh - wrong team

Stony Brook - Walker, Ahmad - duplicate

Temple - Brown, Josh - duplicate

Tennessee St. - Bates, Alex - wrong team

Texas Arlington - Williams, Brandon - duplicate

Umass Lowell - Harris, Matt 22 - duplicate

Umass Lowell - Thomas, Jahad 10 - duplicate

UNC Greensboro - Smith, Marvin 1 - wrong team

Vanderbilt - McClellan, Eric - wrong team

Virginia Tech - Emelogu, Ben - wrong team