Projected 1st Round March Madness Match-ups; Recent Transfer Winners and Losers

After another 100+ updates this weekend on transfers, signings, NBA departures and other college basketball moves, here are the projected 1st round March Madness games based on player projections at www.valueaddbasketball.com (allow edits at https://tinyurl.com/y9mr9uu4). After the list, we lay out recent moves and which colleges were the biggest winners and losers.

Rnk	Team	Value Projection	Conf	Seed	1st Round NCAA Match-ups
1	Kentucky	67.07	SEC	1	Lehigh/Texas Southern Winner
2	Villanova	57.26	BE	1	Stephen F. Austin/Howard winner
3	Kansas	56.58	B12	1	Vermont
4	Nevada	56.55	MWC	1	New Mexico St.
5	Oregon	55.99	P12	2	St. Francis PA
6	Auburn	55.56	SEC	2	Northern Kentucky
7	Duke	54.37	ACC	2	UC Davis
8	Mississippi St.	49.22	SEC	2	Rider
9	North Carolina	48.92	ACC	3	Liberty
10	UCLA	46.17	P12	3	Belmont
11	Gonzaga	45.87	WCC	3	Georgia St.
12	Syracuse	45.27	ACC	3	Marshall
13	Tennessee	45.05	SEC	4	Lipscomb
14	Maryland	44.78	B10	4	UNC Greensboro
15	LSU	44.15	SEC	4	Harvard
16	Virginia	44.12	ACC	4	Buffalo
17	Virginia Tech	41.66	ACC	5	Loyola Chicago
18	Ohio St.	41.55	B10	5	Houston
19	North Carolina St.	41.5	ACC	5	Davidson
20	Marquette	41.45	BE	5	BYU/Michigan winner
21	Michigan St.	41.44	B10	6	Washington/San Diego St. winner
22	South Dakota St.	40.36	Sum	6	Indiana
23	USC	39.83	P12	6	Alabama
24	Florida	39.7	SEC	6	Notre Dame
25	Texas	39.33	B12	7	Boston College
26	Montana	39.18	BSky	7	Iowa St.
27	Miami FL	38.22	ACC	7	Creighton
28	Arizona St.	38.02	P12	7	Wisconsin
29	Northeastern	37.88	CAA	8	Northwestern
30	Florida St.	37.62	ACC	8	TCU
31	Kansas St.	37.5	B12	8	Providence
32	Iowa	36.88	B10	8	Texas Tech

And here are teh biggest winners and losers in recent updates at https://tinyurl.com/y9mr9uu4.

Rnk	Recent Change	Biggest Recent Winners	Loser	Value
75	Omer Yurtseven	Georgetown in 2020	NC State	7.04
78	Ashton Hagans	Kentucky	his highschool	7.00
174	Blake Francis	Richmond in 2020	Wagner	5.88
212	DeSean Murray	Not yet known	Auburn	5.45
297	MaCio Teague	Available in 2020	UNC Asheville	4.89
326	Ryan Welage	Xavier in 2020	San Jose State	4.66
328	Brandon Williams	Oregon/Crystal Ball	None	4.65
382	Austin Reaves	Not yet known	Wichita St.	4.32
442	Zach Johnson	Miami FL	Florida Gulf Coast	4.10
440	Ronnie Harrell	Denver	Creighton	4.10
444	Courtney Ramey	Louisville/Crystal Ball	None	4.09
469	Carlton Bragg 15	New Mexico in 2020	Arizona State	3.98
502	Kassoum Yakwe	Connecticut	St. John's	3.85
505	Marcus Burk	Available in 2020	Campbell	3.84
598	Justin Gorham	Available in 2020	Towson	3.57
656	Juwan Gray	Available in 2020	San Diego	3.35
669	David Caraher	St. John's in 2020	Houston Baptist	3.32
783	Nick Norton	Drake	UAB	2.97
830	Austin Nehls	Ball St.	Central Connecticut State	2.78
846	Joseph Chartouny	Marquette	Fordham	2.75
880	Eric Lockett	Not yet known	Florida International	2.66
897	Jacob Young	Rutgers	Texas	2.63
908	Antwann Jones	Memphis/Crystal Ball	None	2.60
930	James Akinjo	Georgetown/Crystal Ball	None	2.56
957	Matthew Moyer	Vanderbilt in 2020	Syracuse	2.50
974	Jordan Jones	Available in 2020	Charleston Southern	2.46
1060	Jordan Nobles	Oakland	Eastern Michigan	2.23
1090	Izaiah Brockington	Unknown	St. Bonaventure	2.20
1114	CJ Jones	Not yet known	Arkansas	2.19
1134	Mason Faulkner	Available in 2020	Northern Kentucky	2.14
1149	Josh McFolley	Available in 2020	Detroit	2.11
1162	Bobby Planutis	Not yet known	Mount St. Mary's	2.07
1172	Tyler Harris	Memphis/Crystal Ball	None	2.06
1242	Jy'lan Washington	Tennessee State	Louisiana Tech	1.90
1260	Justin Thomas	Available in 2020	Northern Illinois	1.88
1290	Nedeljko Prijovic	Maine in 2020	Texas State	1.82
1301	Tarin Smith	Connecticut	Duquesne	1.81
1310	Aaron Calixte	Oklahoma	Maine	1.78
1343	Blake Hinson	Mississippi/Crystal Ball	None	1.70
1382	Andy Van Vliet	William & Mary in 2020	Wisconsin	1.63
1432	Caleb McConnell	Rutgers/Crystal Ball	None	1.50
1519	Lukas Kisunas	Arizona/Crystal Ball	None	1.35
1800	Payton Willis	Minnesota	Vanderbilt	1.06

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