For Immediate Release
John Pudner, 404.606.3163, johnp@takebackaction.org
Big Ten Conference Top 15 Men’s Basketball Players To Date
“Value Add Basketball is happy to provide the early list of the conference’s top 15 men’s basketball players based on proven analytics used by NBA teams for draft prep,as well as writers at Sports Illustrated, ESPN, NBC Sports, Fox Sports,” said John Pudner, the inventor of the system.”
“Seven of 14 Big Ten teams feature a player with more than a 70 percent chance of making the NBA, and that does not even include Ohio State and the top player in the league - EJ Liddell. Liddell leads three Big Ten players in the top seven players, placing 4th, while Iowa’s Keegan Murray ranks 5th and Indiana’s Trayce Jackson-Davis ranks 7th.”
“The All-Big Ten team would be completed by Purdue’s Jaden Ivey, the top NBA prospect at 95% and 4th in the conference in Value Add (8.58) and Michigan’s Hunter Dickinson 5th. Wisconsin’s Johnny Davis ranks as the 19th most valuable player in the country, which would make him 1st team All-Conference in all 31 other conference but leaves him as the 6th best player in the loaded Big Ten.”
You can click on this google doc with information on all 4,000+ players prior to it being posted on www.valueaddbasketball.com. You can also click here for the top 100 players in the country.
Information includes each player’s chance of making the NBA, his Value Add Rating for how many points he impacts a typical game (roughly 10 points is All-American level). The key to the table is: Rank = the player's conference ranking, Value Add = how many points he improves his team over a replacement player, Class = if he is in his 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th and final year of eligibility, Ht = his height, AdjD = how many points he takes away from opponents, and NBA = his percent chance of making the NBA.
Feel free to use any information contained in these statements as wanted, and email (johnp@takebackaction.org), or text/call 404.606.3163 for any questions or additional quotes from John Pudner.
| Rank | B10 | Team | Value Add | Class | Ht | AdjD | NBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EJ Liddell | Ohio St. | 9.88 | Jr | 6'7" | -3.06 | 49% |
| 2 | Keegan Murray | Iowa | 9.61 | So | 6'8" | -2.65 | 78% |
| 3 | Trayce Jackson-Davis | Indiana | 9.39 | So | 6'9" | -3.75 | 71% |
| 4 | Jaden Ivey | Purdue | 8.58 | So | 6'4" | -2.66 | 95% |
| 5 | Hunter Dickinson | Michigan | 8.39 | So | 7'1" | -3.07 | 26% |
| 6 | Johnny Davis | Wisconsin | 8.32 | So | 6'5" | -2.59 | 86% |
| 7 | Brad Davison | Wisconsin | 7.78 | Sr | 6'4" | -1.37 | 1% |
| 8 | Payton Willis | Minnesota | 7.55 | Sr | 6'4" | -1.83 | 1% |
| 9 | Pete Nance | Northwestern | 7.31 | Sr | 6'10" | -3 | 1% |
| 10 | Hakim Hart | Maryland | 7.14 | Jr | 6'8" | -1.94 | 1% |
| 11 | Trevion Williams | Purdue | 7.09 | Sr | 6'10" | -3.55 | 26% |
| 12 | Ron Harper | Rutgers | 6.98 | Sr | 6'6" | -2.62 | 31% |
| 13 | Eli Brooks | Michigan | 6.96 | Sr | 6'1" | -1.76 | 1% |
| 14 | Jamari Wheeler | Ohio St. | 6.93 | Sr | 6'1" | -3.5 | 1% |
| 15 | Kofi Cockburn | Illinois | 6.74 | Jr | 7'0 | -2.76 | 40% |
| Def | Marcus Bingham | Michigan St. | 6.69 | Sr | 7'0 | -4.26 | 1% |
| Def | Trent Frazier | Illinois | 6.74 | Sr | 6'2" | -3.9 | 1% |
| Def | Caleb McConnell | Rutgers | 2.96 | Sr | 6'7" | -3.38 | 1% |
| Def | Race Thompson | Indiana | 6.05 | Jr | 6'8" | -3.18 | 1% |
| Def | John Harrar | Penn St. | 6.34 | Sr | 6'9" | -2.99 | 1% |
| NBA | Caleb Houstan | Michigan | 3.36 | Fr | 6'8" | -1.56 | 83% |
| NBA | Gabe Brown | Michigan St. | 6.08 | Sr | 6'8" | -1.14 | 45% |
| NBA | Malaki Branham | Ohio St. | 0.94 | Fr | 6'5" | -0.86 | 45% |
| NBA | Bryce McGowens | Nebraska | 3.32 | Fr | 6'7" | -0.79 | 91% |
| NBA | Max Christie | Michigan St. | 2.97 | Fr | 6'6" | -0.74 | 90% |
| NBA | Frankie Collins | Michigan | 0.86 | Fr | 6'1" | -0.73 | 28% |
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