Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Top 15 Men’s Basketball Players To Date

For Immediate Release

John Pudner, 404.606.3163, johnp@takebackaction.org

Metro Atlantic Athletic 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.”

“Rick Pitino’s Iona scored an early update of Alabama to boost the MAAC, and his star Nelly Junior Joseph’s double-double in that game helped him contend for Player of the Year in our first conference rankings. He is in the top 2% of all players in blocked shots and offensive rebounds. However,so far Monmouth’s George Papas ranks overall in the top 2% of players in the country and the top player in the conference, and Quinnipiac’s Matt Balanc ranks second with Joseph third.”

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.

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Rank	MAAC	Team	Value Add	Class	Ht	AdjD
1	George Papas	Monmouth	6.6	Sr	6'5"	-2.21
2	Matt Balanc	Quinnipiac	5.4	Jr	6'4"	-0.21
3	Nelly Junior Joseph	Iona	4.96	So	6'9"	-2.56
4	Jordan Cintron	Niagara	4.71	Sr	6'8"	-2.09
5	Marcus Hammond	Niagara	4.33	Sr	6'3"	-0.35
6	Dylan van Eyck	Iona	4.18	Sr	6'8"	-1.06
7	Doug Edert	Saint Peter's	3.99	Jr	6'2"	-0.04
8	Josh Roberts	Manhattan	3.86	Sr	6'9"	-0.76
9	Jao Ituka	Marist	3.6	Fr	6'1"	0.23
10	Walker Miller	Monmouth	3.56	Sr	6'11"	-1.5
11	Shavar Reynolds	Monmouth	3.49	Sr	6'2"	-0.13
12	Nick Hopkins	Siena	3.48	Sr	6'0	-0.67
13	Tyson Jolly	Iona	3.42	Sr	6'4"	-0.34
14	Walter Clayton	Iona	3.31	Fr	6'2"	-1.09
15	Greg Kuakumensah	Niagara	3.27	Sr	6'6"	-1.04
Def	KC Ndefo	Saint Peter's	1.74	Sr	6'7"	-3.07
Def	Kevin Marfo	Quinnipiac	2.99	Sr	6'9"	-2.12
Def	Berrick JeanLouis	Iona	1.69	Sr	6'4"	-1.98
Def	Nikkei Rutty	Monmouth	1.91	Sr	6'8"	-1.76
Def	Elijah Buchanan	Manhattan	0.95	Sr	6'5"	-1.71
NBA	Fousseyni Drame	Saint Peter's	1.33	Jr	6'7"	-1.09