Missouri Valley Conference Top 15 Men’s Basketball Players To Date

 For Immediate Release

John Pudner, 404.606.3163, johnp@takebackaction.org

Missouri Valley 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.”

“The MVC is stacked with top tier talent this year with seven players placing in the top five percent of all players, including three from Loyola Chicago. Our analytics calculate a virtual tie for Player of the Year between defending Defensive Player of the Year Lucas Williamson of Loyola and Northern Iowa’s Nate Heise - 6.77 and 6.71 Value Add ratings respectively.”

“With Aher Uguak (4th) and Braden Norris (7th) completing a dominate trio for Loyola, it looks like Sister Jean has another chance to celebrate in March Madness. However, Garrett Sturtz (3rd) likely gives Drake the best chance to beat them.”

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	MVC	Team	Value Add	Class	Ht	AdjD
1	Lucas Williamson	Loyola Chicago	6.77	Sr	6'4"	-4
2	Nate Heise	Northern Iowa	6.71	Fr	6'4"	-2.08
3	Garrett Sturtz	Drake	6.31	Sr	6'3"	-1.98
4	Aher Uguak	Loyola Chicago	6.21	Sr	6'7"	-3
5	Gaige Prim	Missouri St.	5.94	Sr	6'9"	-2.38
6	Terry Roberts	Bradley	5.83	Jr	6'3"	-1.57
7	Braden Norris	Loyola Chicago	5.41	Jr	6'0	-0.82
8	Jawaun Newton	Evansville	4.66	Sr	6'3"	-0.7
9	Steven Verplancken	Southern Illinois	4.64	Jr	6'4"	0.02
10	Malevy Leons	Bradley	4.47	Jr	6'9"	-1.11
11	Marquise Kennedy	Loyola Chicago	4.38	Jr	6'1"	-1.75
12	Marcus Domask	Southern Illinois	4.3	Jr	6'6"	-0.85
13	Jaylen Minnett	Missouri St.	4.18	Sr	6'1"	-0.32
14	Tucker DeVries	Drake	4.17	Fr	6'7"	-1.55
15	ShanQuan Hemphill	Drake	4.11	Sr	6'6"	-2.3
Def	Lance Jones	Southern Illinois	2.24	Jr	6'1"	-1.98
Def	Rienk Mast	Bradley	1.25	So	6'9"	-1.88
Def	Thomas Kithier	Valparaiso	4.02	Sr	6'8"	-1.81
Def	Cameron Henry	Indiana St.	2.94	Jr	6'6"	-1.72
Def	Tate Hall	Loyola Chicago	2.7	Sr	6'6"	-1.7