Top 100 College Hoops Players

The votes are in from Rob Dauster (NBC Sports), Ken Pomeroy, Eamonn Brennan (ESPN), CJ Moore (Bleacher Report), Daniel Dickey (The Sporting News), Tim Letcher (Rant Sports), the Wooden Selection Committee, the NBA Draft Projectors, and me (Value Add Basketball)—and here are the top 100 players in the country.

OK, we didn’t all get together and hash this out—but all have ranked players recently. We took each ranking (which can be found by clicking on the link above), and gave 50 points for a first place vote, 49 for second place, etc. We had to use a little improvising as Value Add is the only system that actually ranks all the players in order—so I will explain the specifics below, but first here are the top 100 player in college basketball this year based on this consensus of basketball experts.

Con	Player	Team	Tot	NBC	Pom	ESPN	BR	TSN	Rant	NBA	ValA
1	Kaminsky, Frank 44	Wisconsin	384	49	50	49	49	50	50	41	46
2	Wright, Delon 55	Utah	373	46	49	48	48	49	50	33	50
3	Okafor, Jahlil 15	Duke	371	50	48	50	50	48	50	50	25
4	Cauley-Stein, Willie 15	Kentucky	347	41	35	40	44	42	50	46	49
5	Anderson, Justin 1	Virginia	314	45	28	47	45	41	50	29	29
6	Russell, D’Angelo 0	Ohio St.	304	47	42		35	37	50	48	45
7	Wiltjer, Kyle 33	Gonzaga	286	46	43	46	46	33	50		22
8	Johnson, Stanley 5	Arizona	266	44	47	40	38		50	47
9	Towns, Karl-Anthony 12	Kentucky	248		46	40	20	45		49	48
10	Grant, Jerian 22	Notre Dame	231	48		40	47	28		28	40
11	Hield, Buddy 24	Oklahoma	226	30	41		41	31	50		33
12	Baker, Ron 31	Wichita St.	220	30	31	40	40		50	11	18
13	Portis, Bobby 10	Arkansas	206	30	6	40	31		50	35	14
14	Rozier, Terry 0	Louisville	192		8		33	38	50	21	42
15	Boatright, Ryan 11	Connecticut	178	30	38	40			50		20
16	Trimble, Melo 2	Maryland	174	42		40	42		50
17	Tuttle, Seth 10	Northern Iowa	169		45		43	47			34
18	Harrell, Montrezl 24	Louisville	159			40	32		50	36	1
19	Pangos, Kevin 4	Gonzaga	153	30			20		50	12	41
20	Niang, Georges 31	Iowa St.	153	43		40	20		50
21	White, Aaron 30	Iowa	127		7		29	34		20	37
22	Christmas, Rakeem 25	Syracuse	127	30			20	30	24		23
23	Gill, Anthony 13	Virginia	126		44	40		39			3
24	Waldow, Brad 0	St. Mary’s	123	30	34		37	22
25	Staten, Juwan 3	West Virginia	120	30		40			50
26	Nance, Larry 22	Wyoming	104	30		40	34
27	Jones, Tyus 5	Duke	102						50	31	21
28	Booker, Devin 1	Kentucky	94					25		45	24
29	Harrison, D’Angelo 11	St. John’s	90			40			50
30	Dunn, Kris 3	Providence	88		36			44			8
31	VanVleet, Fred 23	Wichita St.	88		21			29			38
32	Johnson, Dakari 44	Kentucky	85		26			36		23
33	Payton, Gary 1	Oregon St.	85					21		17	47
34	Harrison, Aaron 2	Kentucky	80		16				21		43
35	Mickey, Jordan 25	Louisiana St.	80	30					50
36	Caffey, Michael 5	Long Beach St.	79					40			39
37	Graham, Treveon 21	VCU	75		39		36
38	Turner, Myles 52	Texas	65					23		42
39	Lee, Damion 14	Drexel	63					32			31
40	Marks, Derrick 2	Boise St.	62					43			19
41	Hollis-Jefferson, Rondae 23	Arizona	57		25					32
42	Payne, Cameron 1	Murray St.	54					26		15	13
43	Dekker, Sam 15	Wisconsin	54		17					37
44	Meeks, Kennedy 3	North Carolina	53					35		18
45	Layman, Jake 10	Maryland	52				28			24
46	Henton, LaDontae 23	Providence	52	30					22
47	Harrison, Shaquille 3	Tulsa	52		32			20
48	Yogi Ferrell, Kevin 11	Indiana	50						50
49	Hunter, R.J. 22	Georgia St.	49						23	26
50	Walden, Corey 2	Eastern Kentucky	44								44
51	Looney, Kevon 5	UCLA	44							44
52	Winslow, Justise 12	Duke	43							43
53	Gathers, Rico 2	Baylor	42		30						12
54	Oubre, Kelly 12	Kansas	40							40
55	Upshaw, Robert 24	Washington	39							39
56	Randle, Chasson 5	Stanford	39				39
57	Lyles, Trey 41	Kentucky	38							38
58	Hewitt, Jelani 5	Georgia Southern	36								36
59	Forte, Phil 13	Oklahoma St.	35								35
60	Poeltl, Jakob 42	Utah	35		5					30
61	Mason, Frank 0	Kansas	34				27				7
62	Alexander, Cliff 2	Kansas	34							34
63	Pierre, Dyshawn 21	Dayton	33		33
64	Pointer, Sir’Dominic 15	St. John’s	32								32
65	Collinsworth, Kyle 5	Brigham Young	30	30
66	Martin, Jarell 1	Temple	30	30
67	Young, Joseph 3	Oregon	30	30
68	Holmes, Jonathan 10	Texas	30	30
69	Tarpey, Terry 25	William & Mary	30								30
70	Haws, Tyler 3	Brigham Young	30				30
71	Smith-Rivera, D’Vauntes 4	Georgetown	28								28
72	LeVert, Caris 23	Michigan	27							27
73	Hawkins, Corey 3	UC Davis	27								27
74	Randolph, Levi 20	Alabama	26								26
75	Wood, Christian 5	UNLV	25							25
76	Paige, Marcus 5	North Carolina	25						25
77	Brogdon, Malcolm 15	Virginia	24		18						6
78	Brimah, Amida 35	Connecticut	22							22
79	Ellis, Perry 34	Kansas	20		20
80	Vaughn, Rashad 1	UNLV	19							19
81	Pinkston, JayVaughn 22	Villanova	19		19
82	McConnell, T.J. 4	Arizona	17		15						2
83	Sabonis, Domantas 11	Gonzaga	17		14					3
84	Ulis, Tyler 3	Kentucky	17							13	4
85	Spangler, Ryan 0	Oklahoma	17								17
86	Frazier, J.J. 30	Georgia	16								16
87	Jones, Damian 30	Vanderbilt	16							16
88	Dee, Johnny 1	San Diego	15								15
89	Wallace, Tyrone 3	California	14							14
90	Kalinoski, Tyler 4	Davidson	13		13
91	Moore, Nic 11	SMU	12		12
92	Taylor, Brandon 11	Utah	11								11
93	Prince, Taurean 21	Baylor	10		10
94	Gibbs, Sterling 4	Seton Hall	10								10
95	Brown, Anthony 21	Stanford	10							10
96	Johnson, Brice 11	North Carolina	9							9
97	McKinney, Mikh 10	Sacramento St.	9								9
98	Blackmon, James 1	Indiana	8							8
99	Jackson, Justin 44	North Carolina	7							7
100	McCullough, Chris 5	Syracuse	6							6

As for the specifics of each voter:

Rob Dauster (NBC Sports)—NBC Sports rates the top 10—scored 50 to 41—and then he lists others in consideration. So. we gave them all 30 points (1st place Jahlil Okafor).

Ken Pomeroy—the only purely statistical rating except for Value Add. www.kenpom.com actually just lists the top 10 in the country, so we estimated his top 50 by taking his top player in his top conference as the next best player, then top player in his second best conference, etc. (1st place Frank Kaminsky).

Eamonn Brennan (ESPN)—ESPN listed a top 5, scored 50 to 46, and then listed others who we gave 40 points each. (1st place, Okafor)

CJ Moore (Bleacher Report)—Bleacher Report counted through the top 25 (scored 50 to 26) and then listed five honorable mentions, so we gave them all 20 points (1st place, Okafor).

Daniel Dickey (The Sporting News)—TSN counted through the top 25 (scored 50 to 26) and then listed a few who had dropped out, and where they rated, so we scored them 24, 23, etc. though we were missing some numbers above those who had dropped out (1st place, Frank Kaminsky).

Tim Letcher (Rant Sports)—The easiest place to give the actual Wooden Selection Committee picks was in combination with Rant Sports, which listed the top five snubs. In this column, we gave all 25 of the mid-season Wooden watch lists 50 points each, and then scored Rant’s five snubs 25 to 21 (all 25 Wooden Selections listed as tied for 1st place).

The NBA Draft Projectors—We monitor draft news and projections for a likely draft order, and gave the projected No. 1 pick 50 points, etc. (1st place as likely 1st draft pick in Okafor).

My Value Add Basketball rankings of all 4000+ players were updated Tuesday, and I updated the top 50 in this story. The 50 listed in that story and at www.valueaddbasketball.com were scored 50-49, etc. (1st place is Delon Wright).

Value Add still shows Wright in 1st place. Okafor is ranked 1st by four of the seven, but Kaminsky grabs the other two first place votes and is first overall.