[Cracked Sidewalks] Howard and Hauser Project as MU's 1st Top 100 Players in 5 Years

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Howard and Hauser Project as MU's 1st Top 100 Players in 5 Years

Based on the average improvement between freshmen and sophomore seasons, Sam Hauser and Markus Howard project to be among the top 100 players in the country next year, which would make them the first to break the top 100 since Devante Gardner finished 55th in 2013.

Marquette's Team Value Add was 30.83 in 2017, the 35th best total in the season, but they lost more than a third of that total with the departures of Luke Fischer, JaJuan Johnson, Katin Reinhardt and Duane Wilson (see 2017 values below).

Project Improvement of Returning Players Outweighs Losses

Andrew Rowsey ranked as the 300th best player in the country with a value of an additional 4.80 points per game, according to www.valueaddbasketball.com. He projects to improve to 5.25 for his senior campaign. However, most of a players improvement typically occurs between a player's freshman and sophomore season, and an average jump for Hauser and Howard would place them in the top 100 players, part of 31.60 of projected Team Value Add for Marquette that makes the team already one point better than last year, which would make MU the 32nd best team in the country even if they failed to fill the final roster spots.

2017 Rnk	Player	Ht	2017 Team	2017 Actual	2018 Projected
347	Sam Hauser #10	6'6"	Marquette	4.43	6.77
358	Markus Howard #0	5'11"	Marquette	4.36	6.25
300	Andrew Rowsey #30	5'10"	Marquette	4.80	5.25
962	Haanif Cheatham #25	6'5"	Marquette	2.32	3.51
NR	Harry Froling	6'11"	SMU if all season	1.09	2.59
NR	Jamal Cain	6'7"	High School	0	1.92
1467	Matt Heldt #12	6'10"	Marquette	1.30	1.90
NR	Greg Elliott	6'3"	High School	0	1.62
NR	Theo John	6'8"	High School	0	1.27
NR	Ikechukwu Eke	6'9"	High School	0	0.52
NR	Sacar Anim	6'5"	Marquette 2016	0.00	0.00
202	Luke Fischer #40	6'11"	Marquette	5.50	0.00
413	JaJuan Johnson #23	6'5"	Marquette	4.10	0.00
867	Katin Reinhardt #22	6'6"	Marquette	2.55	0.00
1557	Duane Wilson #1	6'2"	Marquette	1.16	0.00
2427	Traci Carter #21	6'0	Marquette	0.31	0.00
35	Team Total (35th to 32nd)		Marquette	30.83	31.60

During the first decade of Value Add Historic Rankings MU had 18 top 100 players in just 10 seasons.

Year	Season Rank	Player
2003	3	Wade, Dwyane
2003	39	Diener, Travis
2004	7	Diener, Travis
2005	11	Diener, Travis
2006	17	Novak, Steve
2006	76	James, Dominic
2008	90	McNeal, Jerel
2008	96	James, Dominic
2009	50	Matthews, Wesley
2009	80	McNeal, Jerel
2009	89	Hayward, Lazar
2010	5	Butler, Jimmy
2010	34	Hayward, Lazar
2011	48	Butler, Jimmy
2011	69	Crowder, Jae
2012	2	Crowder, Jae
2012	91	Johnson-Odom, Darius
2013	55	Gardner, Davante

Source: Howard and Hauser Project as MU's 1st Top 100 Players in 5 Years

[Mr. Sand-Knit]

Interesting the top three seasons from this listed all started n played against each other tonite in the playoffs

[auburnmarquette]

Good point! I really don't have NBA allegiance, just root for any team with an my grad. If Wade wasn't back I was going to root for Crowder over Jimmy F Butler, but I need to root for a team with 2 MU players on the court vs 1, so I was with our Chicago alumni association tonight!

[muwarrior69]

Why is Sacar projected to be 0 while all the incoming freshman are projected at greater than 0?

[brewcity77]

Why is Sacar projected to be 0 while all the incoming freshman are projected at greater than 0?

It uses past performance as the base, I believe, and Sacar doesn't really have anything to go on in that regard.

[NCMUFan]

Again, good things to look forward to.

[muwarrior69]

It uses past performance as the base, I believe, and Sacar doesn't really have anything to go on in that regard.

Not even his high school performance, not to mention the few games he did play in his frosh season? That should be considered as it was for the incoming frosh. At the very least it should be above zero.