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Table of JUCOs Value Add; with Jamail Jones gone there is an outside possibility of a big JUCO stepping in

Written by: noreply@blogger.com (bamamarquettefan1)

Marquette has recently lost some size with Aaron Durley going to TCU and Jamail Jones transferring out.  This might leave open an outside chance Marquette would try to go to the JUCO ranks to attempt to get someone like Jameel McKay or even Keith Coleman.    However, in general there is not a lot of value in the JUCO ranks.  Of the top 100 JUCO transfers last year, only 51 had any Value Add.  Certainly Buzz was masterful with JUCOs to quickly fill the void, but now that MU is deep there is not the need for a quick fix.  It is certainly possible that JUCO player of the year could be a top 100 player for Mississippi like the last two were, as Jae Crowder had a 5.95% Value Add his first year to be the 69th most valuable player in the country, and then last year Pierre Jackson was actually even better with a 6.06% to come in at 49th in the country.  However, only 11 incoming JUCO players were among the top 500 players last year (2.73% Value Add or higher), and only 22 were even in the top 1000 (1.31% or higher).  Based on this, we are in the process of adding the JUCO's below to www.valueaddbasketball.com. (http://www.valueaddbasketball.com/) table.tableizer-table {border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;} .tableizer-table td {padding: 4px; margin: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;} .tableizer-table th {background-color: #104E8B; color: #FFF; font-weight: bold;} JUCONew TeamHeightValue Add[/tr]

Marshall Henderson	Mississippi	6'2	6.00
Waverly Austin	South Florida	6'11	4.83
Deverell Biggs	Nebraska	6'	4.29
Orlando Sanchez	St. John's	6'8	3.50
Fabyon Harris	Texas A&M	5'10	3.35
Hunter Harris	East Tennessee State	6'6	3.24
Colin Borchert	Available	6'8	3.18
Nathan Sobey	Wyoming	6'3	3.14
Titus Rubles	Cincinnati	6'8	3.09
Geron Johnson	Memphis	6'4	2.93
Marcus Tarrance	South Carolina State	6'6	2.73
Jameel McKay	Available	6'8	2.17
Richard Carter	Drake	6'0	2.02
Christopher Jones	Prairie View A&M	5'10	1.82
Kenny Williams	Texas El Paso	6'7	1.81
Jason Carter	Mississippi	6'8	1.75
T.J. Taylor	Marquette	6'3	1.69
Antoine Allen	South Alabama	6'2	1.67
Jerrold Brooks	Available	6'	1.55
Nicholas Wiggins	Wichita State	6'6	1.50
Kelvin Daniels	Arkansas State	6'2	1.37
Lester Medford	Available	5'11	1.34
Marquel Curtis	Available	6'3	1.31
Keith Coleman	Available	6'9	1.25
Matt Korcheck	Arizona	6'9	1.21
Reggie Murphy	TCU	6'9	1.14
Michael Craig	Texas Southern	6'4	1.14
Musa Abdul-Aleem	South Florida	6'5	1.11
Fahro Alihodzic	Available	6'9	1.08
Derrick Barden, Jr.	Northern Colorado	6'5	1.02
Asauhn Dixon-Tatum	Auburn	7'0	1.00
Mike Myers	Southern Miss	6'8	1.00
Brian Freeman	Arizona State	6'8	0.99
Cleanthony Early	Wichita State	6'8	0.96
Travis Wilkins	Available	6'3	0.93
Quantel Denson	Missouri	6'8	0.93
Darren Goodson	Kent State	6'4	0.85
Xavier Munford	Available	6'2	0.79
Robert Gilchrist	Florida State	6'9	0.76
Jeremy McKay	Available	5'11	0.70
Matt Sellers	Wyoming	6'10	0.66
Richaun Holmes	Bowling Green	6'9	0.62
Trivante Bloodman	Available	6'0	0.50
Brandon Spearman	Available	6'3	0.50
Rod Rucker	Available	6'5	0.50
DJ Bennett	Available	6'8	0.50
DeSean Anderson	Available	6'8	0.50
Vincent Garrett	Rutgers	6'5	0.50
Daris Scarver	Southern Miss	6'4	0.50
Marco Bourgault	St. John's	6'6	0.50
Andrew Young	Texas A&M	6'9	0.50
Brenden Cooper	St. Bonaventure	6'7	0.40
Renan Lenz	Utah	6'9	0.40
Rafriel Guthrie	Towson	6'2	0.34
Frank Rogers	San Francisco	6'8	0.30
Derek Cooke	Wyoming	6'9	0.29
Orlando Rutledge	Tennessee-Martin	6'5	0.23
Emmanuel Andrews	Liberty	6'	0.21
John Odoh	North Texas	6'11	0.21
Brandon Morris	Houston	6'0	0.20
Kevin Harden	IPFW	6'2	0.20
Malte Kramer	Pepperdine	6'7	0.20
Gary Ricks Jr.	Drake	6'1	0.19
D'Vonne Pickett	Seattle	5'10	0.19
Tione Womack	Houston	6'1	0.14
Yanick Moreira	Available	6'11	0.11
Devon Branch	Oregon	6'5	0.10
J.T. Terrell	USC	6'3	0.02
Mark McLaughlin	Washington	6'6	0.02

However I should add it is far harder to peg how the JUCO's stack up against each other, so their 2013 projections are likely much less accurate than for incoming freshman, transfers and of course returning players.  That being said, we already have the 17th best JUCO on the board in TJ Taylor, and the only other two that seem a possibility at all are 6-foot-8 Jameel McKay and Keith Coleman, ranked 12th and 24th in projected Value Add among current JUCOs (see table above).  McKay is highly sought after but could choose to come back to Milwaukee.  Keith Coleman is pretty unlikely, but I mention him because at 6-foot-9 he was considered the top JUCO initially by some, but Nebraska released him from his commitment after he shot 32% from the line and apparently continually threw the ball away - so he would be a wild gamble even at 24th on the list.  The order is based on the recent JUCO All-American selections averaged with the impressions of www.jucorecruiting.com, www.rivals.com and www.Scout.com.

http://www.crackedsidewalks.com/2012/04/table-of-jucos-value-add-with-jamail.html

Coleman has been largely a disappointment as a JUCO.  Also I thought McKay for sure was a 2013.

I am positive he's a 2013 unless marquette knows something others don't ala DJO and can bring him in a year early which would be awesome

Yes, I also believe he is a 2013, but he is taking serious visits but apparently still keeping Marquette interest - so he wouldn't be here this coming season regardless.  Thanks both for noting.