All Valley Predictions

[Capitol Shock II]

At Center - Stutz
At Power Forward - Stutz
Small Forward - Stutz
Shooting Guard - Stutz
Point Guard - toss up between Stutz and Stutz

but seriously:

Center - Stutz
PF - Baby Sasquatch
Small Forward - Toure
SG - Colt 45 Ryan
Point Guard - nobody jumping out at me.

[SPEShockAlum]

Point guard probably goes to Antoine Young. Not sure why, but I just have a hunch.

[BOBB]

I'm not sure it works this way. Isn't it just the best five players and not by position? In any event if Weems and Toure are both classified SF then Weems gets the nod.

[SubGod22]

Stutz
McD
Weems
Murry
Young

A case could be made for Rags but I don't think we'll get 3.

[insaneykaney]

C- Stutz
PF- Daddy's Boy
SF- Toure
SG- Colt
PG- Odum

[Dan]

The award will go the 5 highest vote getters. Probably as follows:

1. McDermott
2. Colt Ryan
3. Kyle the baby Weems
4. Stutz
5. tossup: Rayvonte Rice, Toure Murry, Echenique

[moshock]

Caleb Patterson is actually more highly thought of at SWOMO than Weems is this year. Having said that:

McDoug
Colt
Weems
Stutz
Murray

[Good News]

Interesting. There's currently a big man in the league that nobody's mentioned on their ballot, with the following profile:

Scoring - 13.4 (8th in the Valley)
Rebounding - 8.6 (1st)
Field Goal % - .547 (6th)
Blocks - 1.2 (3rd)
Team - tied for 3rd
Team preseason prediction - 8th

Not sure I can remember somebody with those specs not getting first team, although some old(er) timers might.


Right or wrong, Ryan is probably a lock, assuming he doesn't fall out of the top 10 nationwide in scoring. My 5, voting with my head instead of my heart:

McDermott
Weems
Ryan
Mystery Man from above
Murry

[SubGod22]

With the way Stutz has played in conference he'd have to fall apart not to be on the first team. Either that, or the voters are on crack. I believe he's nearly averaging a double/double and is the focal point of every teams defense. He gets in above Carmichael. I love what Jackie does, but he'll have to wait until next year.

[The Mad Hatter]

Here is my evaluation of potential All Valley players by team. Those with an * before their name I consider border line (at best) and this isn't really considering all-defense, all-bench, all-newcomer, etc. All statistic ranks are in the following format (all games rank)/(conference games only rank)

Bradley
Taylor Brown (Sr.) - 4th/3rd in scoring, 8th/7th in rebounding, 5th/6th in ft percentage, -/7th in steals. -/6th in 3-point percentage

Creighton
Doug McDermott (So.) - 1st/2nd in scoring, 2nd/3rd in rebounding, 2nd/6th in fg percentage, 8th/- in ft percentage, 2nd/- in 3-point percentage

Antoine Young (Sr.) - -/11th in scoring, 4th/t3rd in assists, 4th/5th in assist/turnover ratio

*Gregory Echenique (Jr.) - 7th/5th in rebounding, 4th/- in fg percentage, 2nd/1st in blocks

*Grant Gibbs (Jr.) - 2nd/2nd in assists, 3rd/8th in assist/turnover ratio

*Jahenns Manigat (So.) - 1st/1st in 3-point percentage, 5th/9th in 3-pointers made

Drake
Rayvonte Rice (So.) - 3rd/5th in scoring, 12th/11th in rebounding, 1st/1st in steals

*Ben Simons (Jr.) - 6th/6th in scoring, -/10th in fg percentage, 2nd/5th in ft percentage, 9th/- in 3-point percentage, 1st/2nd in 3-pointers made

Evansville
Colt Ryan (Jr.) - 2nd/1st in scoring, 4th/4th in ft percentage, 4th/5th in steals, 6th/5th in 3-point percentage, 2nd/1st in 3-pointers made

*Denver Holmes (Sr.) - 6th/t9th in assists, 1st/1st in ft percentage, 8th/7th in assist/turnover ratio

Illinois State
Jackie Carmichael (Jr.) - 8th/9th in scoring, 1st/2nd in rebounding, 6th/7th in fg percentage, 3rd/4th in blocks

*Tyler Brown (Jr.) - 12th/13th in scoring, 5th/- in 3-point percentage, 3rd/7th in 3-pointers made

Indiana State
Jake Odum (So.) - 14th/13th in rebounding, 3rd/t3rd in assists, 2nd/t3rd in steals, 10th/- in assist/turnover ratio

*Dwayne Lathan (Sr.) - 15th/10th in scoring, 10th/- in fg percentage

Missouri State
Kyle Weems (Sr.) - 5th/4th in scoring, 5th/6th in rebounding, -/8th in ft percentage, -/3rd in 3-point percentage, t9th/t7th in 3-pointers made, 10th/- in blocks

*Michael Bizoukas (Sr.) - 1st/1st in assists, 1st/2nd in assist/turnover ratio

Northern Iowa
Anthony James (Jr.)- 7th/8th in scoring

*Marc Sonnen (Jr.) - 3rd/2nd in 3-point percentage, t9th/t3rd in 3-pointers made

Southern Illinois
Mamadou Seck (Sr.) - 9th/12th in scoring, 3rd/4th in rebounding, 9th/- if fg percentage, -/7th in assists. -/10th in assist to turnover ratio

Wichita State
Garrett Stutz (Sr.) - 10th/7th in scoring, 4th/1st in rebounding, 5th/4th in fg percentage, 9th/7th in ft percentage, 9th/t6th in blocks

Toure' Murry (Sr.) - 13th/15th in scoring, -/9th in ft percentage, -/6th in steals

Joe Ragland (Sr.) - 14th/- in scoring, 7th/- in fg percentage, 7th/- in assists, 7th/- in 3-point percentage, 6th/- in assist/turnover ratio

*Carl Hall (Jr.) - 11th/12th in rebounding, 3rd/3rd in fg percentage

Obviously, preference generally goes to upperclassmen and players in winning teams. Plus there are a number of these players with intangibles that increase their stock over the raw statistics.

[Good News]

With the way Stutz has played in conference he'd have to fall apart not to be on the first team. Either that, or the voters are on crack. I believe he's nearly averaging a double/double and is the focal point of every teams defense. He gets in above Carmichael. I love what Jackie does, but he'll have to wait until next year.

Yeah, I probably would put Stutz in there instead of Murry, but it was a gut feel on (1) 2 monster games against a 6'8" freshman padding his stats a little, (2) getting outplayed by Echenique in the first meeting, and (3) voters seem to love the breadth of Murry's stat lines and what he brings to the table defensively.

If he hangs a couple more monster games and at least plays Echenique to a standstill in the next meeting, I don't think there's any way to keep him off there.

My main implication on Carmichael was that the league's leading rebounder, as long he's scoring and blocking shots, usually has a lock on a spot. And I think as of last night's games, Stutz is leading the league in rebounding.

[SubGod22]

Just goes to show that the Valley has some pretty good bigs if Carmichael gets left off. He's a first team talent no doubt

[pinstripers]

McD, Stutz, Ryan, Weems..........Carmicheal or Seck.........then, the other one, plus Murry, Young, Rice, T Brown.

[wufan]

Not too long ago it was tough to figure out which combo forward was worthy of making first team with four other guards. Now we've got a lot of bigs padding the stat sheets. I think it shows a lot of growth in the Valley.

[Good News]

Yeah, I probably would put Stutz in there instead of Murry, but it was a gut feel on (1) 2 monster games against a 6'8" freshman padding his stats a little, (2) getting outplayed by Echenique in the first meeting, and (3) voters seem to love the breadth of Murry's stat lines and what he brings to the table defensively.

If he hangs a couple more monster games and at least plays Echenique to a standstill in the next meeting, I don't think there's any way to keep him off there.

My main implication on Carmichael was that the league's leading rebounder, as long he's scoring and blocking shots, usually has a lock on a spot. And I think as of last night's games, Stutz is leading the league in rebounding.

Check that - I was at the Spurs game last night and didn't watch games live. Just saw JC's monster line against MoState.

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