SI projections put Gonzaga's Kyle Wiltjer as the top scorer in the country, with Ole Miss's Stefan Moody, Oklahoma's Buddy Hield and Rhode Island's E.C. Mathews also appearing in the top 10.

Over the coming weeks, SI will reveal its player projections, conference forecasts and national rankings for the 2015-16 season. These are derived from our statistical projection system, a collaboration between economist DanHannerand SI's Luke Winn and Chris Johnson that's now in its second year.

We used the projection model to generate individual stats for every player in the top 11 conferences (AAC, ACC, Atlantic 10, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC and West Coast). The individual projections are based on many factors, including players' past advanced-statistical performance in the context of more than a decade of D-I player data; the predictive power of recruiting ratings, both on immediate freshman performance and longer-term development; coaches' abilities to develop and maximize talent, as well as their playing-time distribution tendencies; teams' estimated pace of play; andintelfrom teams on how their rotations will be structured, which helps us better forecast how many minutes and shots will be available to each player.

The second reveal of SI's projection-system output isour top 100 scorers, by raw points per game:

On Wednesday, SI named Gonzaga's Kyle Wiltjer (No. 1) a frontrunner for national player of the year, so he needs no additional hype. Evansville's D.J. Balentine (No. 2) on the other hand, might be the best scoring guard you've yet to see on TV: He averaged 27.2 points in Evansville's five CIT games last postseason and has averaged 20-plus points for the past two seasons. Our projections view him as Wiltjer's primary challenger for the national scoring title. Balentine has an outside shot at making his first NCAA tournament appearance this season, too; we project the Aces as the best Missouri Valley Conference team not named Wichita State.

After transferring to BYU from Wake Forest, Chase Fischer (No. 14) spent 2014-15 as an auxiliary option to volume scorer Tyler Haws. SI's projections expect Fischer to emerge as one of the country's top scorers as a senior. He's already an accomplished three-point shooter, having ranked 10th nationally in long-range makes last season, and he'll be playing in a fast-paced offense alongside an elite distributor in Kyle Collinsworth (No. 30).

No one on SI's top 100 scorers list is projected to make a bigger leap than Duke's Grayson Allen (No. 23), who averaged 4.5 points per game as a freshman and could realistically exceed 16 as a sophomore. Meanwhile, our projections expect Illinois State's DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell (No. 25) to emerge as a mid-major scoring star and the leader of a tourney darkhorse.

Rank Name Team Projected PPG Last year’s PPG 31 Nigel Hayes Wisconsin 15.7 12.4 32 Andrew Andrews Washington 15.7 15.0 33 James Blackmon Jr. Indiana 15.7 15.7 34 Brandon Ingram Duke 15.6 35 Kellen Dunham Butler 15.6 16.5 36 Anthony Barber North Carolina St. 15.4 12.1 37 Stacy Davis Pepperdine 15.4 15.7 38 Bronson Koenig Wisconsin 15.4 8.7 39 Josh Scott Colorado 15.3 14.5 40 Louis Dabney Tulane 15.3 13.6

After two years of being led in scoring by Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker, Wisconsin is now Nigel Hayes's (No. 31) and Bronson Koenig's (No. 38) team. SI projects the Badgers' junior-co stars to each average 15-plus points per game. Hayes is already a natural, high-volume scorer, but look for Koenig to evolve from an occasional shooter into UW's primary source of backcourt offense.

Notre Dame's Demetrius Jackson (No. 41) is ready to make the transition from Jerian Grant's sidekick into one of the nation's best point guards. There are plenty of shots available after the departures of Grant and Pat Connaughton, and Jackson and Zach Auguste (No. 43) project to be an elite point guard/center scoring duo.

You may have forgotten about Boise State's Anthony Drmic (No. 54), a proven scorer who played just seven games in 2014-15 before suffering a season-ending ankle injury. The Australian import was granted a fifth year of eligibility by the NCAA as a medical hardship case and should contend for Mountain West player of the year honors.

SI projects two members of Mississippi State's backcourt to crack the top 100: senior Craig Sword (No. 51) and freshman Malik Newman (no. 61). There may not be enough talent around them for the Bulldogs to reach the NCAA tournament in coach Ben Howland's first season—our projections view them as an NIT team—but regardless, the Sword-Newman duo will be fun to watch.

Getting Caris LeVert (No. 73) back for his senior season—after a foot fracture cut his junior campaign to just 17 games—is a boon for Michigan. SI's projections have the versatile guard putting up 14.1 points per game, but that could be conservative if wing Zak Irvin is slow to recover from a back injury that's sidelined him in the preseason.

Kentucky, just as it did last season, projects to have a ultra-balanced scoring attack. SI expects freshmen Skal Labissiere (No. 85) and Jamal Murray (No. 57) to be the co-leaders in what will likely be their only season in Lexington. Both are projected Lottery Picks in the 2016 NBA Draft.

The prize of Marquette's 2015 recruiting class, stretch-four Henry Ellenson (No. 94), projects to be the highest-scoring freshman in the Big East. He and sophomore guard Duane Wilson (No. 72) will lead a Golden Eagles team that we expect to get back to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2013.