Sun Belt Preseason Poll and All-Conference

[ksdtrojan]

Sun Belt Conference Preseason Men’s Basketball Coaches Poll

East Division Points
1. Western Kentucky (10) 54
2. Florida International (1) 38
3. Middle Tennessee 36
4. Arkansas-Little Rock 23
5. Arkansas State 14

West Division Points
1. Louisiana-Lafayette (6) 58
2. Denver (5) 57
3. New Orleans 45
4. South Alabama 33
5. North Texas 27
6. Troy 11

Preseason All-Sun Belt Conference Men’s Basketball Team

First Team
Ivan Almonte (Florida International, Sr., F)
Bo McCalebb (New Orleans, Jr., G)
Dwayne Mitchell (Louisiana-Lafayette, Sr., G)
Yemi Nicholson (Denver, Sr., C)
Anthony Winchester (Western Kentucky, Sr., G)

Second Team
Chris Cameron (Louisiana-Lafayette, Sr.,F)
Isaac Hines (North Texas, Sr., G)
Mario Jointer (South Alabama, Sr., G)
Courtney Lee (Western Kentucky, So., G/F)
Zack Wright (UALR, Jr., G)

Third Team
Bobby Dixon (Troy, Sr., G)
Marcus Morrison (Middle Tennessee, Sr., G/F)
Ismael N’Diaye (Florida International, Sr., F)
Jerry Nichols (Arkansas State, Sr., G)
Antonio Porch (Denver, Jr., F)

Preseason Player of the Year: Yemi Nicholson (Denver, Sr., C)

Sun Belt Conference Preseason Women’s Basketball Coaches Poll

East Division Points
1. Western Kentucky (7) 47
2. Arkansas State (2) 38
3. Middle Tennessee (1) 33
4. Florida International 22
5. Arkansas-Little Rock 10

West Division Points
1. North Texas (7) 56
2. Louisiana-Lafayette (3) 49
3. South Alabama 41
4. Denver 28
5. Troy 22
6. New Orleans 14

Preseason All-Sun Belt Conference Women’s Basketball Team

First Team
Adrianne Davie (Arkansas State, Jr., C)
Crystal Kelly (Western Kentucky, So., F)
Jocelyn Love (UALR, Jr., G/F)
Tiffany Porter-Talbert (Western Kentucky, Sr., G)
Tia Stovall (Middle Tennessee, Sr., F)

Second Team
Erika Bobo (North Texas, Sr., G)
Ashley Blanche (Louisiana-Lafayette, Sr., G)
Chrissy Givens (Middle Tennessee, Jr., G)
Krystle Horton (Middle Tennessee, Jr., F)
Rudy Sims (Arkansas State, Jr., G)

Third Team
Amber Abraham (Arkansas State, Sr., G)
Faeza Bouderra (Florida International, Sr., G)
Le’Della English ( New Orleans, So., G)
Lasma Jekabsone (Florida International, Jr., C)
JoAnna Williams (South Alabama, Sr., G/F)

Preseason Player of the Year: Tiffany Porter-Talbert (Western Kentucky, Sr., G)

I hope we finish better than last in our division of the conference.

Congratulation to Bobby Dixon on the All-Conference Third Team.

[TrojanWar]

How about moving Troy and South Alabama to the Eastern division and moving ASU and UALR to the Western division? What Sun Belt genious came up with this? I'm guessing the same dumb@ss that setup the conference football schedules for this year. If I knew, I would send him a map and a geography book!

[CattouseFan]

We only have room to improve!

[FRED_of_TROY]

Yeah same for the guy with no geography skills.

[TrojanEmpire]

Kinda like when the Atlanta Braves were in the NL West for all those years.

[tsufl]

Kinda like when the Atlanta Braves were in the NL West for all those years.

yeah but at that time teams played a "balanced" schedule where they would play everyone the same amount of times so being in a specific division really didnt mean anything.