Conference Media Days starting

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This morning in Atlantic-10 Media Day...
here's the preseason poll from coaches....


1-VCU
2-George Washington
3-Dayton
4-UMass
5.-Richmond
6-Rhode Island
7-La Salle
8-St. Joe's
9-Saint Louis
10-St. Bonaventure
11-Duquesne
12-Davidson
13-George Mason
14-Fordham

6-member Preseason 1st Team All A-10
Jordan Sibert, Dayton
Patricio Garino, GWU
Kendall Anthony, Richmond
DeAndre’ Bembry, St. Joseph's
Treveon Graham, VCU
Briante Weber, VCU (has led the nation in steals the past two seasons)

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Summit League Preseaon looks like this



SUMMIT LEAGUE MEN'S BASKETBALL
2014-15 PRESEASON POLL
Place Team Points (1st)
1. Fort Wayne 450 (13)
2. Denver 437 (12)
3. Oral Roberts 400
4. South Dakota State 345 (1)
5. North Dakota State 313 (4)
6. Omaha 245
7. Western Illinois 151
8. South Dakota 148
9. IUPUI 75

Preseason Player of the Year:
Brett Olson, Denver

First Team
Name School Pos. Year
Lawrence Alexander North Dakota State G Sr.
Garret Covington Western Illinois G So.
Obi Emegano Oral Roberts G Jr.
Steve Forbes Fort Wayne F Sr.
Cody Larson South Dakota State F Sr.
Brett Olson Denver G Sr.

Second Team
Name School Pos. Year
Korey Billbury Oral Roberts G Jr.
Brandon Bos South Dakota G Sr.
Kory Brown North Dakota State G Jr.
CJ Carter Omaha G Sr.
Mo Evans Fort Wayne G So.

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Big Ten preseason poll

Place..Team..voting
1. Wisconsin 378
2. Ohio State 322
3. Michigan State 305
4. Nebraska 299
5. Michigan 286
6. Minnesota 226
7. Iowa 214
8. Illinois 196
9. Indiana 163
10. Maryland 162
11. Purdue 95
12. Penn State 84
13. Northwestern 78
14. Rutgers 27

Each school was represented in the polling by two voters - but in all, only 27 ballots were received (no explanation why one was missing)
BUT - Rutgers' 27 votes represents Rutgers getting every single one of the last place votes.
And if Northwestern is as bad as they predict - or if Nate Taphorn doesn't get much consideration for playing time, then..
I sure hope we keep one scholarship open -

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Mountain West Preseason Poll

2014-15 Mountain West Media Preseason Poll
Team (1st-Place Votes) Points
1. San Diego State (34) 383
2. Boise State (1) 275
3. New Mexico 270
4. UNLV 269
5. Colorado State 258
6. Wyoming 256
7. Fresno State 232
8. Nevada 126
9. Air Force 102
10. Utah State 98
11. San Jos?© State 41


Preseason All-Mountain West
Dwayne Polee II, Sr., F, San Diego State
Winston Shepard, Jr., F, San Diego State
Anthony Drmic, Sr., G/F, Boise State
Daniel Bejarano, Sr., G, Colorado State
Larry Nance Jr., Sr., F, Wyoming

Preseason Player of the Year
Larry Nance Jr., Sr., F, Wyoming

Preseason Newcomer of the Year
Angelo Chol, Jr., F, San Diego State

Preseason Freshman of the Year
Rashad Vaughn, Fr., G, UNLV

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Preseason All-Mountain West
Dwayne Polee II, Sr., F, San Diego State
Winston Shepard, Jr., F, San Diego State
Anthony Drmic, Sr., G/F, Boise State
Daniel Bejarano, Sr., G, Colorado State
Larry Nance Jr., Sr., F, Wyoming

Preseason Player of the Year
Larry Nance Jr., Sr., F, Wyoming

Interesting to see Larry Nance, Jr. picked as the Preseason Player of the Year for the Mountain West Conference.
Larry Nance, Jr. picked Wyoming over Bradley back on April 29, 2011-

http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=229336#post229336

He was a late spring recruit in 2011, in Geno's first month as coach at BU. Geno had recruited him at Kent State, then pursued him after getting the Bradley job. Nance was not highly recruited out of high school near Akron, Ohio, and was thought to be a "project". But he has turned into one of the best big men in the country. Too bad we missed on him.

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All Big Ten 1st Team

Yogi Ferrell, Indiana
Caris LeVert, Michigan
Terran Petteway, Nebraska
Sam Dekker, Wisconsin
Frank Kaminsky, Wisconsin

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Horizon League

Possible BU opponent Green Bay is preseason favorite...

#1 Green Bay 357 (32 of 41 1st place votes)
#2 Cleveland State (9 1st place votes)
#3 Detroit
#4 Valparaiso
#5 Wright State
#6 Milwaukee - the Horizon KLeague release completely snubbs them! - LINK)
#7 Oakland
#8 Youngstown State
#9 UIC


All Horizon 1st Team
Keifer Sykes (Green Bay) POY
Juwan Howard, Jr. (Detroit)
Corey Petros (Oakland)
Trey Lewis (Cleveland State)
Alec Peters (Valparaiso)

2nd Team
Anton Grady (Cleveland State)
Jordan Fouse (Green Bay)
Matt Tiby (UWM)
Bobby Hain (Youngstown State)
Kahlil Felder (Oakland)

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Summit League Preseason - voting is very close at the top


SUMMIT LEAGUE MEN'S BASKETBALL

2014-15 PRESEASON POLL

Place Team Points (1st)
1. Fort Wayne 450 (13)
2. Denver 437 (12)
3. Oral Roberts 400
4. South Dakota State 345 (1)
5. North Dakota State 313 (4)
6. Omaha 245
7. Western Illinois 151
8. South Dakota 148
9. IUPUI 75


Preseason Player of the Year: Brett Olson, Denver

First Team
Name School Pos. Year
Lawrence Alexander North Dakota State G Sr. (Manual HS) - (another kid who left the state and is getting national recognition as All Conference 1st Team elsewhere)
Garret Covington Western Illinois G So.
Obi Emegano Oral Roberts G Jr.
Steve Forbes Fort Wayne F Sr.
Cody Larson South Dakota State F Sr.
Brett Olson Denver G Sr.


Second Team
Name School Pos. Year
Korey Billbury Oral Roberts G Jr.
Brandon Bos South Dakota G Sr.
Kory Brown North Dakota State G Jr.
CJ Carter Omaha G Sr.
Mo Evans Fort Wayne G So.

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2014-15 Media OVC Preseason Men's Predicted Order of Finish (Media Poll) - LINK
Overall Champion: Murray State (16 first-place votes)

East Division
1. Belmont (19 first-place votes) - 127 points
2. Eastern Kentucky (1) - 104
3. Morehead State (2) - 97
4. Tennessee Tech - 62
5. Jacksonville State - 41
6. Tennessee State - 31

West Division
1. Murray State (22 first-place votes) - 132 points
2. Southeast Missouri - 109
3. Eastern Illinois - 68
4. Austin Peay - 60
5. SIUE - 57
6. UT Martin - 36

Preseason Player of the Year: Cameron Payne, Murray State

The official Coaches Poll will be out next Tuesday with the Preseason All Conference Teams

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OVC Media Day - Coaches' Poll
Murray State & Belmont are top picks
here are the preseason All OVC picks

http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/10/21/belmont-murray-state-top-preseason-ohio-valley-poll/