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Texas A&M-Corpus Christi picked as favorites in 2022-23 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Preseason Poll

By Southland Conference Communications, 10/25/22, 12:30PM CDT

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Texas A&M-Corpus Christi has been voted as the favorites in the Southland Conference in 2022-23 as the conference’s men’s basketball preseason poll was announced Tuesday.
 
The Islanders claimed 11 of 20 first place votes and 149 points and return 11 players from last year’s team that went 23-12 overall. A&M-Corpus Christi is one of three teams in the nation to bring back all five starters and its top five leading scorers from the 2021-22 season. The Islanders were the 2022 Southland Tournament champions and advanced to the First Four of the NCAA Tournament.

Two-time regular season champion Nicholls is picked second in the poll with six first place votes and 137 points, only eight points behind the lead. The Colonels return two starters from last year’s squad that went 21-12 overall and 11-3 in the league with an 11-1 home record.

New Orleans is picked third in the league with 129 points and two first place votes. The Privateers went 10-4 in the Southland last year and played in The Basketball Classic. They return three starters and eight letterwinners from last season’s squad.

Southeastern is picked fourth in the conference with 105 points, returning seven players from last season’s team that tied for regular season runner-up honors with a 10-4 conference mark.

McNeese is picked fifth with 97 points and Northwestern State is picked sixth with 92 points. The Cowboys are returning two starters from a seventh place team in the conference, while the Demons have three returners and return 22 percent of their scoring.

Southland newcomers Texas A&M-Commerce are picked seventh with 56 points, Houston Christian picked up one first place vote and is eighth with 55 points. Lamar is ninth with 44 points and UIW rounds out the poll in 10th with 36 points.

The 2022-23 regular season begins on Monday, November 7, with all of the league’s 10 teams in action. Southland Conference play will consist of 18 games in a home-and-home double round robin format starting in late December.
 
The 2023 Southland Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament will be played on March 5-8 in Lake Charles, La., at McNeese State’s Legacy Center.
 

2022-23 Southland Men’s Basketball Preseason Poll

Pl

School

1st

Points

1

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

11

149

2

Nicholls

6

137

3

New Orleans

2

129

4

Southeastern

 

105

5

McNeese

 

97

6

Northwestern State

 

92

7

Texas A&M-Commerce

 

56

8

HCU

1

55

9

Lamar

 

44

10

UIW

 

36

 

2022-23 Southland Men’s Basketball Preseason All-Conference
 
PRESEASON PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Darius Lee, HCU (awarded posthumously)
 
FIRST TEAM

Name

School

Pos.

Cl.

Hometown

Latrell Jones 3

Nicholls

G

5th

New Orleans, La.

Terrion Murdix

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

G

Sr.

Springfield, Ill.

Isaac Mushila 2

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

F

Sr.

Lubumbashi, Congo

Christian Shumate 3

McNeese

F

So.

Chicago, Ill.

Trevian Tennyson 3

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

G

Sr.

Arlington, Texas

 
SECOND TEAM

Name

School

Pos.

Cl.

Hometown

Simeon Fryer

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

G

R-Sr.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Tyson Jackson

New Orleans

F

Jr.

Fairburn, Ga.

Simeon Kirkland

New Orleans

F

Sr.

Ocala, Fla.

Manny Littles

Nicholls

F

5th

Lanett, Ala.

Pierce Spencer

Nicholls

G

Jr.

Porter, Texas