CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The 2018-19 Big South Conference Preseason Polls and All-Conference teams were announced on Tuesday at Media Day and the men’s basketball team was selected third in the poll and junior Jermaine Marrow was selected to the first team.
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Defending champion Radford earned 28 of the 33 first-place votes to lead the preseason poll with 357 points. Winthrop had two first-place votes and picked second with 280 points while Hampton was third with 253 points and two first-place votes.
Hampton finished 19-16 last season, losing to North Carolina Central in the MEAC Tournament title game.
Marrow earned Preseason All-Conference honors along with Chris Clemons (Campbell), Ed Polite (Radford), Christian Keeling (Charleston Southern) and David Efianayi (Gardner-Webb). Clemons was selected as the Preseason Player of the Year.
After a season where he averaged 19.1 points, 5.4 assists and 5.0 rebounds, Marrow nearly recorded a triple-double against Bethune-Cookman with 35 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists. He had a career-high 11 assists against Mid-Atlantic Christian.
HU will also bring back contributors such as Akeem Mitchell, Kaylin Fisher and Lysander Bracey in addition to Marrow. It’s a solid core that should cause some noise in the Big South as it was starting to in the MEAC.
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