Women's Basketball Picked Ninth In Sun Belt Conference Preseason Coaches Poll
10/20/2021 11:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Eagles receive 54 votes; highest GS has been picked since joining the league in 2014
STATESBORO - The Georgia Southern women's basketball team has been picked to finish ninth in a preseason poll of Sun Belt Conference coaches, released today by league officials.
The ninth-place prediction is the highest the Eagles have been picked in the league's preseason poll dating back to Georgia Southern joining the Sun Belt in 2014. The Eagles were picked to finish 10th a season ago and have either been picked 10th or 11th in each of the previous seven preseason polls.
Troy is picked to finish first, receiving 11 first-place votes and 142 points total in the poll. Louisiana received one first place vote and 124 points total, picked to finish second. UTA (101), Texas State (95) and Little Rock (92) round out the top five. App State (87) is picked sixth, followed by Georgia State (70), South Alabama (66) and the Eagles (54). Arkansas State (47), Coastal Carolina (39) and ULM (19) round out the poll.
Georgia Southern went 11-13 in 2020-21, improving their total wins from a season ago despite playing six fewer games due to COVID-19. The Eagles went 8-4 at Hanner Fieldhouse, the best home record for women's basketball in more than a decade, and ranked among the Top 25 in NCAA Division I in eight separate statistical categories.
The Eagles open up the 2020-21 season on Thursday, November 11, facing SEC foe Auburn at 8 p.m. in Auburn, Ala. Georgia Southern returns nine players from last season's squad, including PBC Freshman of the Year Terren Ward, and welcomes in six newcomers for 2021-22.
