UMSL Tritons Preseason Coaches Poll Guys Selected 3rd, Women Selected Fifth
ST. LOUIS, MO. With much less than two weeks to go till the start of the school basketball regular season, the University of Missouri-St. Louis mens and womens hoops teams found out Thursday, that they had been picked to finish third and fifth in the West Division, in their respective GLVC preseason coaches polls.
Every of the leagues 16 mens and womens head basketball coaches voted in the poll, and chosen defending NCAA Division II nationwide champ Bellarmine College and defending GLVC West champ Drury College to win the mens divisions, while Wisconsin-Parkside and Drury once more, had been called the womens league favorites.
The UMSL guys obtained 84 points, and 1 1st-location vote, from the coaches to finish behind Drury, which had 113 points and fifteen first-location votes, and Quincy, which totaled 96 points.
New GLVC member William Jewell arrived in fourth with sixty two factors, while Missouri S&T (46 factors), Illinois-Springfield (42 factors), Rockhurst (39 factors), and Maryville (thirty points) came in powering the Tritons.
Head mentor Steve Tappmeyer is in his 2nd period heading the UMSL system, which went 16-eleven final season the Tritons best year since the 1990-91 campaign when the team was nonetheless called the Rivermen and went 22-six.
This period, UMSL is a really new-look group, with 10 new gamers joining the system, such as Division-I transfers Josh McCoy, Troy Lengthy, Charlie Woods, and local higher college signees Neil Branham, Janeil Hatchett, Aareon Smith, and Ben Ruether.
The UMSL guys will begin the new period in Midland, Mich., on November eleven and 12, when the Tritons will perform in the GLVC/GLIAC Problem towards Lake Superior Condition (Nov. 11) and Northwood (Nov. 12).
The Tritons 1st house game this period is slated for Saturday, November 19, when UMSL will host Lindenwood-Belleville at the Mark Twain Gym at 3 p.m.
The UMSL ladies didnt get any first-place votes in the poll, but did get sixty two complete factors, just powering Maryville, which had 64 factors.
Defending West champ Drury was named the preferred once more after receiving 12 first-place votes and 113 total factors, while 2010-eleven North Division champ Quincy was 2nd with four first-location votes and 100 complete points.
Missouri S&T came in 3rd with 86 points, followed by Maryville and UMSL, with Illinois-Springfield (45 factors), Rockhurst (23 factors), and William Jewell (22 factors) brought up the rear.
Entering her fifth year as Tritons womens mentor Lisa Curliss-Taylor delivers back a group with 8 letterwinners from a group that went ten-seventeen final 12 months.
The Tritons will get back senior point guard Kelly Carter, who missed almost the whole ten-11 season following tearing her ACL final December.
Newcomers on the Triton club include juco transfers Angela Johnson, Molly Barnes, Emily Brumitt, and Devonna Smith, along with higher school signees Kelsey Sikes, Samantha Swarts, and Alexis Lawrence.
The UMSL ladies will also open up the regular period the saturday and sunday of November 11 and 12, by playing in the St. Edwards Traditional in Austin, Tex.
To get prepared for that saturday and sunday, the Tritons will journey to Columbia, Mo., on Tuesday, November eight, to consider on Mizzou in an exhibition sport at the Mizzou Arena.
The UMSL womens first home game will be the same day as the mens, Saturday, November 19, when the Tritons will host McKendree at 1 p.m.