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Coaches pick Lady Mocs to win Southern Conference; Hollinquest named preseason player of the year |
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Posts: 20334 (11/06/09 04:09 PM) 2nd in Command! |
For the third straight year, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's basketball team has been picked to win the Southern Conference by the league's coaches, and senior post player Shanara Hollinquest was selected at the preseason player of the year. UTC received 98 points and nine first place votes in the balloting, followed by Samford with 91 points and the remaining two first place votes.
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Posts: 26806 (11/06/09 04:30 PM) Administrator
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. - For the third consecutive year, Chattanooga has been selected by the Southern Conference
women's basketball coaches to win the SoCon regular season title in 2009-10. The Lady Mocs received nine first-place votes. Chattanooga senior Shanara
Hollinquest, the conference's leading scorer and Player of the Year in 2008-09, was selected as the preseason Player of the Year.
Chattanooga received 98 points overall, seven points ahead of second-place Samford. The Lady Mocs have won at least a share of the last 10 SoCon regular season titles and return three starters from a team that went 22-10 overall and 17-3 in league play during the 2008-09 season. Receiving the other two first-place votes and 91 points overall was Samford, which was picked to finish second in the league. The Bulldogs return four starters from a team that went 22-7 overall and finished second in the conference with a 16-4 SoCon record last season, their first season in the conference. College of Charleston (84) was picked to finish third and returns three starters to a team that 14-6 overall and 23-8 in league play. The Cougars made their first trip to the conference tournament title game last season before falling to Western Carolina in triple overtime. Picked to finish fourth in the league was Davidson (64), which returns three starters. Defending tournament champion Western Carolina (58) was picked to finish fifth. The Catamounts are led by new head coach Karen Middleton and return two starters from last season. Georgia Southern (56) was picked to finish at sixth, while UNC Greensboro (54) came in at seventh. Appalachian State and Furman (31) tied for eighth, followed by Elon (26) at 10th and Wofford (12) at 11th. The coaches also selected the preseason all-conference team. Hollinquest was joined by teammate Jenaya Wade-Fray, a senior. College of Charleston, Davidson and Samford also each had two players on the team. Representing the Cougars were senior Jade Hughes and junior Tonia Gerty. Juniors Alex Thompson and Ashley Lax were tabbed from the Wildcats, while juniors Emily London and Savannah Hill were picked from the Bulldogs. Also named to the team were Furman senior Lee Stephens and Western Carolina junior Emily Clarke. The Southern Conference women's basketball season begins Friday, November 13 with 10 teams taking the court. All 11 teams will begin play during the weekend. The 2010 Southern Conference Tournament will be held March 4-8 in Charlotte, N.C.
SoCon Women's Basketball Coaches Preseason Poll
SoCon Women's Basketball Preseason All-Conference Team
SoCon Women's Basketball Preseason Player of the Year
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier --Colin Powell
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Posts: 26807 (11/06/09 04:46 PM) Administrator
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For the third consecutive year, Chattanooga has been selected by the Southern Conference women's
basketball coaches to win the SoCon regular season title in 2009-10.
So, four years ago they didn't pick the Lady Mocs? I couldn't remember the last time they didn't pick the LMs first...but I remember the last time they didn't end up first. 
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier --Colin Powell
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Posts: 20336 (11/06/09 05:11 PM) 2nd in Command! |
Chattanoogamocs wrote:I remember and I remember saying that until the Lady Mocs lose a couple regular season titles in a row, I would pick the Lady Mocs to win regardless of what you THINK Wes has coming back. |
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Posts: 26812 (11/06/09 05:20 PM) Administrator
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Maybe it was UNCG?
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Lady Mocs Picked to Retain SoCon Crown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 20344 (11/06/09 10:29 PM) 2nd in Command! |
SPARTANBURG, S.C. --- For the third consecutive year, the Chattanooga women's basketball team was picked to win the Southern Conference regular season title by the league coaches in a preseason poll released by the Southern Conference office Friday morning. The Lady Mocs, who have shared or won outright the last 10 titles in the league, received 98 overall points and nine first place votes to Samford's two.
The Bulldogs challenged Chattanooga for the title as it came down to the final game of last season to decide the winner. The Lady Mocs shut down Samford's
charge with a 72-48 effort to clinch the crown.
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