LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - In exclusive balloting by SCAC men's head basketball coaches, defending league champion Trinity University was tabbed as the preseason favorites to capture the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference title in 2012-13.
Trinity headlined the annual poll of head
coaches and is favored to win the SCAC title. Head coach Pat
Cunningham and his Tigers earned five of six first place (coaches
could not vote for their own team) votes to go along with 25 points
to take the top spot.
2012 SCAC tournament host Austin College (19
points, 1 first place vote) and Colorado College
(19 points) look to give Trinity its toughest competition in the
conference. Rounding out the poll was Centenary
College (12 points), University of Dallas
(eight points) and Southwestern University (seven
points).
Trinity looks for its second straight SCAC championship and the program's seventh title in the SCAC era (since 1991-92). The Tigers won three straight titles from 2002-03 through 2004-05. They also won titles in 1997-98 and 1999-00 and 2011-12.
| 2012-13 SCAC Men's Basketball Preseason Poll | |||
| |
No. of Votes | 2011-12 SCAC | 2011-12 Overall |
| 1. Trinity University |
25 (5) | 12-4 | 21-9 |
| T-2. Austin College |
19 (1) |
11-5 |
15-11 |
| T-2. Colorado College |
19 |
8-8 |
12-13 |
| 4. Centenary College* |
12 |
N/A | 11-11 |
| 5. University of Dallas |
8 | 5-11 | 7-19 |
| 6. Southwestern University |
7 | 4-12 |
4-21 |
Note: First-place votes (in parentheses) are worth
five points, second place worth four points, on down to 5th-place
votes being worth one point. Coaches voted for order of finish 1-5,
but did not rank their own team.
*Centenary competed in the American Southwest Conference last
season
