With the 2020-21 college basketball season starting in a couple of weeks, the Sun Belt Conference released their preseason All-Sun Belt Conference teams on Wednesday and two Louisiana Ragin Cajuns made the preseason list.
Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns Men’s Basketball players Mylik Wilson and Cedric Russell picked up their first honors of the 2020-21 season on Wednesday as the pair were selected to the Preseason All-Sun Belt Conference team, in voting conducted by the league’s head coaches.
Wilson, the 2020 Sun Belt Freshman of the Year and Kyle Macy Freshman All-America pick, was named to the second team while Russell, the top returning scorer for the Ragin’ Cajuns, was a third-team pick.
Wilson finished his inaugural season at the collegiate level as the lone Division I freshman nationally averaging 11 points, five rebounds, two assists and two steals per game.
Russell, a preseason third-team pick in 2019-20, finished as the second-leading scorer for the Ragin’ Cajuns at 14.4 points per game while draining a team-high 74 3-pointers. The senior guard started in all 32 games played for the Ragin’ Cajuns going 159-for-388 (.410) from the floor and 74-for-129 (.338) from behind the 3-point line.
The Alexandria native finished ninth in the Sun Belt Conference in scoring, was third in the league in 3-pointers made per game (2.3) and eighth in 3-point field goal percentage (.338) while ranking 64th among Division I players in 3-point field goal attempts (219).
Louisiana is scheduled to officially open its 2020-21 season on Wednesday, Nov. 25 at the Cajundome against Xavier of New Orleans.
Below is the Preseason All-Conference teams, as voted on by the coaches
Men’s Basketball Preseason Player of the Year
Ruot Monyyong, Little Rock
(#44, Sr, F – Nashville, Tenn.)
Men’s Basketball Preseason All-Conference First Team
Ruot Monyyong, Little Rock
Markquis Nowell, Little Rock
Justin Forrest, App State
Kane Williams, Georgia State
DeVante Jones, Coastal Carolina
Men’s Basketball Preseason All-Conference Second Team
David Azore, UTA
Mylik Wilson, Louisiana
Marquis Eaton, Arkansas State
Elijah McCadden, Georgia Southern
Justin Roberts, Georgia State
Men’s Basketball Preseason All-Conference Third Team
Cedric Russell, Louisiana
Michael Flowers, South Alabama
Ben Coupet Jr, Little Rock
Zack Bryant, Georgia Southern
Caleb Fields, Arkansas State