With the 2019-2020 season drawing near for the Louisiana Ragin Cajuns women’s basketball team, the preseason poll has dropped for the Sun Belt Conference and they were picked to finish eighth in the conference.
The Cajuns will open up the season on November 7th when they take on Loyola New Orleans at the Cajundome with tipoff set for 6 pm.
Below is the Sun Belt Conference Preseason Poll along with the preseason All-Sun Belt teams.
2019-20 Conference Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Preseason Poll
first-place votes in parentheses
- Little Rock (6) – 127 pts
- Troy (4) – 123 pts
- UTA (1) – 120 pts
- South Alabama (1) – 119 pts
- Appalachian State – 100 pts
- Georgia State – 73 pts
- Coastal Carolina – 66 pts
- Louisiana – 64 pts
- Texas State – 59 pts
- Arkansas State – 44 pts
- Georgia Southern – 26 pts
- ULM – 15 pts
Preseason All-Sun Belt First Team
DJ Williams, Coastal Carolina (Senior, Guard, Moreno Valley, Calif.)
Jada Lewis, Georgia State (RS-Junior, Guard, Power Springs, Ga.)
Kyra Collier, Little Rock (Senior, Guard, N. Little Rock, Ark.)
Savannah Jones, South Alabama (RS-Junior, Guard, Ocean Springs, Miss.)
Antoinette Lewis, South Alabama (Junior, Forward, Memphis, Tenn.)
Preseason All-Sun Belt Second Team
Bayley Plummer, Appalachian State (Senior, Center, Thomasville, N.C.)
Alexis Brown, Georgia Southern (Senior, Guard, Madison, Ga.)
Tori Lasker, Little Rock (Junior, Guard, Mayflower, Ark.)
Claire Chastain, UTA (Sophomore, Guard, Shawnee, Okla.)
Amber Rivers, Troy (Senior, Forward, Birmingham, Ala.)
Preseason All-Sun Belt Third Team
Pre Stanley, Appalachian State (Junior, Guard, Rockledge, Fla.)
Peyton Martin, Arkansas State (Junior, Forward, Pine Bluff, Ark.)
Shaforia Kines, South Alabama (Senior, Guard, Birmingham, Ala.)
Katie Ferrell, UTA (Sophomore, Forward, Plano, Texas)
Japonica James, Troy (Senior, Forward, Mobile, Ala.)
Preseason Sun Belt Player of the Year
Antoinette Lewis, South Alabama (Junior, Forward, Memphis, Tenn.)