SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Trinity University, the defending Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference men's basketball champions, received preseason national recognition from DIII News.
The Tigers are ranked 22nd in the DIII News preseason top-25 poll. Trinity, which went 21-9 last year en route to the school's sixth SCAC championship, was the only SCAC team featured in the poll.
Last year, the Tigers beat Centre College, 61-50, in the SCAC championship game to earn the league's automatic berth to the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship.
Trinity then upset 10th-ranked Mary Hardin-Baylor on the road, 68-66, in the NCAA tournament first round before dropping a 63-54 decision to 7th-ranked Whitworth in the second round.
DIII News Men's Preseason Top 25
1. Va. Wesleyan
2. Wis. Whitewater
3. North Central
4. Wooster
5. Cabrini
6. Franklin & Marshall
7. Hope
8. Amherst
9. William Paterson
10. Ill. Wesleyan
11. Wis. Stevens Point
12. East. Connecticut
13. Capital
14. Washington (Mo.)
15. Middlebury
16. MIT
17. St. Thomas
18. Scranton
19. Farmingdale St.
20. St. Mary’s (Md.)
21. Ohio Wesleyan
22. Trinity (Texas)
23. Hartwick
24. Messiah
25. Birmingham-Southern
Others to
watch:
R.I. College
Ithaca
Randolph-Macon
Oswego St.
Texas-Dallas
Chris. Newport
Staten Island
Wittenberg
Bethany
Transylvania
Rose-Hulman
St. Norbert
NYU
Coe
Whitworth
