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USA Today Releases Preseason Top 25 Coaches’ Poll

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The first preseason poll of the 2015-16 season has been released. USA Today put out their first installment of their in-season weekly Top 25 poll voted on by college basketball coaches. The full list of voters this year can be found at the bottom of this post. Providence makes an appearance in the “Others Receiving Votes” section while Villanova and Butler are in the Top 25. The Friars finished the 2014-15 season in that same “Others Receiving Votes” with 3 votes. They received 5 votes in the preseason poll — and a good bet is that one of the voters that chose them was Creighton’s Greg McDermott.

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Breaking Down the 2015-16 Preseason Big East Awards and Coaches’ Poll

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The 2015-16 version of Big East Media Day is in the books and the preseason awards and polls are out. I already gave you my picks for Preseason Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year, First Team All-Big East and my Preseason Poll. Now it’s time to break down the choices made by the league’s coaches.

First let’s tackle the individual player awards and All-Big East Teams before finishing with the Coaches’ Poll.

Big East Preseason Player of the Year

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2015-16 Preseason Big East Awards, Rankings and All-Conference Teams Announced at League’s Media Day

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Big East Media Day is being held Wednesday at Madison Square Garden. The Friars sent Ed Cooley, Kris Dunn, Junior Lomomba, Ben Bentil and Jalen Lindsey down to NYC for day’s festivities which include opening remarks from league commissioner Val Ackerman among other speakers. The event kicks off at 9:30am. You can follow all the action on Twitter by using the hashtag #BEmediaday and watch a live stream on the Fox Sports GO app.

Here are the coaches’ picks for preseason awards and team rankings.

Big East Preseason Player of the Year

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pcbb1917.com’s Preseason Big East Awards, Rankings and All-Conference Teams

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Big East Media Day is upon us and the Providence season begins exactly one month from today against Harvard. The league’s media day is being held at Madison Square Garden today with opening remarks from Commissioner Val Ackerman scheduled for 9:30am. The Friars are sending Ed Cooley, Kris Dunn, Junior Lomomba, Ben Bentil and Jalen Lindsey down to NYC for the event. Follow all the action on Twitter by using the hashtag #BEmediaday

I want to put a disclaimer here and say that these are not my predictions. I’m giving you my honest opinion on what I believe SHOULD be the case. Let’s dive right in with Preseason Player of the Year.

Big East Preseason Player of the Year

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Kris Dunn Named to 2016 Bob Cousy Award Watch List

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The preseason honors and attention hasn’t slowed down for Providence’s Kris Dunn. After being named the #1 player in college basketball in 2015-16 by CBS Sports on Monday, Dunn was named to the preseason watch list for the 2016 Bob Cousy Award — given to top point guard in college basketball each season. Dunn joins 19 other players on the preseason watch list. He was also on the in-season watch list last season announced on February 20th, along with 16 other players. Utah’s Delon Wright won the award in 2015. No Providence player has ever won the award that was established in 2003 with Jameer Nelson of St. Joseph’s winning the inaugural award.

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