LIBERTY REPORT: Big South basketball media day

Welcome from Concord Room B at the Embassy Suites in Concord, N.C., home of the Big South’s basketball media days. And football media days. And baseball media days. Kidding. There are no baseball media days.

In tomorrow’s News & Advance, look for a Liberty basketball notebook and a story on the wide-open nature of the men’s race. Seven different teams picked up first-place votes in the race for preseason honors on the men’s side.

The preseason polls:
MEN
1. Winthrop (9 1st-place votes)  202
2. Radford (7)                    189
3. Gardner-Webb (3)            188
4. Liberty (2)                    148
5. High Point (1)                132
6. Charleston Southern (1)      128
7. VMI (1)                      110
8. Coastal Carolina               107
9. UNC Asheville                 83
10. Presbyterian                 33

WOMEN
1. Liberty (17)                  169
2. Winthrop (1)                  143
3. High Point                     129
4. Radford (1)                  116
5. UNC Asheville                 75
t6. Coastal Carolina             73
t6. Gardner-Webb               73
8. Charleston Southern           55
9. Presbyterian                   22

All-conference
MEN
Anthony Smith, Liberty
Chavis Holmes, VMI
Omar Carter, Charleston Southern
Grayson Flittner, Gardner-Webb
Joey Lynch-Flohr, Radford
POY—Anthony Smith

WOMEN
Megan Frazee, Liberty
Ashley Fann, Winthrop
Moriah Frazee, Liberty
Pamela Tolbert, Charleston Southern
Johnette Walker, Radford
POY—Megan Frazee

That’s all for now. Look for more in tomorrow’s N&A.