Women's Basketball Picked Sixth in Big South Preseason Poll The Coastal Carolina University women’s basketball team was picked to finish sixth in the Big South Conference annual preseason poll, announced at the League’s annual Basketball Tip-Off Luncheon in Charlotte, N.C. Senior
Kim Turner (West Memphis, Ark./Hiwassee C.C.) also was selected to the League’s Preseason All-Conference Team. Coastal, led by ninth-year head coach
Alan LeForce, earned 72 points, including one first-place vote, to earn the sixth spot. Liberty was picked to win its ninth straight regular-season title, earning 189 points and 14 first-place votes. High Point was not far behind with 181 points and nine first-place votes. UNC Asheville was picked third with 163 votes and two first-place votes. Radford was picked fourth with 112 points, followed by Birmingham-Southern (95 points), Coastal, Charleston Southern (69 points) and Winthrop (55 points). Coastal returns four starters and eight letterwinners from a team that finished 9-18 overall and 4-10 in the Big South in 2004-05. Turner, a 6-0 forward, averaged 13.1 points and 6.0 rebounds in 26 games last season. She was a Second Team All-Big South selection in 2004-05 and was fourth in the conference in scoring and sixth in the League in rebounding. Turner had three double-double, including a 22-point, 15-rebound performance against Birmingham-Southern March 2. The forward also led the team with 32 blocked shots and had 55 steals, which was second on the team. Turner was joined on the All-Big South Preseason Team by Preseason Player of the Year Katie O’Dell of High Point, Kristal Hood of UNC Asheville, Stacey Anthony of Birmingham-Southern, Allyson Fasnacht of Liberty and Corrie Fertitta of Radford. Both the Coastal men’s and women’s basketball teams will host Midnight Mania Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 9 p.m., immediately following the CCU volleyball match with the College of Charleston. The Lady Chanticleers then open the 2005-06 schedule Tuesday, Nov. 22 at Campbell. Game time is at 7 p.m.
