Coppola picks up preseason honor

MONROE, La. – College Sports Madness announced its Men’s Basketball All-Sun Belt Conference Preseason team on Monday and ULM senior Nick Coppola was named to the Second-Team. Coppola, from Richmond Va., has started every game in his career and averaged a personal best 36.8 mins per game last season which was tops in the Sun Belt.

He also broke the ULM career assists mark during last season with 409 for his career. Coppola finished third in the SBC in both assists (5.3 apg) and assist to turnover ratio (2.5) last season. He averaged 10.9 points per game and notched 19 double-figure scoring games in 2015-16.

ULM begins the year with an exhibition game at home on Monday, Nov. 7 at 7:00 p.m. against Louisiana College before the Warhawks open the regular season on Friday, Nov. 11 at 1:00 p.m. when they host Centenary.

CSM All-SBC First-Team

Tookie Brown, Georgia Southern

Erick Neal, UT-Arlington

Devin Carter, Arkansas State

Kevin Hervey, UT-Arlington

Jeremy Hollowell, Georgia State

CSM All-SBC Second-Team

Marcus Johnson, Arkansas-Little Rock

Wesley Person, Troy

Nick Coppola, ULM

Mike Hughes, Georgia Southern

Jordan Varnado, Troy

CSM All-SBC Third-Team

Elijah Wilson, Coastal Carolina

Donte Thomas, Arkansas State

Ken Williams, South Alabama

Jay Wright, UL-Lafayette

Georgia Boyanov, South Alabama

CSM All-SBC Fourth-Team

Johnathan Stove, UL-Lafayette

Jaylen Shaw, Coastal Carolina

Rashad Shabazz, Appalachian State

Jalen Jones, UT-Arlington

Kevin Gilder-Tilbury, Texas State