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| November 27, 2007 Seasiders Move Up in Poll
Laie, HI—The Brigham Young University Hawaii men’s basketball team moved up five spots without making a single basket in the latest National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division II poll released today. The Seasiders, who have yet to play a game this year and were picked as the pre-season favorite in the Pacific West Conference coaches’ poll, received 49 points in today’s poll, an increase of 19 points over the pre-season poll. BYU–Hawaii finished with a 20-8 record last season and earned a berth
in the NCAA II National Tournament where they lost a close game in the first
round. The Seasiders return three starters from last year’s squad,
including All-PacWest First Team selection Lucas Alves and senior guards
Paul Peterson and Corey Nielson. The Seasiders open the regular season against
Western Oregon on Friday in Ellensburg, Washington as part of the Central
Washington Tournament. Western Oregon helped the Seasiders move up in the
rankings by defeating Montevallo, the number 18 team in the preseason poll
helping to drop them from the rankings. Several other ranked teams lost to
allow the Seasiders to move up but six previously unranked teams jumped ahead
of BYU–Hawaii by winning early-season games. |
