URI Basketball Picked 1st in A-10 Preseason Poll
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
The University of Rhode Island (URI) men’s basketball team was a near-unanimous pick to finish first in the Atlantic 10 in the 2017-18 A-10 preseason poll released Tuesday during the conference's media day in Washington D.C.
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The Rams received all but one of the 28 first-place votes in the poll, finishing with 390 points overall, putting them ahead of St. Bonaventure, who received one first-place vote and was second in the poll with 345 points.
Saint Joseph's, VCU and Dayton round out the top five.
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Matthews and Terrell Earn Preseason Honors
Guards E.C. Matthews and Jared Terrell were named to the first and second preseason All-Atlantic 10 team respectively.
Matthews was named Most Outstanding Player of the 2017 Atlantic 10 Championship after averaging 19.3 points and 5.7 rebounds per game during Rhode Island's run to the title.
Terrell has played 100 games over the last three seasons, making 99 starts.
In his career, Terrell has scored 1,182 points, averaging 11.8 points per game. He has also recorded 120 career steals.
This is the second consecutive season Rhode Island has had two players on the A-10's preseason all-conference teams.
2017-18 URI Basketball
Rhode Island enters the season following a 2016-17 campaign in which they won the A-10 Tournament Championship and made a run to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, losing to Oregon.
The Rams return seniors Matthews, Terrell, Jarvis Garrett and Stanford Robinson while sophomore Jeff Dowtin looks to follow up a freshman season in which he started 19 of 32 games.
URI opens their season on Friday, November 10 when they host UNC Asheville as part of the NIT Season Tip-off Tournament.
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