Mashburn Named Preseason First Team All-Conference

IRVING, Texas - Jamal Mashburn Jr was named a First Team Preseason All-AAC pick as announced by the conference on Friday afternoon. As a team, Temple was picked sixth in the American Athletic Conference preseason poll. The poll and preseason teams are voted on by the 13 head coaches in the league.

Mashburn comes to the Owls as a three-year All-Mountain West performer and helped lead New Mexico to the NCAA Tournament last season with 21 points in the MW championship game against San Diego State. He enters this season with 1,866 career points.

Temple garnered the sixth spot with 86 points. UAB was selected atop the poll with Memphis in second. South Florida, Wichita State and Florida Atlantic round out the top five.

The full poll and preseason All-Conference teams is below.

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Rank	Team	Points
1.	UAB (9)	141
2.	Memphis (4)	136
3.	South Florida	108
4.	Wichita State	102
5.	Florida Atlantic	97
6.	Temple	86
7.	North Texas	83
8.	Charlotte	65
9.	East Carolina	63
10.	Tulsa	44
11.	UTSA	35
	Tulane	35
13.	Rice	18

First place votes in parenthesis

Preseason Player of the Year
Yaxel Lendeborg, Sr., F, UAB

Preseason Freshman of the Year
Jared Harris, G, Memphis

Preseason All-Conference First Team
Yaxel Lendeborg, Sr., F, UAB*
RJ Felton, Sr., G, East Carolina
PJ Haggerty, R-So., G, Memphis
Tyrese Hunter, Sr., G, Memphis
Jamal Mashburn Jr., Gr., G, Temple

Preseason All-Conference Second Team
Efrem 'Butta' Johnson, Jr., G, UAB
Alejandro Vasquez, Sr., G, UAB
KyKy Tandy, Gr., G, Florida Atlantic
Colby Rogers, R-Sr., G, Memphis
Jayden Reid, So., G, South Florida

* denotes unanimous selection

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