NEW ORLEANS, La. – Georgia Southern women's basketball student-athletes Angel McGowan and Patrice Butler have earned Preseason All-Sun Belt Conference honors as voted on by the league's coaches. The Sun Belt released the three preseason all-conference teams as well as the 2016-17 Sun Belt Conference Women's Basketball Coaches' Preseason Poll Tuesday morning.
McGowan, a senior guard from Greenville, S.C., earned first team honors and Butler, a senior forward/center from Norcross, Ga., was named to the third team.
A 2015-16 Sun Belt All-Conference Second-Team honoree, McGowan started 26 of the 28 games she appeared in last season – including all 20 of the Eagles' Sun Belt Conference games –while averaging 31.