NEW ORLEANS - Junior Makeba Ponder of the Georgia State women’s basketball team was named to the 2016-17 Preseason All-Sun Belt team the conference announced on Tuesday. The Panthers were picked to finish ninth in the preseason coaches poll.
Ponder earned a spot on the second team after scoring 594 points in her first two season at GSU. She enters her junior year averaging 11.6 points per game. Ponder has led the team in scoring in each of first two seasons and has led the Sun Belt Conference in most 3-point baskets made per game over the same span (2.