The American Athletic Conference announced its preseason awards for men’s basketball on Wednesday morning, and there were a lot of positive predictions for Houston.
The Cougars were named the preseason favorite to win the conference in the AAC Coaches’ Preseason Poll, which is the second year in a row where they are predicted to be at the top after they were co-favorites with Memphis a season ago.
UH received nine first-place votes from the AAC’s head coaches for a total of 99 points. Second place Memphis finished with 90 points.
Other AAC schools received the following votes: SMU (80), Cincinnati (77), USF (61), Tulsa (50), Wichita State (44), UCF (37), ECU (34), Temple (18) and Tulane (15).