The WKU men’s basketball team was picked to finish first in the league by a vote of the 14 Conference USA head coaches for the second consecutive year, the league office announced in its annual preseason poll on Thursday.
The Hilltoppers received 13 of the 14 first-place votes after posting an 11-7 record in C-USA play a season ago. Texas-El Paso was the only other program to receive a first-place vote.
WKU finished third in the regular season standings and advanced to the C-USA Tournament championship game in 2018-19 before falling 62-56 to Old Dominion.