Men's Basketball Selected to Repeat as ECC Champions; Carberry Tabbed as Preseason Player of the Year

11/6/2012 4:56:00 PM

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (Oct. 6, 2012) - The LIU Post men's basketball team has been selected as the preseason favorite in the 2012-13 East Coast Conference Preseason Poll, as voted on by the conference's head coaches. The league's coaches also selected a Pioneer, senior guard Tobin Carberry (Hamden, Conn.), as the Preseason Player of the Year.

LIU Post, winners of the past two ECC Men's Basketball Championships, received 91 total points and seven first place votes to take home the top spot in the poll.  The Pioneers will have to make up for the loss of two-time ECC Player of the Year, Stefan Bonneau, but return three starters and two key reserves from a team that finished with a 23-6 record in 2011-12. 

Following their first season in the ECC, the University of the District of Columbia received two first-place votes while tallying 89 points to earn the No.2 spot on the poll.  The Firebirds finished the 2011-12 season with a 22-6 record and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 25 years.  Bridgeport rounds out the top three with 79 points.  Molloy earned the final first place vote to come in fourth.

Carberry, an All-Conference First Team member in the 2011-12 campaign, is LIU Post's top returning scorer. He averaged 17.9 points per game, good for fifth in the conference, and also topped the 1,000 point mark for his career a season ago. Carberry is also a solid rebounder from the guard position. He pulled down 171 rebounds and averaged 5.9 per game to rank just outside the top-ten in the ECC.

2012-13 ECC Men's Basketball Preseason Poll
Team                                                     Pts.        Last Year's Record
1. LIU Post (7)                                    91           23-6 (15-1 ECC)
2. District of Columbia (2)             89           22-6 (13-3 ECC)
3. Bridgeport                                      79           19-10 (12-4 ECC)
4. Molloy (1)                                       64           8-19 (5-11 ECC)
5. NYIT                                                  63           11-15 (8-8 ECC)
6. Dowling                                           48           13-15 (8-8 ECC)
7. St. Thomas Aquinas                    41           9-17 (5-11 ECC)
8. Queens                                           33           4-22 (3-13 ECC)
9. Roberts Wesleyan                      23           8-20 (n/a)
10. Mercy                                            19           4-22 (3-13 ECC)
( ) - first place votes
 
Preseason Player of the Year: Tobin Carberry, LIU Post (Sr., G, 6-3)