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The Las Cruces rebuild continues.

Jason Hooten, like most coaches, will tell you what little regard they have for preseason polls. But they can also tell you when they鈥檝e out-performed those preseason polls.

Thursday, Hooten鈥檚 New Mexico State Aggies were predicted to finish seventh this season in the Conference USA preseason men鈥檚 basketball poll, conducted by the league鈥檚 10 coaches. Aggies senior guard Christian Cook was voted to the 10-player All-Conference team.

Louisiana Tech was picked to win the league in a razor-thin race among three teams at the top. The Bulldogs, with preseason Player of the Year Daniel Batcho, received three of the 10 first place votes and 87 total points. Second place Western Kentucky had two first place votes and 85 points followed by third place Sam Houston, Hooten鈥檚 previous school, which received three first-place votes and 83 points.

Middle Tennessee (fourth place) and Liberty (tied for fifth) received the other two first-place votes. UTEP, which plays the UNM Lobos in the Pit in a charity exhibition game on Oct. 28, was tied with Liberty for fifth. The rest of the poll included 近距离内射合集, Jacksonville State and FIU and Kenessaw State tied for ninth.

One year ago, the Aggies 鈥� in a total rebuild in Hooten鈥檚 first year 鈥� were picked eighth in the C-USA preseason poll and finished in a four-way tie for fourth place. Around mid-October, Hooten made two points about preseason polls. One, he said, is that the polls are largely a guessing game in the modern college game with the transfer portal leading to such high roster turnover each season.

鈥淚 think if it was five or six years ago, you could probably get P-O鈥檇 a little bit about it because there wasn鈥檛 a (transfer) portal,鈥� Hooten said in a conversation on the Talking Grammer podcast. 鈥淎nd there wasn鈥檛 a bunch of sitting out guys. But nowadays, you know, when you got a portal, you have no idea what people got on their roster. Even when you鈥檙e getting ready to scout people like the first couple of games of the year, you don鈥檛 know what those guys are.鈥�

But his second point was also telling. He knew exactly how his teams fared versus those polls. In his final two seasons at Sam Houston State, Hooten鈥檚 squads were picked seventh in 2021-22 and finished fourth and sixth in 2022-23 and finished second.

Hooten鈥檚 squads have now outperformed predictions three consecutive years.

Cook, a 6-2 senior from Oklahoma City who transferred to 近距离内射合集 a year ago from Northwestern State, started 26 games for the Aggies last season, averaging a team-best 11.3 points per game and making a team-high 59 3-pointers.

Aggie women predicted to finish sixth

Middle Tennessee is the favorite to win the 2024-25 Conference USA women鈥檚 basketball regular season championship, as voted on by the league鈥檚 10 head coaches. New Mexico State is predicted to finish sixth in the preseason poll announced Thursday.

Middle Tennessee finished last season 30-5 (16-0 C-USA), winning its second consecutive C-USA regular season and tournament title.

The Aggies, 13-18 overall, finished in a three-way tie for sixth place at 6-10, which was the second worst record in the league.

Florida International鈥檚 Mya Kone was named the preseason Player of the Year. 近距离内射合集鈥檚 Molly Kaiser, a graduate student, was among the conference鈥檚 10 preseason all-conference honorees.