Hattiesburg, Miss. - The Gulf Coast Athletic Conference released today the results of the 2009-2010 Men's Basketball Pre-Season Poll as selected by the league's coaches.  

This year's poll resulted in a tie for first place in point totals for Tougaloo College and LSUS.  Tougaloo was awarded the first place position based on the number of first place votes they received.  They were followed closely by Loyola University and Spring Hill College.

The results are listed below.  First place votes are shown in parenthesis.

1) Tougaloo College (4) 69 points

2) Louisiana State University - Shreveport (1) 69 points

3) Loyola University (3) 64 points

4) Spring Hill College (2) 62 points

5) William Carey University 41 points

6) Belhaven College 37 points

6) University of Mobile 37 points

8) Xavier University 36 points

9) Southern University - New Orleans 19 points

10) Dillard University 16 points