(Monday, October 19; Sioux Center, Iowa) The Great Plains Athletic Conference has announced the results of its Preseason Men's Basketball Coaches' Poll and the Dordt Defenders are picked third in the voting.
Dordt was 16-13 last season and 11-9 in conference play and return four players who started at least 23 games and three who started all 29 games.
Connor Millikan is the top returning scorer with an 18.2 points per game average and he totaled 6.2 rebounds with 4.1 assists for the Defenders. The three-year regular has scored over 1,000 career points as a Defender.
Judson Henkel scored 11.8 points per game in his inaugural season and converted 64 percent of his field goals and blocked over a shot per game and had 5.5 rebounds.
Jake Proctor added 11.3 points per game and
Steven Poulicek 7.7 points per outing.
Jake Hargens was averaging 17.2 points per game through six games before an injury ended his season.
Dordt will open the season on Friday, October 30 against Benedictine (Kansas) at home and will open GPAC play on November 3 against Waldorf in Forest City, Iowa.
Dordt earned two first place votes and had 84 points in the voting done by the 11 conference coaches.
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| RANK |
TEAM |
POINTS |
1st Place Votes |
| 1. |
CONCORDIA |
96 |
6 |
| 2. |
MORNINGSIDE |
91 |
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| 3. |
DORDT |
84 |
2Â |
| 4. |
DAKOTA WESLEYAN |
64 |
 |
| 5. |
MOUNT MARTY |
62 |
 |
| 6. |
NORTHWESTERN |
57 |
 |
| 7. |
BRIAR CLIFF |
52 |
 |
| 8. |
MIDLAND |
34 |
 |
| 9. |
DOANE |
33 |
 |
| 10. |
HASTINGS |
21 |
 |
| 11. |
WALDORF |
11 |
 |
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