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Love Named First Team All-Big 12 By Conference Coaches

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Big 12 Conference announced its preseason awards on Thursday and Arizona senior guard Caleb Love was named to the First Team. As a team, Arizona was picked to finish fifth in the conference with one first place vote.  
 
Love was a Second Team All-American and Pac-12 Player of the Year in his first season in Tucson last year. He was one of five finalists for the Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award and was named to the Wooden Award All-American team after averaging 18.0 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists. He shot a career-best 41% from the floor and had the best assist-to-turnover ratio (1.6) of his career while averaging the most points per game of his career. 
 
To speak to the depth of the Big 12 Conference this season, in the most recent release of ESPN's Preseason Rankings on Oct. 7, Arizona checked in at No. 9 in the country and four other Big 12 teams ahead of them.  
 
Arizona will play two exhibition games at home on Oct. 21 and Oct. 28 before opening the season Nov. 4 at home against Canisius. Season tickets are on sale now and single-game tickets and mini-plans go on sale Saturday, Oct. 12 at 10:00 a.m. MST on ArizonaWildcats.com. 
 
Preseason Big 12 Poll 
  1. Kansas (9) – 215 
  1. Houston (5) - 211 
  1. Iowa State (1) - 194 
  1. Baylor - 185 
  1. Arizona (1) - 179 
  1. Cincinnati - 140 
  1. Texas Tech - 135 
  1. K-State - 133 
  1. BYU - 116 
  1. TCU - 90 
  1. UCF - 83 
  1. Arizona State - 64 
  1. West Virginia - 62 
  1. Oklahoma State - 46 
  1. Colorado - 37 
  1. Utah – 30 
 
Preseason All-Big 12 First Team 
Caleb Love, Arizona 
LJ Cryer, Houston 
J'Wan Roberts, Houston 
Tamin Lipsey, Iowa State 
Hunter Dickinson, Kansas* 
 
Preseason All-Big 12 Second Team 
Norchad Omier, Baylor 
Jeremy Roach, Baylor 
Keshon Gilbert, Iowa State 
Dajuan Harris, Kansas 
Coleman Hawkins, K-State 
 
 *- unanimous 
 
Preseason Player of the Year: Hunter Dickinson, Kansas 
Preseason Co-Newcomer of the Year: Jeremy Roach, Baylor 
Preseason Co-Newcomer of the Year: Coleman Hawkins, K-State 
Freshman of the Year: VJ Edgecombe, Baylor 
 
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