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College of Charleston guard Andrew Goudelock is the Southern Conference coaches' preseason pick for the league's player of the year.

The coaches also selected Goudelock's Cougars and Western Carolina as favorites to win the Southern Conference's two divisions. The league announced the selections Thursday.

Western Carolina (North Division) earned 10 first-place votes and finished the balloting with 64 points. Behind eight first-place votes, College of Charleston was picked to win the South Division.

Appalachian State earned the remaining two first-place votes in the North Division and finished with 55 points. Elon and UNCG tied for fifth place with 22 points apiece.

Wofford picked up three first-place votes and finished second in the preseason balloting with 54 points. Davidson, which has won the South Division each of the past three years, earned the final first-place vote in the South Division and came in third with 48 points.

Goudelock was fourth in Southern Conference scoring last winter at 16.7 points a game. The junior also headed up the 10-player all-conference team.

SoCon men's basketball predicted order of finish
First-place votes are in parentheses

North Division
1. Western Carolina (10) — 64
2. Appalachian State (2) — 55
3. Samford — 44
4. Chattanooga — 39
5. (tie) Elon, UNCG — 22

South Division
1. College of Charleston (8) — 63
2. Wofford (3) — 54
3. Davidson (1) — 48
4. The Citadel — 36
5. Furman — 24
6. Georgia Southern — 21

2009-10 preseason all-conference team
Will Archambault, Davidson
Kellen Brand, Appalachian State (Andrews HS)
Noah Dahlman, Wofford
Brandon Giles, Western Carolina
Andrew Goudelock, College of Charleston (player of the year)
Harouna Mutombo, Western Carolina
Willie Powers, Georgia Southern
Junior Salters, Wofford
Cameron Wells, The Citadel
Tony White Jr., College of Charleston

CLEMSON: Clemson has its third basketball sellout — and the season doesn't even start for another week. The school announced that its game against Boston College on Jan. 9 at Littlejohn Coliseum is sold out.

The Tigers previously announced that ACC contests at Littlejohn with North Carolina (Jan. 13) and Duke (Jan. 23) were sellouts already.

Clemson had five sellouts at 10,000-seat Littlejohn Coliseum last season. The 24th-ranked Tigers open the season against Presbyterian on Nov. 13.

MIAMI: The challenge for the Miami Hurricanes basketball team will be to fill the void created by the departure of leading scorer Jack McClinton.

Four freshmen and a transfer will try, and coach Frank Haith believes they're enough.

Collectively, Haith expects them to compensate for the loss McClinton, the leading 3-point shooter in ACC history. Haith says this will be his best defensive team, and it will be more balanced on offense.

Miami went 19-13 overall and 7-9 in the ACC a year ago with McClinton, who averaged 19.3 points per game. Three overtimes defeats in the league kept the Hurricanes out of the NCAA tournament, and the goal this season is to make the field for only the second time under Haith.