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Northwest Missouri Men’s Basketball and Central Missouri Women’s BB Top 2023 MIAA Pre-Season Coaches Poll

KRPS | By Fred Fletcher-Fierro
Published October 12, 2023 at 8:37 AM CDT
2023 MIAA Women's Basketball Coaches
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2023 MIAA Women's Basketball Coaches

Pittsburg State Men’s basketball is projected to finish in 11th place this upcoming season, while the PSU Women's BB team is forecast to finish 3rd. PSU men finished the 2022-2023 campaign in 13th place with an overall record of 8 and 20. While the Lady Gorillas wrapped up last year's campaign in 4th place with an overall record of 23 and 8.

Pittsburg State men’s and women’s basketball tips off of their 2023-2024 seasons next month.

The MIAA held their media day Tuesday in Kansas City to highlight the start of the upcoming season.

KRPS’s Fred Fletcher-Fierro has more.

Coaches and media polls were also released Tuesday and Northwest Missouri were selected to take home the MIAA regular season title for the tenth consecutive season.

The Bearcats captured the 2022-23 regular season title with an impressive 20-2 league record.

While the Pittsburg State men’s team was selected to finish in 11th place in both the media and coaches polls. The Gorillas finished in 13th place in the MIAA last season.

In the women’s MIAA preseason polls, the Central Missouri Jennie returns as the favorites for the 2023-24 season after going 25-5 overall last season and finishing second in the league with a conference record of 19-3.

Pittsburg State women’s basketball is projected to finish third according to both coaches and media polls.

Head coach Amadna Davied speaking Tuesday says the Lady Gorillas did a lot of things right last season but there is one area they could improve on.

“I’m excited about new things we’re working on, and we’re really working on our defense. If you look we were first in the league in scoring, first in free throws, first in rebounding but we were 11th in defense and so, that can’t make you feel really great about that, so the only way to go is up.”

Pitt State men’s and women’s basketball tip off their season on Friday, November 10.

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Fred Fletcher-Fierro
Since 2017 Fred Fletcher-Fierro has driven up Highway 171 through thunderstorms, downpours, snow, and ice storms to host KRPS’s Morning Edition. He’s also a daily reporter for the station, covering city government, elections, public safety, arts, entertainment, culture, sports and more. Fred has also spearheaded and overseen a sea change in programming for KRPS from a legacy classical station to one that airs a balance of classical, news, jazz, and cultural programming that better reflects the diverse audience of the Four States. For over two months in the fall of 2022 he worked remotely with NPR staff to relaunch krps.org to an NPR style news and information website.

In the fall of 2023 Fred was promoted to Interim General Manager and was appointed GM in Feburary of 2024.
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