CLEVELAND, Ohio (EMUEagles.com) -- The Mid-American Conference announced its 2022-23 Men's Basketball Preseason Coaches' Poll and All-MAC Team selections today, Oct. 26, with Eastern Michigan University voted to finish seventh overall in a poll of the league coaches. Additionally, newcomer Emoni Bates (Ypsilanti, Mich.-Ypsi Prep-Memphis) was voted to the All-MAC Second Team.
Bates, who joined the program this summer following his freshman season at the University of Memphis, is the only preseason All-MAC selection that did not play in the conference last year. A 2021-22 Preseason American Athletic Conference Second Team selection with the Tigers, Bates was a consensus top five, five-star recruit that reclassified to the Class of 2021 and enrolled at Memphis, where he averaged 9.