BOWLING GREEN – The defending Mid-South Conference regular season champions will have some work to do to repeat that title, league officials announced Friday.
UPIKE was picked to finish second in the Mid-South conference by a narrow margin, just behind Georgetown. The Bears garnered 45 points and three of the eight first-place votes, while Georgetown earned 47 points and the other five first-place votes.
Pikeville finished 28-5 last year, 11-3 in MSC play, and earned a bid to the NAIA national tournament. The Bears lost the services of 2018 Mid-South Player of the Year Darrion Leslie, but still return two all-MSC players in Jayvian Delacruz and Jordan Perry.
UPIKE’s season begins next weekend with the UPIKE Tip-Off Classic. Pikeville’s first game is at 8 p.m. Friday against Central Penn and then it faces Florida National at 4 p.m. on Saturday in the East Kentucky Expo Center.
(Source: UPIKE Sports Information Office)