Rattlers predicted to finish 6th in SWAC basketball preseason poll

The FAMU Men’s Basketball team entering their first season in the SWAC has been predicted to finish sixth in the conference’s preseason poll by coaches and media. Texas Southern, the defending SWAC champs, are predicted to repeat.
 
The Rattlers finished 8-12 on the season, 7-5 MEAC, during the 2020-21, their final year in the MEAC.  Coach Robert McCollum entering his fifth year as head coach, returns all his starters from the 2020 campaign, as well as a bevy of new comers.
 
The Rattlers 2021-22 season gets underway, on November 10^th when they travel to Manhattan, KS to taken on Kansas State University Wildcats.  

2021-22 SWAC Men’s Basketball Predicted Order of Finish

1. 1. Texas Southern – 237 (11)
   2. Prairie View A&M – 204 (9)
   3. Jackson State – 202
   4. Grambling State – 168
   5. Southern – 167 (1)
   6. Florida A&M – 138
   7. Alcorn State – 128
   8. Alabama State – 125
   9. Alabama A&M – 112 (1)
   10. Bethune-Cookman – 97
   11. Arkansas-Pine Bluff – 68
   12. Mississippi Valley State – 36

First-place votes listed in parenthesis