2009–10 Conference USA men's basketball season

The 2009–10 Conference USA men's basketball season marked the 15th season of Conference USA basketball.

2009–10 Conference USA men's basketball season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Duration	January 7, 2010 through March 7, 2010
Number of teams	12
TV partner(s)	CBS College Sports Network
Regular Season
2010 C-USA Champions	UTEP
Season MVP	Randy Culpepper
Tournament
Champions	Houston
Runners-up	UTEP
Finals MVP	Kelvin Lewis, Houston

2009–10 Conference USA men's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
UTEP	15	–	1		.938			26	–	7		.788
Memphis	13	–	3		.813			24	–	10		.706
UAB	11	–	5		.688			25	–	9		.735
Marshall	11	–	5		.688			24	–	10		.706
Tulsa	10	–	6		.625			23	–	12		.657
Southern Miss	8	–	8		.500			20	–	13		.606
Houston†	7	–	9		.438			19	–	16		.543
SMU	7	–	9		.438			14	–	17		.452
East Carolina	4	–	12		.250			10	–	21		.323
Tulane	3	–	13		.188			8	–	22		.267
Rice	1	–	15		.063			8	–	23		.258
UCF*	0	–	10		.000			0	–	17		.000
† 2010 CUSA Tournament winner As of March 20, 2010 Rankings from AP Poll *UCF vacated its wins from the 2010–11 season after it was discovered that there was an ineligible player on the team.

Preseason

In a vote of league coaches, Tulsa center Jerome Jordan headed up the preseason All-CUSA team and was named preseason conference player of the year.^[1] On October 29, Jordan was named to the Naismith Award watch list.^[2] Jordan's teammate Ben Uzoh was named to the 30-man preseason candidate list for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award.^[3]

Preseason All-CUSA Team

• Aubrey Coleman, Houston
• Jerome Jordan, Tulsa
• Kelvin Lewis, Houston
• Arnett Moultrie, UTEP
• Ben Uzoh, Tulsa

Preseason Player of the Year

• Jerome Jordan, Tulsa

Regular season

Postseason

Conference USA tournament

Main article: 2010 Conference USA men's basketball tournament

This season, the Conference USA men's basketball tournament started on March 10, 2010 and ended on March 13, 2010. The games were played in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the BOK Center, where 7th seeded Houston upset number 1 seeded UTEP in the championship game.

Conference awards & honors

Weekly awards

Conference USA Players of the week
Throughout the conference season, the Conference USA offices name a player and rookie of the week.

Week	Player of the week	Rookie of the week
November 16[4]	Isaac Sosa, UCF	Elijah Millsap, UAB
November 23	Aubrey Coleman, HOU	Elliot Williams, MEM
November 30	Aubrey Coleman, HOU	Hassan Whiteside, MAR
December 7[5]	Justin Hurtt, TLSA	Elliot Williams, MEM
December 14[6]	Elliot Williams, MEM	Hassan Whiteside, MAR
December 21[7]	Elijah Millsap, UAB	Marcus Jordan, UCF
		Jeremy Williams, UTEP
December 28[8]	Aubrey Coleman, HOU	Jamarr Sanders, UAB
January 4[9]	Elijah Millsap, UAB	Derrick Caracter, UTEP
January 11[10]	Ben Uzoh, TLSA	Elijah Millsap, UAB
		Elliot Williams, MEM
January 18	Aubrey Coleman, HOU	Hassan Whiteside, MAR
January 25	Randy Culpepper, UTEP	Hassan Whiteside, MAR
February 1	Derrick Caracter, UTEP	Arsalan Kazemi, RICE
February 8	Wesley Witherspoon, MEM	Derrick Caracter, UTEP
February 15	Randy Culpepper, UTEP	Elliot Williams, MEM
February 22	Randy Culpepper, UTEP	Hassan Whiteside, MAR
March 1	Aubrey Coleman, HOU	Hassan Whiteside, MAR
March 8[11]	Tyler Wilkerson, MAR	Jordan Callahan, TULN

All-Conference Awards

^[12]

• Player of the Year: Randy Culpepper, UTEP
• Freshman of the Year: Hassan Whiteside, Marshall
• Defensive Player of the Year: Hassan Whiteside, Marshall
• Sixth Man of the Year: Dago Pena, Marshall and Steven Idlet, Tulsa
• Newcomer of the Year: Elliot Williams, Memphis
• Coach of the Year: Tony Barbee, UTEP

Conference USA Men's Basketball All-Conference Teams

First Team

• Aubrey Coleman, Houston
• Randy Culpepper, UTEP
• Elijah Millsap, UAB
• Ben Uzoh, Tulsa
• Elliot Williams, Memphis

Second Team

• Derrick Caracter, UTEP
• Gary Flowers, Southern Miss
• Jerome Jordan, Tulsa
• Hassan Whiteside, Marshall
• Tyler Wilkerson, Marshall

Third Team

• Papa Dia, SMU
• Aaron Johnson, UAB
• Derek Williams, SMU
• Wesley Witherspoon, Memphis
• Brock Young, East Carolina

Freshman Team

• Keith Clanton, UCF
• Marcus Jordan, UCF
• Arsalan Kazemi, Rice
• Kendall Timmons, Tulane
• Hassan Whiteside, Marshall

Defensive Team

• Aaron Johnson, UAB
• Jerome Jordan, Tulsa
• Julyan Stone, UTEP
• Sai'Quon Stone, Southern Miss
• Hassan Whiteside, Marshall

Academic Team

• Connor Frizzelle, Rice
• Lucas Kuipers, Rice
• George Drake, UAB
• Isaac Sosa, UCF
• Isaac Gordon, UTEP

National awards & honors

National awards

NABC

District 11 Coach of the Year: Tony Barbee

USBWA

On March 9, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association released its 2009–10 Men's All-District Teams, based on voting from its national membership. There were nine regions from coast to coast and a player and coach of the year were selected in each. The following enumerates all the Conference USA representatives selected within their respective regions.^[13]

District IV (KY, TN MS, AL, GA, FL) All-District Team Elliot Williams, Memphis

District VI (IA, MO, KS, OK, NE, ND, SD) All-District Team None Selected

District VII (TX, AR, LA) All-District Team Randy Culpepper, UTEP

References

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