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

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Preseason

In a vote of league coaches,

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center

Jerome Jordan Jerome Adolphus Jordan (born September 29, 1986) is a Jamaican professional basketball player who last played for RANS Simba Bogor of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL). He played college basketball for the University of Tulsa and represent ...

headed up the preseason All-CUSA team and was named preseason conference player of the year. On October 29, Jordan was named to the

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watch list. Jordan's teammate

Ben Uzoh Benjamin Chukwukelo Uzoh (born March 18, 1988) is a Nigerian-American former basketball player. He played in international competitions for . Standing at and playing at the point guard, Uzoh played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) f ...

was named to the 30-man preseason candidate list for the

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Preseason All-CUSA Team

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, Houston *Jerome Jordan, Tulsa * Kelvin Lewis, Houston *

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, UTEP *Ben Uzoh, Tulsa Preseason Player of the Year *Jerome Jordan, Tulsa

Regular season

Postseason

Conference USA tournament

This season, the

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started on March 10, 2010 and ended on March 13, 2010. The games were played in

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at the

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, 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.

All-Conference Awards

*Player of the Year:

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, UTEP *Freshman of the Year:

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, 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 Elliot Jerell Williams (born June 20, 1989) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Duke and Memphis. He was selected with the 22nd overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers ...

, Memphis *Coach of the Year:

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, UTEP

Conference USA Men's Basketball All-Conference Teams

First Team *Aubrey Coleman, Houston *Randy Culpepper, UTEP *

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, 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 *

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, 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

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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. 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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