New York, N.Y. – The Skyline Conference released its annual Preseason Coaches' Poll Monday afternoon with the Mount Saint Mary College Men's Basketball team ranking ninth overall and fourth in the six-team North Division.
 
Farmingdale State headlines the preseason rankings, racking up 120 points overall and 10 of the possible 12 first place votes. Two North Division teams follow the Rams, with the United States Merchant Marine Academy picking up 99 points and Manhattanville securing 94. Both the Mariners and Valiants collected one first place nod from the league's head coaches.
 
Yeshiva, who claimed the league championship a season ago, sits in fourth place overall with 88 points followed by St. Joseph's-L.I. with 82 points and the College of Mount Saint Vincent with 72 points to round out the top-half of the 12-team league.
 
Old Westbury ranks seventh according to the coaches with Sarah Lawrence (54), the Mount (43), Purchase (38), Maritime (27) and St. Joseph's-Brooklyn (15) finishing off the overall poll.
 
In the North Division rankings, USMMA and Manhattanville lead the way with Sarah Lawrence, Mount Saint Mary, Purchase and Maritime following in the six-team division.
 
In the South, Farmingdale State sits atop the division poll with Yeshiva, St. Joseph's-L.I., Mount Saint Vincent, Old Westbury and St. Joseph's-Brooklyn following.
 
Mount Saint Mary begins the 2022-23 season with an exhibition at Division I St. Francis Brooklyn Monday night before officially starting the campaign on Wednesday at home against Misericrodia.