Your Drexel Dragons return four starters from last year’s 15-14 team that finished sixth in the Colonial Athletic Association, and at today’s CAA Media Day in Washington, D.C., the Dragons were picked to finish seventh out of 12 CAA teams by a vote of the league’s coaches, sports information directors and media.

Drexel lost leading scorer Scott Rodgers (13.6 ppg.) to graduation, but it returns CAA all-rookie team pick Samme Givens, a 6-5 sophomore who averaged 6.8 rpg., and welcomes Givens’ younger brother, Shannon, a 6-foot freshman who was a first-team All-Philadelphia Public League pick last year at Fels High. The other newcomer is a big man — Daryl McCoy of Hartford, Conn., who stands 6-9, 270, but was named Hartford Public High’s Most Improved Player as recently as 2007-08, which means he sounds pretty raw.

The CAA’s coaches and media picked Old Dominion, which returns all five starters from a team that went 25-10, to win the league. Drexel did not have anyone named to the CAA’s preseason all-league team, though former Saint Joe’s guard Jawan Carter was named honorable mention. Carter now plays at Delaware, and he was a third-team all-CAA pick a year ago after averaging 15.0 ppg. He sat out 2007-08 after transferring from Hawk Hill, where he had started 26 of 32 games as a freshman in 2006-07.

Links: Meet Daryl McCoy [Drexel University]
CAA Media Day! [Colonial Athletic Association]
Jawan Carter’s bio [University of Delaware]