Louisiana Ragin' Cajun senior forward Shawn Long has been named to the 2015 Lou Henson Award preseason watch list.

The Lou Henson Award is given to the best mid-major college basketball player in the country at the end of the season. Long is 1 of 30 players on the list.

Last season, Long averaged a double-double of 16.4 points and 10.2 rebounds, earning Lou Henson All-American honors, first team All-Sun Belt and All-Louisiana honors.

The entire preseason watch list is listed below.

2015-16 LOU HENSON PRESEASON ALL-AMERICA TEAM
DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell – 6-5, Sr., Illinois State
Paris Bass – 6-8, So., Detroit
Craig Bradshaw – 6-3, Sr., Belmont
Martin Breunig – 6-8, Sr., Montana
John Brown – 6-8, Sr., High Point
Jared Brownridge – 6-3, Jr., Santa Clara
Stephen Croone – 6-0, Sr., Furman
Stacy Davis – 6-6, Sr., Pepperdine
Obi Emegano – 6-3, Jr., Oral Roberts
Chris Fowler – 6-1, Sr., Central Michigan
Juan'ya Green – 6-2, Sr., Hofstra
Jimmy Hall – 6-8, Jr., Kent State
Peter Hooley – 6-4, Sr., Albany
Casey Jones – 6-5, Sr., Chattanooga
Tim Kempton – 6-10, Jr., Lehigh
Raven Lee – 6-3, Jr., Eastern Michigan
Maodo Lo – 6-3, Sr., Columbia
Shawn Long – 6-11, Sr., Louisiana
Egidijus Mockevicius – 6-10, Sr., Evansville
Dallas Moore – 6-1, Jr., North Florida
Mamadou Ndiaye – 7-6, Jr., UC Irvine
Alec Peters – 6-9, Jr., Valparaiso
Justin Sears – 6-8, Sr., Yale
Jeff Short – 6-4, Sr., Norfolk State
Thomas Walkup – 6-4, Sr., Stephen. F. Austin
Jameel Warney – 6-8, Sr., Stony Brook
Jalan West – 5-11, Sr., Northwestern State
Josh Williams – 6-5, Jr., Lipscomb
Zeek Woodley – 6-2, Jr., Northwestern State
Kris Yanku – 6-4, Jr., Northern Arizona

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