(STATS) - Nicholls coach Tim Rebowe said he hopes all of his Southland Conference counterparts get the ending they want this season.

The Southland's preseason poll, released Thursday at media day, suggests Rebowe will be the happiest. His Colonels squad was installed as a decisive favorite to repeat as the conference champion with Central Arkansas picked second; Incarnate Word, which earned a share of the title, third; and Sam Houston State fourth among the 11 teams.

As coaches often do, though, Rebowe took the proverbial guarded position heading into the season. He pointed out that his team can't flip to the final chapter of its 2019 book or fast-forward to the end of the movie.