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FRISCO, Texas – After having his senior season in 2017-18 cut short due to injury just nine games in, Josh Ibarra is back for a redshirt senior year and has been selected to the Preseason All-Southland Conference second team by the league's head coaches for the 2018-19 season.
 
This marks the second-consecutive season Ibarra has been named to the preseason second team after earning second team All-SLC honors for the 2016-17 season, his junior year. Ibarra was on a tear last season, averaging 17.8 points and 11.3 rebounds per game with a 31-point performance and a pair of 17-rebound games before suffering a season-ending injury a minute into the Huskies' game at UTSA.
 
In nine games last year, the senior averaged a double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds per game while shooting 55.2 percent from the floor. He also averaged more than 2.5 assists per game and recorded 15 blocked shots.
 
Ibarra was the top vote-getter in balloting of the SLC's head coaches with the five first team selections all automatically earning their spots by virtue of being named all-conference at the end of last season.
 
The Huskies will open the 2018-19 season on Wednesday, Nov. 7, when they visit Arizona in Tucson, Ariz. with an 8:00 p.m. tip-off on the Pac-12 Network.