With a little more than a week remaining before the 2008-09 Division III basketball season tips off, it's time for our preseason All-America teams.

We faced a bit of a dilemma with our men's preseason All-America team: Who are the forwards? All 10 forwards from last year's All-American team were seniors, leaving us with a clean slate. In hearkening back to our deliberations last March in choosing the team, we knew there were still plenty of candidates to choose from.

As well as one who wasn't on last year's postseason radar, Brandeis' Steve DeLuca. He played in just two games last season because of injury, but in 2006-07 he averaged 15.4 points and shot 45 percent from three-point range for a 20-7 Judges team.

&&b-boxr&&He's joined on the first team by guards Sean Wallis (Wash U) and Kent Raymond (Wheaton, Ill.), forward Tyler Kathan (Keene State) and center Jeff Skemp (UW-Platteville). The full men's preseason All-America team.

The women's preseason All-America team has a few more familiar faces from last year, with LeighAnn Burke (DeSales) and Melissa Beyruti (Kean) at the guard positions, Jessica McEntee (NYU) and Trenecca Jones (La Verne) as forwards and Hillary Klimowicz (TCNJ) at center. Klimowicz leads almost an entirely new group of centers, as four of last year's five were seniors.