​The ASUN women’s basketball coaches are calling it a dead heat between defending champion Jacksonville University and Florida Gulf Coast — at least until the first ball is tipped next week.JU and FGCU tied for first in the ASUN coaches preseason poll with 58 points. JU did get four first-place votes to Gulf Coast’s three, with the other going to Queens. Dolphins sophomore point guard Tatum Brown also scored a double-dip, voted by the coaches as the preseason Player of the Year and Preseason Defensive Player of the year.Following JU and FGCU, in order, are Lipscomb, Stetson, North Florida, Queens, West Florida and Bellarmine.Brown, from Loganville, Ga., is JU’s leading returning scorer at 10.0 points per game last season. She also averaged 5.2 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2.3 steals per game in leading JU to a 24-9 record and the ASUN Championship.Joining Brown on the preseason All-ASUN team is teammate Aniah Smith, also a sophomore guard. UNF senior guard Alonya Waldon was the only Osprey player to make the team.The remaining All-ASUN preseason players are Sinai Douglas, Eve Alexander and Denika Lighthouse of FGCU; Hope Counts and McKayla Miller of Lipscomb; Triniti Ralston of Bellarmine and Brenae Jones-Grant of Queens.JU opens the season on Nov. 3 at Florida International. UNF opens at home on Nov. 2 against Florida Tech.This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: ASUN coaches can’t pick between JU, FGCU in preseason women’s basketball