Preseau graduated from
Shasta High School in
Redding, California in 1954. He enrolled at
Menlo College, which at the time was still a junior college, and played basketball for them for one year. Preaseau led the team in scoring as a
freshman and guided them to a conference championship. and in the national championship game against
Iowa he scored seven points. Preaseau played two more seasons at USF before graduating in 1959. In his
junior season in 1956–57, USF surprised the college basketball world by winning a third straight conference championship and advanced to the Final Four before losing to a
Wilt Chamberlain-led
Kansas Jayhawks squad. In the Final Four match, Preaseau collected two rebounds to go along with 12 points. After graduating in 1959, Preaseau never played professionally. He went into the private contracting industry. ==References==