The 2016–17 Texas State Bobcats men's basketball team represented
Texas State University in the
2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 11, 2016. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic, and ended with the Final Four in Glendale, Arizona on April 3, 2017. Practices officially began on September 30, 2 ...
. The Bobcats, led by fourth-year head coach
Danny Kaspar
Daniel Joseph Kaspar (born November 16, 1954) is an American college basketball coach. Kaspar served as men's basketball head coach at the Incarnate Word Cardinals men's basketball, University of the Incarnate Word, Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks b ...
, played their home games at
Strahan Coliseum
Strahan Arena is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena in San Marcos, Texas. It is an $8.8 million facility built in 1982 and is home to the Texas State University Bobcats men's basketball team, women's basketball team and women's volleyball team ...
in
San Marcos, Texas
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as members of the
Sun Belt Conference
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. They finished the season 22–14, 11–7 in Sun Belt play to finish in a three way tie for third place. At the
Sun Belt tournament they defeated
Louisiana–Monroe and
UT Arlington
The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) is a public research university in Arlington, Texas. The university was founded in 1895 and was in the Texas A&M University System for several decades until joining the University of Te ...
before losing in the championship game to
Troy
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. They received an invitation to the
CollegeInsider.com Tournament
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where they defeated
Lamar and
Idaho
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before losing in the quarterfinals to
Saint Peter's.
Previous season
The
Bobcats
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finished the
2015–16 season 15–16, 8–12 in Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for seventh place. They defeated
Georgia State Georgia state or ''variation'', may refer to:
Primarily
* Georgia State University ("State", "Georgia State"), a state university
* Georgia (U.S. state) ("Georgia state"), a state of the United States of America
Sports
* sports teams of Georgia St ...
in the first round of the
Sun Belt tournament to advance to the quarterfinals where they lost to
Texas–Arlington.
Roster
Schedule and results
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CIT
References
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