The 2017–18 Arkansas State Red Wolves men's basketball team represented Arkansas State University during the

2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 10, 2017. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic and the season ended with the Final Four in San Antonio on April 2, 2018. Practices officially began on September 2 ...

. The Red Wolves, led by first-year head coach

Mike Balado Mike Balado is an American college basketball coach who was last the head coach at Arkansas State University. He was formerly an assistant coach at the University of Louisville The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public research universi ...

, played their home games at the First National Bank Arena in Jonesboro, Arkansas as members of the

Sun Belt Conference The Sun Belt Conference (SBC) is a collegiate athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAA's Division I since 1976. Originally a non-football conference, the Sun Belt began sponsoring football in 2001. Its football teams participa ...

. They finished the season 11–21, 6–12 in Sun Belt play to finish in 11th place. They lost in the first round of the Sun Belt tournament to

Louisiana–Monroe The University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM) is a public university in Monroe, Louisiana. It is part of the University of Louisiana System. History ULM opened in 1931 as Ouachita Parish Junior College. Three years later it became the Northeast Ce ...

Previous season

The Red Wolves finished the 2016–17 season 20–12, 11–7 in Sun Belt play to finish in a three-way tie for third place. As the No. 5 seed in the Sun Belt tournament, they lost to

in the first round. Despite having 20 wins, they did not participate in a postseason tournament. On March 13, 2017, head coach

Grant McCasland Grant McCasland (born October 14, 1976) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach for Texas Tech Red Raiders. McCasland previously coached at North Texas from 2017 to 2023, where he guided the Mean Green to two postse ...

left the school to accept the head coaching position at North Texas. On March 20, the school named Louisville assistant

as their new head coach.

Roster

Schedule and results

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References

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