The 2017–2018 Bryant Bulldogs men's basketball team represented

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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 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, on April 2, 2018. Practices offici ...

. The team, led by 10th-year head coach

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, played their home games at the Chace Athletic Center in

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as members of the

Northeast Conference The Northeast Conference (NEC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Teams in the NEC compete in Division I for all sports; football competes in the Division I Foo ...

. They finished the season 3–28, 2–16 in NEC play to finish in last place. They failed to qualify for the NEC tournament. On February 12, 2018, Tim O'Shea announced that he would retire at the end of the season. He finished at Bryant with a ten-year record of 96–210. On April 2, the school hired

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assistant

Jared Grasso Jared Keith Grasso (born May 11, 1980) is an American basketball coach who currently is the head coach at The Knox School. A former college basketball coach, Grasso was most recently the head coach of the Bryant Bulldogs men's basketball team fro ...

as head coach.

Previous season

The

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finished the 2016–17 season 12–20, 9–9 in NEC play to finish tied for fifth place. They participated in the NEC tournament, losing in the quarterfinals to Saint Francis (PA).

Preseason

In a poll of league coaches at the NEC media day, the Bulldogs were picked to finish in eighth place.

Roster

Schedule and results

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References

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