The 2017–18 La Salle Explorers basketball team represented
La Salle University
La Salle University () is a private, Catholic university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The university was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools and named for St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle.
History
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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 in San Antonio on April 2, 2018. Practices officially began on September 2 ...
. The Explorers, led by 14th-year head coach
John Giannini
John Manfredo Giannini (born October 31, 1962) is an American college basketball coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Rowan University from 1989 to 1996, the University of Maine from 1996 to 2004, and La Salle University from 2 ...
, played their home games at
Tom Gola Arena
Tom Gola Arena, The Tom, The Gola, is a 3,400-seat multi-purpose arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania situated inside the TruMark Financial Center. It is home to the La Salle University Explorers men's and women's basketball teams as well as its v ...
in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as members of the
Atlantic 10 Conference
The Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I. The A-10's member schools are located in states mostly on the United States Eastern ...
. They finished the season 13–19, 7–11 in
A-10 play to finish in a three-way tie for 10th place. As the No. 12 seed in the
A-10 tournament, they lost in the first round to
Massachusetts.
On March 23, 2018, head coach John Giannini and the school mutually agreed to part ways after 14 seasons. Giannini left with a 212–226 record at La Salle. On April 8, the school hired
Villanova assistant
Ashley Howard as head coach.
Previous season
The
Explorers finished the
2016–17 season 15–15, 9–9 in
A-10 play to finish in a tie for seventh place. As the No. 8 seed in the
A-10 tournament, they lost to
Davidson
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* Davidson (name)
* Clan Davidson, a Highland Scottish clan
* Davidson Media Group
* Davidson Seamount, undersea mountain southwest of Monterey, California, USA
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in the first round.
Offseason
Departures
Incoming transfers
2017 recruiting class
2018 recruiting class
Preseason
In a poll of the league’s head coaches and select media members at the conference's media day, the Hawks were picked to finish in ninth place in the A-10.
Senior forward B.J. Johnson was named to the conference's preseason second team.
Roster
Schedule and results
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Atlantic 10 tournament
Source
References
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