The 2023–24 Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team represented
Marshall University during the
2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season will begin on November 6, 2023. The regular season will end on March 17, 2024, with the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament beginning with the First Four on March 19 and ending ...
. The Thundering Herd, led by tenth-year head coach
Dan D'Antoni, played their home games at the
Cam Henderson Center
The Cam Henderson Center is the primary indoor athletics complex at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, USA. 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 13–20, 7–11 in
Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for tenth place. As the No. 10 seed in the
Sun Belt tournament, 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
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in the second round before losing to
James Madison in the quarterfinals.
After the season, it was announced that head coach Dan D'Antoni was let go and replaced by his associate head coach, Cornelius Jackson.
Previous season
The
Thundering Herd finished the season 24–8, 13–5 in
Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for second place. They lost to
Texas State in the quarterfinals of the
Sun Belt tournament. Despite finishing with 24 wins, they did not participate in a postseason tournament.
The season marked the school's inaugural season in the Sun Belt Conference after spending the previous 17 seasons as a member of
Conference USA
Conference USA (C-USA or CUSA) is an intercollegiate athletic conference whose current member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports. C-USA's offices are l ...
.
Offseason
Departures
Incoming transfers
2023 recruiting class
Preseason
Preseason Sun Belt Conference poll
The Thundering Herd were picked to finish in seventh place in the conference's preseason poll.
Senior guard Kamdyn Curfman and senior forward Obinna Anochili-Killen were named to the preseason All-SBC Second Team.
Roster
Schedule and results
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Sun Belt Conference regular season
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Sun Belt Conference Tournament
References
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