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 with the championship game at State Farm Stadium in Glendale on April 8.

Rule changes

On May 5, 2023, the NCAA Basketball Rules Committee proposed a suite of rule changes for the 2023–24 season. These changes were approved by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel during its June 8 conference call.
* A defender near the basket must be in position to draw a charge before the offensive player plants his foot to jump during a field goal attempt. If the defender arrives after the shooter has planted his foot, the officials are to call a blocking foul if contact occurs.
* Prerecorded or live video can be transmitted to the bench area during the game, on an optional basis. This had been an experimental rule since 2021–22, but is now permanent.
* Officials will be able to review basket interference or goaltending calls during the next media timeout to ensure the calls' accuracy, as long as they were made during play. Review is immediate if a foul is called on a shot that ended with basket interference or goaltending.
* Non-student bench personnel will be allowed to serve as peacekeepers in any altercation.
* If a coach requests a review of an out-of-bounds play in the last two minutes, that team will be charged a timeout if the challenge is unsuccessful.
* The shot clock will reset to 20 seconds for all offensive rebounds when the original shot has touched the rim.
* If a player is called for a foul, and replay officials see that the foul is the direct result of a flagrant foul against the player who was originally charged with the foul, officials can rescind the foul on the victim of the flagrant foul.
* A timeout can be granted when a player has possession of the ball while airborne.
* A player will be disqualified if he commits three flagrant 1 fouls in a game, regardless of his overall foul count.
* Red and amber lights can now be placed on the backboard.
* Schools will no longer have to apply for a waiver to allow players to use religious headwear that is safe for competition.
* All numbers from 0–99 will be allowed. Previously, player numbers could only include digits from 0 to 5.
* Conferences will be allowed to continue using an experimental rule that allows for media timeouts to be taken at the first dead ball after the 17-, 14-, 11-, 8-, and 4-minute marks of the second half. This rule may also be used in the 2024 NIT, subject to approval by the NCAA's NIT board.
* Also subject to NIT board approval, the free-throw lane may be widened to 16 feet in the 2024 NIT.

Season headlines

* March 8, 2023
** Jim Boeheim retired as head coach at Syracuse after 47 seasons, ending with the Orange missing the 2023 NCAA Tournament for only the 11th time in his coaching history. He finished his career at Syracuse with a 1,015–441 record; his 1,015 wins were 6th all time in NCAA history at the time of his retirement. He also led Syracuse to one national title, five Final Fours, ten Big East regular-season titles, and five Big East tournament titles, and he was Big East coach of the year four times and the 2010 Naismith, AP, NABC, Henry Iba and ''Sporting News'' coach of the year. Boeheim was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005, and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.
* May 10 – The Northeast Conference announced that Le Moyne would start a transition from Division II and join the conference on July 1.
* May 12 – The Ohio Valley Conference announced that Western Illinois would join from the Summit League effective July 1.
* May 24 – George Washington University announced that it would change its nickname from Colonials to Revolutionaries.
* July 20 – The Colonial Athletic Association announced it had changed its name to Coastal Athletic Association.
* July 27 – The Big 12 Conference announced that Colorado would rejoin the conference in 2024, after 13 seasons in the Pac-12 Conference.
* August 4
** The Big Ten Conference announced that Oregon and Washington would leave the Pac-12 to join the Big Ten in 2024.
** The Big 12 announced that Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah would leave the Pac-12 to join the Big 12 in 2024.

Milestones and records

Conference membership changes

Nineteen schools joined new conferences, became independents, or dropped athletics.

The 2023−24 season is the last for at least 11 Division I schools in their current conferences.

In addition to the above changes, the Indiana University and Purdue University systems will split IUPUI into separate IU- and Purdue-affiliated institutions at the end of the 2023–24 academic year, a move similar to the two systems' dissolution of their joint Fort Wayne campus in 2018. The IUPUI athletic program will be transferred to the new IU Indianapolis, maintaining IUPUI's memberships in Division I and the Horizon League.

Arenas

New arenas

* Austin Peay will leave the on-campus Winfield Dunn Center for the new F&M Bank Arena in downtown Clarksville, Tennessee after 49 seasons. The new arena was originally planned to open for the 2022–23 season, but was delayed to 2023–24.
* Baylor will leave the Ferrell Center for the new Foster Pavilion; the venue is scheduled to open in the fall of 2023 or early 2024.
* Georgia Southern will leave the Hanner Fieldhouse for the new Jack and Ruth Ann Hill Convocation Center. The venue was scheduled to open in the early fall of 2023, but was delayed until 2024–25 season.
* Longwood will leave Willett Hall for the new Joan Perry Brock Center; the venue is scheduled to open in summer 2023.
* Vermont was originally slated to open the new Tarrant Event Center, the replacement for Patrick Gym, in 2021. However, the new arena has since been placed on indefinite hold. Construction was initially halted by COVID-19. With the Tarrant Center being part of a much larger upgrade of UVM's athletic and recreation facilities, UVM chose to prioritize a new student recreation center. Construction of the Tarrant Center is now being hampered by increased borrowing costs.

Arenas closing

The following D-I programs plan to open new arenas for the 2023−24 season. or will move to a different pre-existing venue. All will move within their current campuses otherwise indicated.

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Seasonal outlook

The Top 25 from the AP and USA Today Coaching Polls

Pre-season polls

Final polls

Top 10 matchups

Rankings reflect the AP poll Top 25.

Regular season

* Nov.

Postseason

Regular season

Early season tournaments

Upsets

An upset is a victory by an underdog team. In the context of NCAA Division I men's basketball, this generally constitutes an unranked team defeating a team currently ranked in the top 25. This list will highlight those upsets of ranked teams by unranked teams as well as upsets of No. 1 teams. Rankings are from the AP poll. Bold type indicates winning teams in "true road games"—i.e., those played on an opponent's home court (including secondary homes). ''Italics'' type indicates winning teams in an early season tournament (or event). Early season tournaments are tournaments played in the early season. Events are the tournaments with the same teams in it every year (even rivalry games).

In addition to the above listed upsets in which an unranked team defeated a ranked team, there have been eight non-Division I teams to defeat a Division I team so far this season. Bold type indicates winning teams in "true road games"—i.e., those played on an opponents home court (including secondary homes).

Conference winners and tournaments

Each of the 32 Division I athletic conferences will end its regular season with a single-elimination tournament. The team with the best regular-season record in each conference receives the number one seed in each tournament, with tiebreakers used as needed in the case of ties for the top seeding. Unless otherwise noted, the winners of these tournaments will receive automatic invitations to the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

Postseason tournaments

The NCAA Tournament will tip off on March 19, 2024, with the First Four in Dayton, Ohio, and will concluded on April 8 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. A total of 68 teams will enter the tournament. Thirty-two of the teams will earn an automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The remaining 36 teams are granted "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.

Final Four –

State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona

Tournament upsets

Per the NCAA, an upset occurs "when the losing team in an NCAA tournament game was seeded at least two seed lines better than the winning team." The 2024 tournament has zero upsets so far, with TBD in the first round, TBD in the second round, and TBD in the Sweet Sixteen.

National Invitation tournament

After the NCAA Tournament field is announced, the National Invitation Tournament will invited 32 teams to participate, reducing the field's size from 40. Eight teams are given automatic bids for winning their conference regular seasons, and 24 other teams were also invited. The Tournament will take place in Indianapolis, IN at the Hinkle Fieldhouse.

Semifinals and finals

College Basketball Invitational

After the NCAA Tournament field was announced, the College Basketball Invitational invited 16 teams to participate.

Semifinals and finals

Award winners

2024 consensus All-Americans

Major player of the year awards

* Wooden Award:
* Naismith Award:
* Associated Press Player of the Year:
* NABC Player of the Year:
* Oscar Robertson Trophy (USBWA):
* ''Sporting News'' Player of the Year:

Major freshman of the year awards

* Wayman Tisdale Award (USBWA):
* NABC Freshman of the Year:

Major coach of the year awards

* Associated Press Coach of the Year:
* Henry Iba Award (USBWA):
* NABC Coach of the Year:
* Naismith College Coach of the Year:
* ''Sporting News'' Coach of the Year:

Other major awards

* Naismith Starting Five:
** Bob Cousy Award (best point guard):
** Jerry West Award (best shooting guard):
** Julius Erving Award (best small forward):
** Karl Malone Award (best power forward):
** Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award (best center):
* Pete Newell Big Man Award (best big man):
* NABC Defensive Player of the Year:
* Naismith Defensive Player of the Year:
* Lute Olson Award:
* Robert V. Geasey Trophy (top player in Philadelphia Big 5):
* Haggerty Award (top player in NYC metro area):
* Ben Jobe Award (top minority coach):
* Hugh Durham Award (top mid-major coach):
* Jim Phelan Award (top head coach):
* Lefty Driesell Award (top defensive player):
* Lou Henson Award (top mid-major player):
* Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award (coach with moral character):
* Academic All-American of the Year (top scholar-athlete):
* Elite 90 Award (top GPA among upperclass players at Final Four):
* Perry Wallace Most Courageous Award:

Coaching changes

Many teams will change coaches during the season and after it ends. Two teams so far have had a coaching change between June 1 and the start of the season.

See also

* 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season

References

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