The 2018–19 Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons men's basketball team represented

Purdue University Fort Wayne Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW) is a public university in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. A campus of Purdue University, Purdue Fort Wayne was founded on July 1, 2018, when its predecessor university, Indiana University–Purdue University ...

during the

2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 6, 2018. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic and the season concluded with the Final Four in Minneapolis on April 8, 2019. Practices officially began on Septembe ...

. The Mastodons were led by fifth-year head coach

Jon Coffman Jonathan Glenn Coffman (born July 28, 1973) is an American college basketball coach, currently men's head coach at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Coffman was hired as an assistant to head coach IPFW head coach Tony Jasick in 2011. When Jasick chos ...

and split their home games between the Gates Sports Center and the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum as members of the

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. The season was the first in which Mastodons represented the new Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). The team previously represented the now defunct

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. On July 1, 2018, IPFW split into two separate institutions, with IU taking responsibility for IPFW's degree programs in health sciences and

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retaining all other academic programs. The Mastodons have since represented PFW. With the name change, the school's colors changed from Royal Blue and White to the Old Gold and Black used by the other three Purdue University campuses. On June 18, 2018, the school announced that beginning July 1, 2018 all NCAA sports teams would be known as the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons. In addition, a new logo was revealed where the color blue has been incorporated as a secondary color to the university's official school colors of gold and black.

Previous season

The

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finished the 2017–18 season 18–15, 7–7 in Summit League play to finish in fourth place. They lost in the quarterfinals of the Summit League tournament to

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. They were invited to the CollegeInsdier.com Tournament where they lost in the first round to

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. The season was the last in which the Mastodons represented IPFW, using "Fort Wayne" as its athletic brand.

Roster

Schedule and results

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References

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