The Chicago State Cougars men's basketball team represents

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, United States. The team currently competes as an

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and is led by first-year coach Gerald Gillion, who was hired on July 19, 2021. The Cougars play their home games at the

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. The 2021 Cougars beat the New Mexico State Aggies 61-59 at the last second for probably the biggest win in program history. The Cougars have never beaten a ranked team. The Cougars currently do not play in an NCAA Division 1 conference after departing from the WAC (Western Athletic Conference) in 2022 The 2012–13 Cougars won the Great West Conference tournament championship to earn an automatic bid to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament.

Conference affiliations

* 1966–67 to 1976–77 – NAIA Independent * 1977–78 to 1980–81 – Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference * 1981–82 to 1982–84 – NAIA Independent * 1984–85 to 1992–93 – NCAA Division I Independent * 1993–94

East Coast Conference The East Coast Conference (ECC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the states of C ...

* 1994–95 to 2005–06 –

Mid-Continent Conference The Summit League, or The Summit, is an NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletic conference with its membership mostly located in the Midwestern United States from Illinois on the East of the Mississippi River to the Dakotas and Nebraska on the W ...

* 2006–07 to 2008–09 – NCAA Division I Independent * 2009–10 to 2012–13 –

Great West Conference The Great West Conference (GWC) was an NCAA college athletic conference in the continental United States. Originally a football-only league, it became an all-sports entity during the 2008–09 season. The GWC stopped sponsoring football followin ...

* 2013–14 to 2021–22 –

Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington (state), Washington, and Texa ...

* 2022–23 – Present NCAA Division I Independent

Postseason tournaments

NAIA Tournament results

The Cougars have appeared in three NAIA Tournaments. Their record is 5–3.

CIT results

The Cougars have appeared in one

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(CIT). Their record is 0–1.

References

External links

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