The 2020–21 Chicago State Cougars men's basketball team represented

Chicago State University Chicago State University (CSU) is a Historically black colleges and universities, predominantly black (PBI) public university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It includes an honors program for undergraduates and offers bachelor's and master ...

in the

2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 25, 2020, and concluded on March 14, 2021. The 2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament culminated the season and began on March 18 and concluded on April 5. Season ...

. The Cougars were led by third-year head coach

Lance Irvin Lance Irvin is an American college basketball coach, formerly head coach of the Chicago State Cougars men's basketball team. Playing career Irvin played college basketball at Colorado State during the 1987–88 season before transferring to Ida ...

. They played their home games at the Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center as members of the

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, Texas, Utah and Washington (state), Washington. Due to ...

. They finished the season 0–9, 0–0 in WAC play before suspending the season due to COVID-19 and an insufficient number of players.

Previous season

The 2019–20 Cougars finished the 2019–20 season 4–25, 0–14 in WAC play to finish in last place. They were set to be the eighth overall seed in the WAC tournament, but the tournament was cancelled due to the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

Offseason

Departures

Transfers

* Levelle Ziegler - East LA College * Isaiah Simpson - Santa Monica College * Aaris-Monte Bonds - Southeastern CC * Coreyoun Rushin - Idaho State * Jordan Polynice - East LA College

2020 recruiting class

Preseason

WAC media poll

The WAC men's basketball media poll was released on October 27, 2020. Chicago State was picked to finish ninth.

Roster

Schedule

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Rankings

*AP does not release post-NCAA Tournament rankings

References

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