The 2021–22 Abilene Christian Wildcats men's basketball team represented

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(ACU) in the

2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 9, 2021 and concluded on March 13, 2022. The 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament culminated the season and began on March 15 and concluded on April 4 with the c ...

. The Wildcats, led by first-year head coach

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, were first-year members of the

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. Due to renovations at their usual home arena of

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, they played their home games on temporary stands and court set up on the indoor tennis courts of the Teague Special Events Center. This season was the Wildcats' first season in the WAC. Abilene Christian and three other schools from Texas joined the conference on July 1, 2021 after leaving the

Southland Conference The Southland Conference (SLC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in ...

Previous season

In a season limited due to the ongoing

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, the

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finished the 2020–21 season 24–5, 13–2 in Southland play to finish in second place. They received a bye to the semifinals of the Southland tournament where they defeated Lamar and Nicholls to win the tournament championship. As a result, they received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 14 seed in the East region. There the Wildcats upset No. 9-ranked

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in the first round. They lost to eventual Final Four participant

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in the second round.

Roster

Schedule and results

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Abilene Christian Wildcats men's basketball The Abilene Christian Wildcats men's basketball team represents Abilene Christian University (ACU) in Abilene, Texas, United States. The Wildcats joined the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) on July 1, 2021, after having spent the previous eight y ...

Abilene Christian

Previous season

Roster

Schedule and results

See also

Notes

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