2021–22 Florida Gulf Coast Eagles Men's Basketball Team
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The 2021–22 Florida Gulf Coast Eagles men's basketball team represented
Florida Gulf Coast University Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) is a public university in Lee County, Florida, near Fort Myers. It is part of the State University System of Florida and is its second-youngest member. The university was established on May 3, 1991, and is acc ...
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 Eagles, led by fourth-year head coach
Michael Fly Michael Fly (born May 29, 1983) is an American college basketball coach and former head coach at Florida Gulf Coast University. Coaching career Fly started coaching as a student at the University of Kentucky, assisting at NAIA Georgetown Coll ...
, played their home games at
Alico Arena Alico Arena is a multipurpose arena located on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University. It is the home of the FGCU Eagles volleyball and men's and women's basketball teams. It holds 4,633 people in basketball configuration. It also feature ...
in
Fort Myers, Florida Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 86,395; it was estimated to have grown to 95,949 in 2022, making it the List o ...
as members of the East division of the
ASUN Conference The Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) is a collegiate athletic conference operating mostly in the Southeastern United States. The league participates at the NCAA Division I level, and began sponsoring football at the Division I FCS level in 2022. ...
. They finished the regular season 21–11, 10–6 to finish in third place in the East division in ASUN play. They defeated
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in the first round of the ASUN tournament before losing to Bellarmine in the quarterfinals. They received an invite to
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, formerly known as the CollegeInsider.com Tournament. On March 5, 2022, the school fired Michael Fly as head coach. On March 14, the school named former Penn State head coach
Pat Chambers Patrick Brian Chambers (born December 13, 1970) is an American college basketball coach and is the current head coach at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is formerly the head men's basketball coach at Penn State and Boston University. Biograph ...
the team's new head coach.


Previous season

In a season limited due to the ongoing
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, the
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finished the 2020–21 season 10–8, 4–5 in ASUN Play to finish in sixth place. They lost in the semifinals of the ASUN tournament to
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.


Roster


Schedule and results

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References

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