The 2022–23 Davidson Wildcats men's basketball team represented

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during the

2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 7, 2022. The regular season ended on March 12, 2023, with the 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament beginning with the First Four on March 14 and ending with th ...

. The Wildcats were led by first-year head coach Matt McKillop and played their home games at the John M. Belk Arena in

Davidson, North Carolina Davidson is a suburban town in Mecklenburg, Iredell, and Cabarrus counties, North Carolina, United States. It is a suburb in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The population was 15,106 at the 2020 census, up from 10,944 in 2010. The town was ...

as members of the

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(A-10).

Previous season

The

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finished the 2021–22 season 27–7, 15–3 in A-10 play, to win the regular season championship. They defeated Fordham and Saint Louis to advance to the championship game of the A-10 tournament where they lost to

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. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 10 seed in the West Region, where they lost in the first round to

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. On June 18, 2022, the school announced that head coach

Bob McKillop Robert McKillop (born July 13, 1950) is an American college basketball coach who is the former head coach of the Davidson Wildcats men's team of the Atlantic 10 Conference. He has a 100 percent graduation rate for his players during a 33-year t ...

was retiring after 33 years at the school. His son, Matt McKillop, who had served as an assistant for 14 years, was promoted to head coach.

Offseason

Departures

Incoming transfers

Recruiting classes

2022 recruiting class

Source

Roster

Schedule and results

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References

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Davidson Wildcats men's basketball The Davidson Wildcats basketball team is the basketball team that represents Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, in the NCAA. The school's team currently competes in the Atlantic 10 Conference. The team last played in the NCAA Division ...