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The 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 7, 2022. The regular season will end on March 12, 2023, with the
2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament The 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament that determined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball national champion for the 2022– ...
beginning on March 14 and ending with the championship game at NRG Stadium in Houston on April 3.


Rule changes

The following rule changes were recommended by the NCAA Basketball Rules Committee to the Playing Rules Oversight Panel for the 2022−23 season: * Flopping will now result in a Class B technical foul. Previously players called for flopping received a warning before a technical foul was assessed. * Conferences (and the NIT) will continue to allow (on an experimental basis) use of live and prerecorded video streams at the team bench. * Conferences (and the NIT) who choose to use five electronic-media timeouts in the second half of their games will be able to experiment with a new format for granting those timeouts. Currently, for a game using five electronic-media timeouts in the second half, the rulebook prescribes that four of those occur in the same manner as in the first half — that is, at the first dead ball at or after the 16-, 12-, 8-, and 4-minute marks, or up to 30 seconds prior to those marks in specific circumstances. The fifth electronic-media timeout occurs when first timeout requested by either team in the second half automatically becomes an electronic-media timeout. Competitions choosing to use this experimental rule will continue to have five electronic-media timeouts in the second half, but those will occur instead at or after the 17-, 14-, 11-, 8-, and 4-minute marks (or up to 30 seconds prior to those marks in specific circumstances), while the first team-requested timeout will no longer automatically become a media timeout.


Season headlines

* April 20, 2022 **
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, the consensus national player of the year in 2021–22, announced he would return to Kentucky for his senior season. He became the first men's national player of the year to announce a return to college since 2008 player of the year Tyler Hansbrough at North Carolina. ** Jay Wright retired as head coach at Villanova after 21 seasons, ending a tenure that saw the Wildcats make four Final Four appearances, including national titles in
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and
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, and included Wright's 2021 induction to the
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. * June 20 – Darius Lee, who led Houston Baptist (now Houston Christian) in scoring and rebounding last season, was killed in a mass shooting at a gathering in Harlem. Lee, a native of the New York City neighborhood, was the only fatality among the nine victims. On October 25, Lee was posthumously named Southland Conference preseason player of the year by unanimous vote of the conference's coaches. * June 21 – Hartford, which started a transition from Division I to Division III in the 2021–22 school year, was announced as a new member of the D-III Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) effective in 2023–24. The CCC press release also confirmed previous reports that Hartford would leave the America East Conference after the 2021–22 season; the Hawks will play the 2022–23 season as a D-I independent. * June 24 –
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, which had announced a move from the Southland Conference (SLC) to the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), backed out of this move and elected to remain in the SLC. * June 30 – The Big Ten Conference announced that UCLA and
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would join from the
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in 2024, immediately after the current Pac-12 media contracts expire. * July 11 – The SLC and Lamar jointly announced that Lamar, which had previously planned to leave the WAC in 2023 to return to the SLC, would expedite this move for the 2022–23 school year. * July 15 – The WAC announced that starting with the 2023 editions, its men's and women's tournaments would be seeded via a set of advanced metrics that it calls the WAC Résumé Seeding System, developed by statistics guru Ken Pomeroy alongside WAC officials. Tournament entry will still be based on conference record. * August 3 – The
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announced that Campbell would join from the
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in 2023. * August 12 ** The NCAA, which had previously announced that the NIT semifinals and final would not be held at the traditional New York City site for at least 2023 and 2024, announced the sites for those years. The 2023 final rounds will be at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, and the 2024 final rounds will be at Hinkle Fieldhouse in
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. All games before the semifinals will continue to use campus sites. ** The Indiana University and Purdue University systems announced that Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis will be dissolved in 2024 and replaced by separate IU- and Purdue-affiliated institutions. The current athletic program, the IUPUI Jaguars, will transfer to the new IU Indianapolis. * August 31 – The Division I Board of Directors adopted a series of changes to transfer rules. ** Transfer windows were adopted for all Division I sports. Student-athletes who wish to be immediately eligible at their next school must enter the NCAA transfer portal within the designated period(s) for their sport. For men's basketball, the window opens on the day after Selection Sunday and runs for 60 days. ** Student-athletes who experience head coaching changes, or those whose athletic aid is reduced, canceled, or not renewed, may transfer outside designated windows without penalty. ** Transferring student-athletes will be guaranteed their financial aid at their next school through graduation. * September 21 – Houston Baptist University announced it had changed its name to Houston Christian University, effective immediately. The athletic nickname of Huskies was not affected. * October 14 –
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announced that
ASUN Conference The ASUN Conference, formerly the Atlantic Sun Conference, 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 Divisio ...
member
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would join C-USA in 2024. * October 24 – The AP released its preseason All-America team. Reigning national player of the year Oscar Tshiebwe and
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's Drew Timme were unanimous choices, joined by Armando Bacot of North Carolina,
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of Houston, and Trayce Jackson-Davis of Indiana. * November 2 – ESPN reported that
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athletic director Chris Standiford and Big 12 Conference commissioner Brett Yormark had met the previous week in the Dallas area regarding a possible Gonzaga move to that conference as a full but non-football member. The report also indicated that Gonzaga had at least some level of talks with the Big East Conference and Pac-12 Conference in the preceding months. * November 14 – Albany head coach
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, athletic director Mark Benson, and
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were sued by former Great Danes walk-on Luke Fizulich, who claimed that Killings had physically assaulted him before a game in the 2021–22 season, and had also interfered with his continued enrollment at Albany and hindered his chances of transferring to another school. The suit claimed that the university had decided to fire Killings after the incident, but changed the punishment to a five-game suspension under pressure from local business and civil rights leaders, and charged the university with showing preference to the African-American Killings due to his race. * November 17 – During a meeting in San Francisco, the Regents of the University of California, the governing board of the University of California system, set a date of December 14 for a special meeting to make a final determination on UCLA's planned move to the Big Ten.


Milestones and records

* During the season, the following players reached the 2,000 career point milestone – Virginia forward
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, and Marshall guard
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. * November 26 – California lost 67–59 to Clemson to start the season 0–7, becoming the first major-conference team team in the last 40 years to start a season with that record. * November 28 – #18 Alabama defeated #1 North Carolina in 4 overtimes, 103–101. It was the second 4-overtime game in UNC history ( Tulane,
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) and the first time Alabama beat a top-ranked opponent since 2004 (
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). * November 29 – Louisville became the second major-conference team in recent history to have started a season 0–7, losing 79–54 to Maryland. * November 30 –
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of Saint Louis recorded 20 assists in a win over Tennessee State, setting a school record and tying for the fourth-most in a single game in Division I history. * December 1 – Antoine Davis of Detroit Mercy became the all-time leading scorer in the Horizon League, surpassing Alfredrick Hughes' previous record in UDM's 75–66 win over Purdue Fort Wayne.


Conference membership changes

Twenty-six schools joined new conferences or became independents, including five schools from Division II which will start transitions to Division I this season and one in the process of transition from Division I to Division III. As noted previously, Incarnate Word had announced plans to move from the Southland Conference to the Western Athletic Conference, but backed out of that move and remained in the Southland. Lamar, which initially planned to make the opposite move in 2023, pushed this move forward to 2022. The 2022−23 season will be the last for at least 15 Division I schools in their current conferences, and will be Hartford's only season as a D-I independent.


Arenas


New arenas

*This is the first season for Alabama A&M at the new Alabama A&M Events Center. The Bulldogs will play their first game in the new arena against the Lipscomb Bisons on December 9. *
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left GSU Sports Arena for the new Georgia State Convocation Center. The opening ceremony for the new arena was on September 15, with the first event taking place the following day. The Panthers' first official game was a 76–59 win over NAIA member
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on November 7. * Texas moved from the Frank Erwin Center to the
Moody Center Moody Center is a multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in Austin, Texas. The arena, which replaces the Frank Erwin Center, stands on a former parking lot located immediately south of UT's soccer/track and fi ...
. The Longhorns' first official game was a 72–57 win over UTEP on November 7. *This will also be the first season for Fairfield at the new
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, replacing Alumni Hall. Completion is expected in November 2022. The Stags will play their first game there on December 3 against the Saint Peter's Peacocks.


Arenas of new D-I teams

All five new D-I members in 2022–23 play on their respective campuses. * Lindenwood plays at Robert F. Hyland Performance Arena. * Queens plays at Curry Arena. * Southern Indiana plays at Screaming Eagles Arena. * Stonehill plays at Merkert Gymnasium. * Texas A&M University-Commerce plays at the Texas A&M–Commerce Field House.


Arenas closing

The following D-I programs plan to open new arenas for the 2023−24 season. or will move to a different pre-existing venue. All will move within their current campuses otherwise indicated. *
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will leave the on-campus Winfield Dunn Center for the new
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in downtown Clarksville, Tennessee after 49 seasons. The new arena was originally planned to open for the 2022–23 season, but was delayed to 2023–24. * Baylor will leave the Ferrell Center for the new
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; the venue is scheduled to open in the fall of 2023 or early 2024. *
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will leave the Hanner Fieldhouse for the new
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. The venue was scheduled to open in the early fall of 2023, but was delayed until 2024-25 season. * Longwood will leave Willett Hall for the new
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; the venue is scheduled to open in Summer 2023. * St. Francis Brooklyn in 2022 began closing its Remsen Street campus, including
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, as part of the college's move to a new campus on Livingston Street. Home games will at least temporarily be played about 2 miles (3 km) away at
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, as the Livingston Street campus has no basketball venue. The final men's basketball game played at Pope Athletic Complex was a 61–58 win over Saint Peter's on November 19. * Vermont was originally slated to open the new
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, the replacement for
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, in 2021. However, the new arena has since been placed on indefinite hold. Construction was initially halted by COVID-19. With the Tarrant Center being part of a much larger upgrade of UVM's athletic and recreation facilities, UVM chose to prioritize a new student recreation center. Construction of the Tarrant Center is now being hampered by increased borrowing costs.


Seasonal outlook

The Top 25 from the AP and USA Today Coaching Polls


Pre-season polls


Top 10 matchups

Rankings reflect the AP poll Top 25.


Regular season

*Nov. 15 ** No. 6 Kansas defeated No. 7 Duke, 69–64 (
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- Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN) *Nov. 20 ** No. 2
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defeated No. 4 Kentucky, 88–72 ( Spokane Arena, Spokane, WA) ** No. 5 Baylor defeated No. 8 UCLA, 80–75 ( Continental Tire Main Event - T-Mobile Arena, Paradise, NV) *Nov. 22 **No. 10 Creighton defeated No. 9 Arkansas, 90–87 (
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- Lahaina Civic Center,
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) *Dec. 1 **No. 2 Texas defeated No. 7 Creighton, 72–67 ( Big East–Big 12 Battle, Moody Center, Austin, TX) *Dec. 10 **No. 8 Alabama vs. No. 1 Houston ( Fertitta Center, Houston, TX)


Postseason


Regular season


Early season tournaments


Upsets

An upset is a victory by an underdog team. In the context of NCAA Division I men's basketball, this generally constitutes an unranked team defeating a team currently ranked in the top 25. This list will highlight those upsets of ranked teams by unranked teams as well as upsets of No. 1 teams. Rankings are from the AP poll. Bold type indicates winning teams in "true road games"—i.e., those played on an opponent's home court (including secondary homes). In addition to the above listed upsets in which an unranked team defeated a ranked team, there have been five non-Division I teams to defeat a Division I team so far this season. Bold type indicates winning teams in "true road games"—i.e., those played on an opponents home court (including secondary homes).


Conference standings


Coaching changes

Many teams will change coaches during the season and after it ends. Two teams changed coaches shortly before their first regular-season games.


See also

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References

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