The 2023–24 Fairleigh Dickinson Knights men's basketball team represented

Fairleigh Dickinson University Fairleigh Dickinson University () is a private university with its main campuses in New Jersey, located in Madison / Florham Park and in Teaneck / Hackensack. Founded in 1942, Fairleigh Dickinson University offers more than 100 degree prog ...

in the

2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 6, 2023. The regular season ended on March 17, 2024, with the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament beginning with the First Four on March 19 and ending with th ...

. The Knights, led by first-year head coach Jack Castleberry, played their home games in

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as members of the

Northeast Conference The Northeast Conference (NEC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Teams in the NEC compete in Division I for all sports; football competes in the Division I Foo ...

(NEC). During the season, on January 18, 2024, the name of the Knights' home venue was changed from the Rothman Center to the Bogota Savings Bank Center.

Preseason polls

Northeast Conference poll

The Northeast Conference released its preseason coaches' poll on October 24, 2023. The Knights were picked to finish in third in the conference. ''() first-place votes''

Preseason All-Conference Team

Junior forward Ansley Almonor was selected as a member of the NEC Preseason All-Conference Team.

Previous season

The

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finished the 2022–23 season 17–14, 10–6 in NEC play, to finish in a tie for second place. As the number two seed in the NEC tournament, they defeated St. Francis Brooklyn and Saint Francis (PA) to advance to the championship game where they lost to Merrimack. However, because Merrimack was in a transition period from Division II to Division I and ineligible for the NCAA tournament, the Knights received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 16 seed in the East region. In the

First Four The First Four is a play-in round of the NCAA Division I men's and women's basketball tournaments. It consists of two games contested between the four lowest-ranked teams in the field (usually the four lowest-ranked conference champions), an ...

, they defeated

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to advance to the first round. There they became only the second No. 16 seed ever to upset a No. 1 seed by defeating

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. The Knights would then go on to lose in the second round to Florida Atlantic. On March 21, 2023, head coach

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left the school to become the head coach at

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. The same day, the school promoted assistant coach Jack Castleberry to head coach.

Roster

Schedule and results

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References

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Fairleigh Dickinson Knights The Fairleigh Dickinson Knights refer to the 17 intercollegiate sports teams representing Fairleigh Dickinson University's Metropolitan campus in Teaneck & Hackensack, New Jersey. Fairleigh Dickinson's Florham Campus has a different mascot, t ...

Fairleigh Dickinson Knights men's basketball The Fairleigh Dickinson Knights men's basketball is the NCAA Division I intercollegiate men's basketball program that represents Fairleigh Dickinson University in Hackensack, New Jersey. The school's team currently competes in the Northeast Conf ...