The 2023–24

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men's basketball season began with practices in September 2023 and ended with the

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in March 2024. This was the 44th season for Horizon League men's basketball. This was the final season for Horizon League member IUPUI as an institution. The

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and

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systems dissolved IUPUI at the end of the 2023–24 school year, replacing it with separate IU- and Purdue-affiliated institutions. The IUPUI athletic program transferred to the new IU Indianapolis (branded athletically as IU Indy), maintaining its

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and Horizon League memberships.

Head coaches

Coaching changes

* On January 31, 2023, Green Bay fired head coach

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after three seasons and a 2–19 start. Assistant coach

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was named interim head coach. On March 14, the Phoenix hired

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assistant coach Sundance Wicks as their new head coach.

Coaches

''Notes:'' * Season number includes 2023–24 season. * Records are prior to 2023–24 season.

Preseason

Preseason coaches poll

Preseason All-Horizon League

Regular season

Player of the Week awards

Conference matrix

Early season tournaments

The following table summarizes the multiple-team events (MTE) or early-season tournaments in which teams from the Horizon League will participate.

Postseason

Horizon League tournament

The conference tournament will be played from March 5 to March 12, 2023. The first round and quarterfinals are hosted at campus sites, while the semifinals and finals are held at

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. Teams are seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary. The top five teams receive a bye to the quarterfinals and the bracket is re-seeded after every round.

NCAA Tournament

As the conference champion, Oakland received an automatic bid to the

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College Basketball Invitational

Cleveland State accepted a bid to the

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after finishing as semifinalists in the conference tournament.

CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament

Purdue Fort Wayne accepted a bid to the 2024 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament after finishing as quarterfinalists in the conference tournament.