Sport: | Basketball |
Year: | 2022–23 |
Prev Year: | 2021–22 |
Next Year: | 2023–24 |
Team: | George Mason Patriots |
Conference: | Atlantic 10 Conference |
Short Conf: | A–10 |
Record: | 20–13 |
Conf Record: | 11–7 |
Hc Year: | 2nd |
Asst Coach3: | Nate Tomlinson |
The 2022–23 George Mason Patriots Men's basketball team represented George Mason University during the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The season was the 57th for the program, the second under head coach Kim English, and the tenth as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10). The Patriots played their home games at EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia. They finished the season 20–13, 11–7 in A-10 play, to finish in fifth place. This was the first season since 2017 that the Patriots finished the season with at least 20 wins. They defeated Richmond in the second round of the A-10 tournament before losing to Saint Louis.
On March 23, 2023, head coach Kim English left the school to take the head coaching job at Providence.[1] On March 30, the school named Maryland assistant coach Tony Skinn the team's new head coach.[2]
In Kim English's first season as head coach, the Patriots finished the 2021–22 season 14–16, 7–9 in A-10 play, to finish in ninth place. Their season ended with a loss to Fordham in the second round of the A-10 tournament.[3]
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Notes | ||
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sortname | Blake Buchanan | 22 | G | 6'5" | 205 | Grad Senior | Graduated | ||
sortname | Otis Frazier | 5 | F | 6'6" | 212 | Junior | Transferred to UTEP | ||
sortname | Jamal Hartwell II | 10 | G | 5'10" | 155 | Grad Senior | Transferred to UC Riverside | ||
sortname | TJ Gadsden | 32 | G/F | 6'7" | 192 | Freshman | Transferred to Canisius | ||
sortname | Mike Gray | 11 | G | 6'1" | 160 | Sophomore | |||
sortname | Xavier Johnson | 2 | G | 6'1" | 186 | Senior | Transferred to Southern Illinois | ||
sortname | Joel Kabimba | 33 | F | 6'8" | 210 | Freshman | Transferred to Bryant | ||
sortname | Sam Shelton | 4 | G | 6'1" | 210 | Freshman | |||
sortname | D'Shawn Schwartz | 15 | G/F | 6'7" | 232 | Grad Senior | Graduated |
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
sortname | Victor Bailey Jr. | G | 6'4" | 182 | RS Junior | Transferred from Tennessee | ||
sortname | Devin Dinkins | G | 5'10" | 155 | Freshman | |||
sortname | Justyn Fernandez | G/F | 6'5" | 200 | Freshman | |||
sortname | Peter Oduro | F | 6'9" | 224 | Freshman | |||
Andrei O'Grady- Cook | G | 5'10" | 155 | RS Freshman | Alexandria, VA | Transferred from Saint Vincent | ||
sortname | Saquan Singleton | G | 6'6" | 190 | RS Junior | Transferred from New Mexico | ||
All Atlantic 10 First Team
Atlantic 10 Player of the Week
Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Josh Oduro | 33 | 33 | 29.1 | .551 | .233 | .616 | 7.9 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 15.6 | |
Victor Bailey Jr. | 24 | 20 | 31.7 | .449 | .470 | .804 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 11.8 | |
Ronald Polite III | 30 | 28 | 31.8 | .441 | .364 | .790 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 11.5 | |
DeVon Cooper | 33 | 33 | 33.3 | .362 | .333 | .782 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 10.2 | |
Davonte Gaines | 23 | 23 | 27.0 | .382 | .343 | .744 | 6.1 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 7.3 | |
Ginika Ojiako | 33 | 5 | 10.5 | .580 | .000 | .639 | 2.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 4.2 | |
Justyn Fernandez | 33 | 13 | 14.1 | .370 | .338 | .563 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 4.1 | |
Malik Henry | 32 | 4 | 11.4 | .621 | .000 | .434 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 4.1 | |
Saquan Singleton | 32 | 2 | 16.0 | .457 | .000 | .370 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 3.3 | |
Devin Dinkins | 31 | 4 | 11.4 | .350 | .333 | .742 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 3.1 | |
Kam Johnson | 3 | 0 | 3.7 | .200 | .000 | .000 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | |
Elvis Nnaji | 13 | 0 | 4.0 | .273 | .000 | .000 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
Blake Jones | 23 | 0 | 6.0 | .176 | .231 | .000 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
Peter Oduro | 7 | 0 | 1.6 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
Chase Tucker | 2 | 0 | 1.5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
Andrei O'Grady-Cook | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
|-!colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season|-!colspan=12 style=| A-10 regular season|-!colspan=12 style=| A-10 tournament|-Source[7]