Sport: | basketball |
Prev Year: | 2022–23 |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Next Year: | 2024–25 |
Team: | Wagner Seahawks |
Conference: | Northeast Conference |
Short Conf: | NEC |
Record: | 17–16 |
Conf Record: | 7–9 |
Head Coach: | Donald Copeland |
Hc Year: | 2nd |
Asst Coach1: | Kevin Jones |
Asst Coach2: | Scott Rodgers |
Asst Coach3: | Kevin Lynch |
Arena: | Spiro Sports Center |
Champion: | NEC tournament champions |
Tourney: | NCAA tournament, First Round |
The 2023–24 Wagner Seahawks men's basketball team represented Wagner College during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Seahawks, led by second-year head coach Donald Copeland, played their home games at the Spiro Sports Center in Staten Island, New York as members of the Northeast Conference. They finished the season 17–16, 7–9 in NEC play to finish in sixth place. As the No. 6 seed in the NEC Tournament, they defeated Sacred Heart, Central Connecticut, and Merrimack to win the NEC tournament championship, as a result, they received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament for the second time in school history and the first time since 2003. As a No. 16 seed in the West region, they defeated to Howard in the First Four, before losing to North Carolina in the First Round.
The Northeast Conference released its preseason coaches' poll on October 24, 2023. The Seahawks were picked to finish in fifth in the conference.[1]
1. | Sacred Heart (7) |
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2. | Central Connecticut (1) |
3. | Fairleigh Dickinson (1) |
4. | Merrimack |
5. | Wagner |
6. | Stonehill |
7. | LIU |
8. | Saint Francis |
9. | Le Moyne |
The Seahawks finished the 2022–23 season 15–13, 8–8 in NEC play to finish in a tie for fifth place. In the NEC tournament, they were defeated by Sacred Heart in the first round.[2]
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