Mode: | Basketball |
Year: | 2019–20 |
Prev Year: | 2018–19 |
Next Year: | 2020–21 |
Team: | Saint Joseph's Hawks |
Conference: | Atlantic 10 Conference |
Short Conf: | A-10 |
Record: | 6–26 |
Conf Record: | 2–16 |
Hc Year: | 1st |
Asst Coach1: | John Griffin III |
Asst Coach2: | Justin Scott |
Asst Coach3: | Brenden Straughn |
The 2019–20 Saint Joseph's Hawks basketball team represented Saint Joseph's University during the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Hawks were led by first-year head coach Billy Lange, They played their home games at Hagan Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.
St. Joseph's finished the season with a 6–26 record and finished 2–16 in Atlantic 10 play. They entered as the bottom seed in the 2020 Atlantic 10 men's basketball tournament. There, they were eliminated in the first round by George Mason, 70–77.
The Hawks finished the 2018–19 season 14–19 overall, 6–12 in A-10 play to finish in a tie for 10th place. As the No. 10 seed in the A-10 tournament, they advanced to the quarterfinals, where they lost to Davidson.
On March 19, 2019, Phil Martelli was fired after 24 seasons as the head coach.[1] He ended his tenure at Saint Joseph's with a 444–328 record. Shortly thereafter, the school hired Philadelphia 76ers assistant coach Billy Lange as head coach.[2]
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Reason for departure | |
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0 | G | 6'0" | 185 | RS Junior | Graduate transferred to Louisville | |||
2 | F | 6'7" | 197 | RS Sophomore | Declare for 2019 NBA draft | |||
Jared Bynum | 3 | G | 5'10" | 172 | Freshman | Transferred to Providence | ||
Chris Clover | 15 | G | 6'3" | 217 | Senior | Graduated | ||
Mike Muggeo | 20 | G | 6'3" | 203 | Senior | Walk-on; graduated | ||
Markell Lodge | 23 | F | 6'7" | 217 | RS Senior | Graduated | ||
Pierfrancesco Oliva | 24 | F | 6'8" | 212 | RS Junior | Signed to play professionally in Italy with Roseto Sharks |
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Previous School | |
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Myles Douglas | 2 | F | 6'8" | 215 | RS Sophomore | Transferred from UCF. Will be eligible to play. | ||
Greg Foster Jr. | 23 | G | 6'5" | 195 | Sophomore | Transferred from Gonzaga. Under NCAA transfer rules, Foster Jr. will sit out the 2019–20 season and will have three years of remaining eligibility. | ||
Dennis Ashley | 25 | G | 6'1" | 176 | RS Senior | Transferred from Maine. Will be eligible to play immediately since Ashley graduated from Maine. |
|-!colspan=9 style=| Regular season|-!colspan=9 style=| Atlantic 10 tournamentSource[3]