Mode: | Basketball |
Sex: | none |
Year: | 2022–23 |
Prev Year: | 2021–22 |
Next Year: | 2023–24 |
Team: | Louisiana Tech Bulldogs |
Conference: | Conference USA |
Short Conf: | C-USA |
Record: | 15–18 |
Conf Record: | 7–13 |
Hc Year: | 1st |
Asst Coach1: | Winston Hines |
Asst Coach2: | Aaron Smith |
Asst Coach3: | Darshawn McClellan |
The 2022–23 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs basketball team represented Louisiana Tech University during the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was led by first-year head coach Talvin Hester, and played their home games at Thomas Assembly Center in Ruston, Louisiana as a members of Conference USA.
The Bulldogs finished the 2021–22 season 24–10, 12–6 in C-USA play to finish third place in the West Division. They defeated Marshall, Western Kentucky, North Texas to advance to the championship game of the C-USA tournament where they lost to UAB. Despite having 24 wins, they were not invited to a postseason tournament.
On March 22, 2022, head coach Eric Konkol left the school to accept the head coaching position at Tulsa.[1] [2] A week later, the school named Texas Tech assistant coach Talvin Hester the team's new head coach.[3] [4]
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Reason for departure | |
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2 | F | 6'7" | 275 | Sophomore | Declare for 2022 NBA draft | |||
Amorie Archibald | 3 | G | 6'3" | 185 | GS Senior | Graduated | ||
Stacey Thomas | 13 | F | 6'8" | 220 | Senior | Graduate transferred to LSU–Shreveport | ||
Exavian Christon | 21 | G | 6'4" | 200 | GS Senior | Graduated |
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Previous school | |
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Dravon Mangum | 2 | F | 6'8" | 200 | RS Senior | Radford | ||
Quandre Bullock | 3 | F | 6'6" | 195 | Junior | Angelina College |
|-!colspan=9 style=| Regular season|-!colspan=9 style=| Conference USA tournamentSource[5]