| 2022–23 Sun Belt Conference men's basketball season | |
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| League: | NCAA Division I |
| Sport: | Basketball |
| No Of Teams: | 14 |
| Tv: | ESPN |
| Season: | 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season |
| Season Champs: | Southern Miss |
| Season Champ Name: | Regular season champions |
| League Champs: | Louisiana |
| League Champ Name: | Tournament Champion |
| Mvp Link: | Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year |
| Finals: | Tournament |
| Finals Link: | 2023 Sun Belt Conference men's basketball tournament |
| Finals Champ: | Louisiana |
| Finals Runner-Up: | South Alabama |
| Finals Mvp Link: | Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament#Champions by year |
| Seasonslistnames: | Basketball |
| Prevseason Year: | 2021–22 |
| Nextseason Year: | 2023–24 |
The 2022–23 Sun Belt men's basketball season will be the season for Sun Belt Conference basketball teams that will begin with practices in October 2022, followed by the start of the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November 2022. The regular ended in March 2023.
The SBC lost two members and gained four in July 2022.
The conference's two non-football members, Little Rock and UT Arlington, left with Little Rock joining the Ohio Valley Conference and UT Arlington joining the Western Athletic Conference.[1] [2] Three schools left Conference USA to join the SBC—Marshall, Old Dominion, and Southern Miss, with Old Dominion returning to the SBC after a 31-year absence.[3] James Madison joined from the Colonial Athletic Association.[4]
Following an appearance in the 2022 NCAA Division I tournament, Georgia State head coach Rob Lanier left to coach the SMU Mustangs.[5] On April 6, 2022, Jonas Hayes was named as the new head coach starting the 2022 regular season.[6]
| Team | Head coach | Previous job | Years at school | Overall record | Sun Belt record | Sun Belt titles | Sun Belt Tournament titles | NCAA Tournaments |
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| Appalachian State | Presbyterian | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Arkansas State | Mike Balado | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Coastal Carolina | Cliff Ellis | Auburn | 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Georgia Southern | Brian Burg | Texas Tech (Asst.) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Georgia State | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| James Madison | Mark Byington | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Louisiana | Bob Marlin | Sam Houston | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Louisiana–Monroe | Keith Richard | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Marshall | Dan D'Antoni | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Old Dominion | American | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| South Alabama | Nicholls | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Southern Miss | Jay Ladner |