Mode: | Basketball |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Prev Year: | 2022–23 |
Next Year: | 2024–25 |
Team: | Coastal Carolina Chanticleers |
Conference: | Sun Belt Conference |
Short Conf: | Sun Belt |
Record: | 9–22 |
Conf Record: | 5–13 |
Hc Year: | 17th |
Hc Games: | first 8 games, retired Dec. 6 |
Hc Games2: | interim, rest of season |
Asst Coach2: | Nima Omidvar |
Asst Coach3: | Joey Brooks |
The 2023–24 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers men's basketball team represented Coastal Carolina University in the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Chanticleers played their home games at the HTC Center in Conway, South Carolina as members of the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by 17th-year head coach Cliff Ellis for the first eight games of the season before he retired on December 8, 2023, with longtime associate head coach Benny Moss taking over for the rest of the season.[1] They finished the season 9–22, 5–13 in Sun Belt play, to finish in thirteenth place. As the No. 13 seed in the Sun Belt tournament, they defeated Louisiana–Monroe in the first round,[2] before losing to Louisiana in the second round.[3]
On March 11, 2024, the school named Western Carolina coach Justin Gray the team's new head coach.[4]
The Chanticleers finished the 2022–23 season 11–20, 5–13 in Sun Belt play, to finish in twelfth place.[5] They lost to Arkansas State in the first round of the Sun Belt Conference tournament.[6]
The Chanticleers were picked to finish in 12th place in the conference's preseason poll.[7]
Coaches poll | ||
1 | James Madison – 176 (7) | |
2 | App State – 159 (2) | |
3 | Old Dominion – 154 (1) | |
4 | Southern Miss – 148 | |
5 | Louisiana – 136 (2) | |
6 | South Alabama – 129 (2) | |
7 | Marshall – 119 | |
8 | Troy – 91 | |
9 | Arkansas State – 84 | |
10 | Texas State – 72 | |
11 | Georgia State – 69 | |
12 | Coastal Carolina – 59 | |
13 | Georgia Southern – 42 | |
14 | ULM – 32 |
|-!colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season|-!colspan=9 style=| Sun Belt regular season|-!colspan=9 style=| Sun Belt tournament|-Sources:[8] [9]