Mode: | basketball |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Prev Year: | 2022–23 |
Next Year: | 2024–25 |
Team: | Iona Gaels |
Conference: | Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference |
Short Conf: | MAAC |
Record: | 16–17 |
Conf Record: | 10–10 |
Head Coach: | Tobin Anderson |
Hc Year: | 1st |
Asst Coach1: | Tom Bonacum |
Asst Coach2: | Kam Murrell |
Asst Coach3: | Patrick Wallace |
Stadium: | Hynes Athletics Center |
The 2023–24 Iona Gaels men's basketball team represented Iona University during the 2023-24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Gaels, led by first-year head coach Tobin Anderson, played their home games at the Hynes Athletics Center located in New Rochelle, New York as members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
The Gaels finished the 2022–23 season 27–8, 17–3 in MAAC play to finish as MAAC regular season champions.[1] They defeated Mount St. Mary's,[2] Niagara,[3] and Marist to win the MAAC tournament championship and earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 13 seed in the West region.[4] There, they lost in the first round to eventual national champions UConn.[5]
On March 20, 2023, head coach Rick Pitino left the team to accept the head coaching job at St. John's.[6] The next day, the school named Fairleigh Dickinson head coach Tobin Anderson the team's new head coach.[7]
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