Mode: | basketball |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Team: | Lafayette Leopards |
Conference: | Patriot League |
Short Conf: | Patriot |
Record: | 11–21 |
Conf Record: | 10–8 |
Head Coach: | Mike McGarvey |
Hc Year: | 1st |
Asst Coach1: | Nikolai Arnold |
Asst Coach2: | Cameron Ayers |
Asst Coach3: | Sean O'Brien |
Stadium: | Kirby Sports Center |
The 2023–24 Lafayette Leopards men's basketball team represented Lafayette College during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Leopards, led by first-year head coach Mike McGarvey, played their home games at the Kirby Sports Center located in Easton, Pennsylvania as members of the Patriot League.
The Leopards finished the 2022–23 season 11–23, 7–11 in Patriot League play to finish in a four-way tie for sixth place.[1] As the No. 6 seed in the Patriot League tournament, they defeated Lehigh[2] and American to advance to the tournament championship for the first time since 2015,[3] where they would lose to Colgate.[4]
On February 21, 2023, two games before the end of the season, head coach Mike Jordan was placed on administrative leave following a complaint, with associate head coach Mike McGarvey being appointed as the acting head coach.[5] On March 29, the school announced that McGarvey would take over as the team's permanent head coach.[6]
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