Mode: | Basketball |
Sex: | none |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Prev Year: | 2022–23 |
Next Year: | 2024–25 |
Team: | North Texas Mean Green men's |
Conference: | American Athletic Conference |
Short Conf: | AAC |
Record: | 19–15 |
Conf Record: | 10–8 |
Hc Year: | 1st |
Asst Coach1: | Johnny Estelle |
Asst Coach2: | Phil Forte |
Tourney Result: | Second Round |
The 2023–24 North Texas Mean Green men's basketball team represented the University of North Texas during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was led by first-year head coach Ross Hodge, and played their home games at UNT Coliseum in Denton, Texas as first year members of the American Athletic Conference.
The Mean Green finished the 2022–23 season 31–7, 16–4 in C-USA play to finish in second place. They defeated Louisiana Tech in the quarterfinals of the C-USA tournament before losing to UAB. They received an at-large bid to the National Invitation Tournament as a No. 2 seed. They defeated Alcorn State, Sam Houston, Oklahoma State, and Wisconsin to advance to the championship game. There they defeated C-USA foe UAB to win the NIT championship.
On March 31, 2023, head coach Grant McCasland left the school to take the head coaching position at Texas Tech.[1] On April 2, the school named associate head coach Ross Hodge the team's new head coach.[2]
The season marked the team's last season as members of Conference USA before joining the American Athletic Conference on July 1, 2023.[3]
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Reason for departure | |
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Rasheed Browne | 0 | G | 6'2" | 182 | RS Senior | Graduated | ||
Bryce Zephir | 2 | G | 6'2" | 200 | Junior | Transferred to Salt Lake CC | ||
Tyree Eady | 4 | G | 6'5" | 215 | RS Senior | Graduated | ||
5 | G | 5'11" | 182 | Senior | Graduate transferred to Kansas State | |||
Kai Huntsberry | 10 | G | 6'3" | 215 | Senior | Left the team for personal reasons | ||
Arsh Mattu | 13 | G | 6'3" | 192 | RS Sophomore | Walk-on; left the team for personal reasons | ||
Jayden Martinez | 25 | F | 6'7" | 215 | GS Senior | Graduated | ||
Abou Ousmane | 33 | F | 6'10" | 230 | Junior | Transferred to Xavier |
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Previous School | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Buggs | 0 | G | 6'3" | 185 | RS Junior | UTSA | ||
Jason Edwards | 2 | G | 6'0" | RS Sophomore | Dodge City CC | |||
Rondel Walker | 5 | G | 6'5" | 185 | Junior | TCU | ||
Robert Allen | 10 | F | 6'8" | 230 | GS Senior | Ole Miss | ||
Terrance Dixon | 13 | F | 6'8" | 200 | Sophomore | Kilgore College | ||
C. J. Noland | 22 | G | 6'2" | 229 | Junior | Oklahoma |
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