Sport: | basketball |
Prev Year: | 2022–23 |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Next Year: | 2024–25 |
Team: | Sacred Heart Pioneers |
Conference: | Northeast Conference |
Short Conf: | NEC |
Record: | 16–16 |
Conf Record: | 10–6 |
Head Coach: | Anthony Latina |
Hc Year: | 11th |
Assoc Coach: | Kyle Steinway |
Asst Coach1: | Tom Barrett |
Asst Coach2: | Anthony Richards |
Arena: | William H. Pitt Center |
The 2023–24 Sacred Heart Pioneers men's basketball team represented Sacred Heart University during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Pioneers, led by 11th-year head coach Anthony Latina, played their home games at the William H. Pitt Center in Fairfield, Connecticut as members of the Northeast Conference.
On October 23, 2023, it was announced that this season would be the last for Sacred Heart as members of the Northeast Conference, as they will be joining the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference next season.[1]
The Northeast Conference released its preseason coaches' poll on October 24, 2023. The Pioneers were picked to finish first in the conference.[2]
1. | Sacred Heart (7) |
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2. | Central Connecticut (1) |
3. | Fairleigh Dickinson (1) |
4. | Merrimack |
5. | Wagner |
6. | Stonehill |
7. | LIU |
8. | Saint Francis |
9. | Le Moyne |
Guards Nico Galette and Joey Reilly were selected as members of the NEC Preseason All-Conference Team.[3]
The Pioneers finished the 2022–23 season 16–17, 8–8 in NEC play, to finish tied for fifth place.[4] They defeated Wagner in the quarterfinals of the NEC tournament,[5] before falling to top-seeded Merrimack in the semifinals.[6]
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