Mode: | Basketball |
Sex: | none |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Prev Year: | 2022–23 |
Next Year: | 2024–25 |
Team: | Southern Miss Lady Eagles |
Conference: | Sun Belt Conference |
Short Conf: | Sun Belt |
Record: | 20–14 |
Conf Record: | 10–8 |
Head Coach: | Joye Lee-McNelis |
Hc Year: | 20th |
Asst Coach1: | Jack Trosper |
Asst Coach2: | Jessica Barber |
Tourney Result: | Super 16 |
The 2023–24 Southern Miss Lady Eagles basketball team represented the University of Southern Mississippi during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The team was led by 20th-year head coach Joye Lee-McNelis, and played their home games at the Reed Green Coliseum in Hattiesburg, Mississippi as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. They finished the season 20–14, 10–8 in Sun Belt play, to finish in a three-way tie for fifth place.
The Lady Eagles finished as co-conference champions for the 2022–23 basketball season with an overall record of 21–10 and 13–5 in Sun Belt play to finish in a three-way tie for first place. They lost in the conference tournament to Texas State 85–57[1] and were unable to secure a bid into the NCAA tournament.
Despite her recurring battle with lung cancer, head coach Joye Lee-McNelis stated that she would be back to coach the 2023–24 season.[2]
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