Sport: | basketball |
Sex: | none |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Team: | Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks |
Conference: | Western Athletic Conference |
Short Conf: | WAC |
Record: | 22–12 |
Conf Record: | 14–6 |
Head Coach: | Leonard Bishop |
Hc Year: | 1st |
Assoc Coach: | Patrick Harrison |
Asst Coach1: | Jordynn Hernandez |
Asst Coach2: | Lexi Murphy |
Arena: | William R. Johnson Coliseum |
The 2023–24 Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks basketball team represented Stephen F. Austin State University during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Ladyjacks, who were led by first-year head coach Leonard Bishop, played their home games at the William R. Johnson Coliseum in Nacogdoches, Texas as members of the Western Athletic Conference.
This would be Stephen F. Austin's last season as members of the WAC, as on May 29, 2024, it was announced that they will be returning to the Southland Conference, which they left in 2021, with the move becoming official on July 1, 2024.[1]
The Ladyjacks finished the 2022–23 season 27–7, 15–3 in WAC play to finish in second place.[2] Due to the WAC's new Resume Seeding ranking, which is an advanced analytic developed by Ken Pomeroy that incorporated the performance of teams in both conference and non-conference games, received the #1 seed in the WAC tournament.[3] There, they defeated Sam Houston in the quarterfinals,[4] before falling to California Baptist in the semifinals.[5] They received an automatic bid into the WNIT,[6] where they would defeat Texas State in the first round,[7] before falling to Arkansas in the second round.[8]
On April 3, 2023, it was announced that head coach Mark Kellogg would be leaving the program after eight seasons, in order to take the head coaching position at West Virginia.[9] On April 18, the school announced that assosciate head coach Leonard Bishop would be named Kellogg's successor.[10]
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