The 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 7, 2022. The regular season ended on March 12, 2023, with the
2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament beginning with the
First Four on March 14 and ending with the
championship game at
NRG Stadium in
Houston
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on April 3.
Rule changes
The following rule changes were recommended by the NCAA Basketball Rules Committee to the Playing Rules Oversight Panel for the 2022−23 season:
*
Flopping will now result in a Class B technical foul. Previously players called for flopping received a warning before a technical foul was assessed.
* Conferences (and the NIT) will continue to allow (on an experimental basis) the use of live and prerecorded video streams at the team bench.
* Conferences (and the NIT) who choose to use five
electronic-media timeouts in the second half of their games will be able to experiment with a new format for granting those timeouts. Currently, for a game using five electronic-media timeouts in the second half, the rulebook prescribes that four of those occur in the same manner as in the first half—that is, at the first dead ball at or after the 16-, 12-, 8-, and 4-minute marks, or up to 30 seconds prior to those marks in specific circumstances. The fifth electronic-media timeout occurs when the first timeout requested by either team in the second half automatically becomes an electronic-media timeout.
Competitions choosing to use this experimental rule will continue to have five electronic-media timeouts in the second half, but those will occur instead at or after the 17-, 14-, 11-, 8-, and 4-minute marks (or up to 30 seconds prior to those marks in specific circumstances), while the first team-requested timeout will no longer automatically become a media timeout.
Season headlines
* April 20, 2022
**
Oscar Tshiebwe, the consensus national player of the year in 2021–22, announced he would return to
Kentucky
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for his senior season. He became the first men's national player of the year to announce a return to college since 2008 player of the year
Tyler Hansbrough at
North Carolina
North Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia (U.S. stat ...
.
**
Jay Wright retired as head coach at
Villanova after 21 seasons, ending a tenure that saw the Wildcats make four Final Four appearances, including national titles in
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
and
2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
, and included Wright's 2021 induction to the
Basketball Hall of Fame.
* June 20 – Darius Lee, who led
Houston Baptist (now Houston Christian) in scoring and rebounding last season, was killed in a mass shooting at a gathering in
Harlem
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. Lee, a native of the New York City neighborhood, was the only fatality among the nine victims. On October 25, Lee was posthumously named Southland Conference preseason player of the year by a unanimous vote of the conference's coaches.
* June 21 –
Hartford
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, which started a transition from Division I to
Division III in the 2021–22 school year, was announced as a new member of the D-III Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC; now known as the
Conference of New England) effective in 2023–24. The CCC press release also confirmed previous reports that Hartford would leave the
America East Conference
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after the 2021–22 season; the Hawks would play the 2022–23 season as a
D-I independent.
* June 24 –
Incarnate Word, which had announced a move from the
Southland Conference
The Southland Conference (SLC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in ...
(SLC) to the
Western Athletic Conference
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Due to ...
(WAC), backed out of this move and elected to remain in the SLC.
* June 30 – The
Big Ten Conference
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announced that
UCLA
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and
USC USC may refer to:
Education
United States
* Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, Santurce, Puerto Rico
* University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
** University of South Carolina System, a state university system of South Carolina
* ...
would join from the
Pac-12 Conference
The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the Western United States. It participates at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I level for all sports, and its Co ...
in 2024, immediately after the then-current Pac-12 media contracts expired.
* July 11 – The SLC and
Lamar jointly announced that Lamar, which had previously planned to leave the WAC in 2023 to return to the SLC, would expedite this move for the 2022–23 school year.
* July 15 – The WAC announced that starting with the 2023 editions, its men's and women's tournaments would be seeded via a set of advanced metrics that it calls the WAC Résumé Seeding System, developed by statistics guru
Ken Pomeroy alongside WAC officials. Tournament entry continues to be based on conference record.
* August 3 – The
Colonial Athletic Association announced that
Campbell would join from the
Big South Conference
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in 2023.
* August 12
** The NCAA, which had previously announced that the
NIT semifinals and final would not be held at the traditional
New York City
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site for at least 2023 and 2024, announced the sites for those years. The 2023 final rounds would be at
Orleans Arena
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in
Las Vegas
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, and the 2024 final rounds at
Hinkle Fieldhouse in
Indianapolis
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. All games before the semifinals continue to use campus sites.
** The
Indiana University
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and
Purdue University
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systems announced that
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis would be dissolved in 2024 and replaced by separate IU- and Purdue-affiliated institutions. The current athletic program, the
IUPUI Jaguars, would transfer to the new
IU Indianapolis.
* August 31 – The Division I Board of Directors adopted a series of changes to transfer rules.
** Transfer windows were adopted for all Division I sports. Student-athletes who wish to be immediately eligible at their next school must enter the
NCAA transfer portal within the designated period(s) for their sport. For men's basketball, the window opens on the day after
Selection Sunday and runs for 60 days.
** Student-athletes who experience head coaching changes, or those whose athletic aid is reduced, canceled, or not renewed, may transfer outside designated windows without penalty.
** Transferring student-athletes will be guaranteed financial aid at their next school through graduation.
* September 21 – Houston Baptist University announced it had changed its name to
Houston Christian University
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, effective immediately. The athletic nickname of the
Huskies was not affected.
* October 14 –
Conference USA announced that
ASUN Conference member
Kennesaw State would join C-USA in 2024.
* October 24 – The AP released its preseason All-America team. Reigning national player of the year Oscar Tshiebwe and
Gonzaga's
Drew Timme were unanimous choices, joined by
Armando Bacot of
North Carolina
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,
Marcus Sasser of
Houston
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, and
Trayce Jackson-Davis of
Indiana
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.
* November 2 – ESPN reported that
Gonzaga athletic director Chris Standiford and
Big 12 Conference
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commissioner Brett Yormark had met the previous week in the
Dallas area regarding a possible Gonzaga move to that conference as a full but non-football member. The report also indicated that Gonzaga had at least some level of talks with the
Big East Conference
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and Pac-12 Conference in the preceding months.
* November 14 –
Albany head coach
Dwayne Killings, athletic director Mark Benson, and
the university were sued by former Great Danes walk-on Luke Fizulich, who claimed that Killings had physically assaulted him before a game in the 2021–22 season, and had also interfered with his continued enrollment at Albany and hindered his chances of transferring to another school. The suit claimed that the university had decided to fire Killings after the incident, but changed the punishment to a five-game suspension under pressure from local business and civil rights leaders, and charged the university with showing preference to the African-American Killings due to his race.
* November 17 – During a meeting in
San Francisco
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, the
Regents of the University of California
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, the governing board of the
University of California
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system, set a date of December 14 for a special meeting to make a final determination on UCLA's planned move to the Big Ten.
* December 14 – The UC Regents approved UCLA's move to the Big Ten. Additionally, conditions were made to mitigate athletes such as investing $12 million in beneficial services including nutritional support and charter flights to reduce travel time. UCLA must also pay the
University of California, Berkeley
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an additional $2 to $10 million due to the move affecting
the latter's athletic program, with the precise total being made once the Pac-12 completes its upcoming media rights deal.
* January 15 –
Alabama
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junior reserve forward Darius Miles was one of two men arrested and charged with
capital murder in connection with a shooting early that morning near the
Alabama
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campus in
Tuscaloosa in which a woman was killed.
* February 9 – The
Big 12 Conference
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announced that it had reached an agreement with
Oklahoma
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and
Texas
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that allowed the two schools to leave for the
Southeastern Conference
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in 2024 instead of the originally announced 2025 schedule. Approval by the two schools' governing boards was seen as a formality.
* March 20 –
St. Francis Brooklyn announced that it would terminate its athletic program after the spring 2023 semester.
* May 10 –
Le Moyne announced it would reclassify to Division I from
Division II and join the
Northeast Conference
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effective July 1, 2023.
* May 12 –
Western Illinois announced it would leave the
Summit League for the
Ohio Valley Conference
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effective July 1, 2023.
Milestones and records
* During the season, the following players reached the 2,000 career point milestone –
Virginia
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forward
Jayden Gardner,
Marshall guard
Taevion Kinsey,
Liberty
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guard
Darius McGhee,
Xavier guard
Souley Boum,
Oral Roberts
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guard
Max Abmas,
Coppin State guard
Sam Sessoms,
Texas
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guard
Marcus Carr,
Arizona State guard
Desmond Cambridge,
Tennessee State guard
Jr. Clay,
San Diego State guard
Matt Bradley,
Gonzaga forward
Drew Timme,
Memphis guard
Kendric Davis,
LSU
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as Louisiana State University (LSU), is an American Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louis ...
forward
KJ Williams,
Purdue Fort Wayne guard
Jarred Godfrey,
Indiana
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forward
Trayce Jackson-Davis,
Wyoming
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swingman
Hunter Maldonado,
Texas Tech forward
Kevin Obanor,
Wake Forest guard
Tyree Appleby,
Fordham guard
Darius Quisenberry,
Penn State guard
Jalen Pickett,
DePaul guard
Umoja Gibson, Texas forward
Timmy Allen,
NC State guard
Jarkel Joiner,
Loyola Marymount
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guard
Cameron Shelton, and
Furman guard
Mike Bothwell.
* November 26 –
California
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lost 67–59 to
Clemson to start the season 0–7, becoming the first major-conference team in the last 40 years to start a season with that record.
The Golden Bears fell to 0–12 before defeating
UT Arlington 73–51 on December 21.
* November 28 – #18
Alabama
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defeated #1
North Carolina
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in 4 overtimes, 103–101.
It was the second 4-overtime game in UNC history (
Tulane,
1976
Events January
* January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
) and the first time Alabama beat a top-ranked opponent since 2004 (
Stanford).
[
* November 29 – ]Louisville
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became the second major-conference team in recent history to have started a season 0–7, losing 79–54 to Maryland
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.[ The Cardinals would slump to 0–9 before defeating Western Kentucky 94–83 on December 14. The Cardinals' start was the worst for any team in ACC history.
* November 30 – Yuri Collins of Saint Louis recorded 20 assists in a win over Tennessee State, setting a school record and tying for the fourth most in a single game in Division I history.
* December 1 – Antoine Davis of Detroit Mercy became the all-time leading scorer in the ]Horizon League
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, surpassing Alfredrick Hughes' previous record in UDM's 75–66 win over Purdue Fort Wayne.
* December 10 – Antoine Davis became the 11th NCAA Division I men's player with 3,000 career points, scoring 36 in an 82–80 loss to Charlotte to bring his total to 3,001.
* December 21 – Eastern Illinois defeated Iowa
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92–83 on the road as a 31.5-point underdog according to Las Vegas sports books. This was the largest point-spread upset in D-I men's basketball in at least the previous 30 years.
* January 7 – Virginia
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defeated Syracuse, giving head coach Tony Bennett
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his 327th win at the school, breaking a school record previously held by Terry Holland. In the same game, Virginia forward Jayden Gardner grabbed his 1,000th rebound, putting him on a short list of Division I players with both 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds.[
* January 14
** Antoine Davis hit 11 three-pointers in UDM's 87–75 win over Robert Morris to give him 513 career threes, surpassing the previous D-I record of 509 by Wofford's Fletcher Magee.
** Eleven teams ranked in the AP poll lost, tying the record for most such losses on a single day previously set on January 29, ]2011
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.
* January 21 – Arizona
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head coach Tommy Lloyd became the fastest Pac-12 Conference
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coach to win 50 games, doing so in 57 games, with a 58–52 win over rival UCLA
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...
.
* February 2 – With a 68–59 win over San Francisco
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, Saint Mary's Gaels
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head coach Randy Bennett earned his 500th win as head coach, all of them with the Gaels. He became the 25th coach to notch 500 wins at a sole school.
* February 4 – McGhee became Liberty's career scoring leader in the Flames' 69–64 loss to Lipscomb. The previous record was held by Karl Hess, who played for the Flames from 1976 to 1980 when the school was an NAIA member.
* February 11 – Northwestern defeated Purdue 64–58, earning its first-ever victory over an AP Poll #1-ranked team.
* February 12 – Godfrey became Purdue Fort Wayne's career scoring leader in the Mastodons' 71–64 loss to Robert Morris, surpassing John Konchar, whose college career from 2015 to 2019 started at PFW's athletic predecessor of IPFW.
* February 16 – Kendric Davis became the American Athletic Conference
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's all-time men's scoring leader in Memphis' 64–63 win over UCF. Davis, who began his college career at Big 12 member TCU before playing three seasons at American member SMU and then moving to Memphis for his final season of eligibility, broke the record of Temple's Quinton Rose.
* February 22 – McGhee became the men's career scoring leader for the ASUN Conference in Liberty's 85–77 win over Queens
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, surpassing Centenary's Willie Jackson. McGhee also became the fourth Division I men's player, and fifth D-I player overall, with 500 career threes.
* February 25 – Florida State completed the largest come-from-behind win in ACC history (25 points), defeating #13 Miami
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85–84 on a buzzer-beating three-pointer by FSU's Matthew Cleveland.
* March 4 – Marshall's Taevion Kinsey passed Jon Elmore (2,638 points from 2015 to 2019) as the Thundering Herd's all-time leading scorer during their 71–68 loss to Texas State in the Sun Belt Conference tournament.
* March 7 – Gonzaga's Drew Timme passed Frank Burgess (2,196 points) as Gonzaga's all-time leading scorer during the Bulldogs' 77–51 win over Saint Mary's during the West Coast Conference tournament championship. Burgess's record had stood since 1961.[
* March 9 – Arizona head basketball coach Tommy Lloyd won his 59th game as coach, the most wins of any coach in Division I history in their first two seasons of coaching. Arizona defeated Arizona State 95–84.
]
Conference membership changes
Twenty-six schools joined new conferences or became independents, including five schools from Division II which started transitions to Division I this season and one in the process of transition from Division I to Division III.
As noted previously, Incarnate Word had announced plans to move from the Southland Conference
The Southland Conference (SLC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in ...
to the Western Athletic Conference
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Due to ...
, but backed out of that move and remained in the Southland. Lamar, which initially planned to make the opposite move in 2023, pushed this move forward to 2022.
The 2022−23 season was the last for at least 16 Division I schools in their current conferences, and the final season for a single Division II school before reclassifying to Division I. It was also Hartford's only season as a D-I independent, and the last season of athletics for St. Francis Brooklyn.
Arenas
New arenas
* Alabama A&M opened the new Alabama A&M Events Center on November 18, losing its first game in the new facility 80–76 to Louisiana Tech on November 23.
* Fairfield's former home of Alumni Hall was replaced on-site by the new Leo D. Mahoney Arena. The Stags' first game in the new facility was a 67–55 win over Saint Peter's on December 3.
* Georgia State left GSU Sports Arena for the new Georgia State Convocation Center. The opening ceremony for the new arena was on September 15, with the first event taking place the following day. The Panthers' first official game was a 76–59 win over NAIA member Coastal Georgia on November 7.
*Texas
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moved from the Frank Erwin Center to the Moody Center. The Longhorns' first official game was a 72–57 win over UTEP on November 7.
Arenas of new D-I teams
All five new D-I members in 2022–23 play on their respective campuses.
* Lindenwood plays at Robert F. Hyland Performance Arena.
* Queens
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plays at Curry Arena.
* Southern Indiana
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plays at Screaming Eagles Arena.
* Stonehill plays at Merkert Gymnasium.
* Texas A&M–Commerce plays at the Texas A&M–Commerce Field House.
Arenas closing
The following D-I programs plan to open new arenas for the 2023−24 season. or will move to a different pre-existing venue. All will move within their current campuses otherwise indicated.
* Austin Peay will leave the on-campus Winfield Dunn Center for the new F&M Bank Arena in downtown Clarksville, Tennessee, after 49 seasons. The new arena was originally planned to open for the 2022–23 season, but was delayed to 2023–24.
* Baylor will leave the Ferrell Center for the new Foster Pavilion; the venue is scheduled to open in the fall of 2023 or early 2024.
* Georgia Southern will leave the Hanner Fieldhouse for the new Jack and Ruth Ann Hill Convocation Center. The venue was scheduled to open in the early fall of 2023, but was delayed until 2024–25 season.
* Longwood will leave Willett Hall for the new Joan Perry Brock Center; the venue is scheduled to open in Summer 2023.
* St. Francis Brooklyn in 2022, began closing its Remsen Street campus, including Generoso Pope Athletic Complex, as part of the college's move to a new campus on Livingston Street. After the closure, home games were played about 2 miles (3 km) away at Pratt Institute, as the Livingston Street campus has no basketball venue. The final men's basketball game played at Pope Athletic Complex was a 61–58 win over Saint Peter's on November 19.
* Vermont
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was originally slated to open the new Tarrant Event Center, the replacement for Patrick Gym, in 2021. However, the new arena has since been placed on indefinite hold. Construction was initially halted by COVID-19. With the Tarrant Center being part of a much larger upgrade of UVM's athletic and recreation facilities, UVM chose to prioritize a new student recreation center. Construction of the Tarrant Center is now being hampered by increased borrowing costs.
Season outlook
The Top 25 from the AP and USA Today Coaching Polls
Pre-season polls
Final polls
Top 10 matchups
Rankings reflect the AP poll Top 25.
Regular season
*Nov. 15
** No. 6 Kansas
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defeated No. 7 Duke
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, 69–64 ( Champions Classic – Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN)
*Nov. 20
** No. 2 Gonzaga defeated No. 4 Kentucky
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, 88–72 ( Spokane Arena, Spokane, WA)
** No. 5 Baylor defeated No. 8 UCLA
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, 80–75 ( Continental Tire Main Event – T-Mobile Arena
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, Paradise, NV)
*Nov. 22
**No. 10 Creighton defeated No. 9 Arkansas
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, 90–87 ( Maui Invitational – Lahaina Civic Center, Lahaina, HI)
*Dec. 1
**No. 2 Texas
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defeated No. 7 Creighton, 72–67 ( Big East–Big 12 Battle – Moody Center, Austin, TX
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)
*Dec. 10
**No. 8 Alabama
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defeated No. 1 Houston
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, 71–65 ( Fertitta Center, Houston, TX)
*Dec. 17
**No. 5 Houston defeated No. 2 Virginia
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, 69–61 ( John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA)
**No. 9 Arizona
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defeated No. 6 Tennessee
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, 75–70 ( McKale Center, Tucson, AZ
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)
*Jan. 28
**No. 4 Tennessee defeated No. 10 Texas, 82–71 ( Big 12/SEC Challenge – Thompson–Boling Arena, Knoxville, TN)
*Jan. 31
**No. 8 Kansas defeated No. 7 Kansas State, 90–78 ( Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, KS)
*Feb. 4
**No. 10 Texas defeated No. 7 Kansas State, 69–66 ( Bramlage Coliseum, Manhattan, KS)
*Feb. 6
**No. 9 Kansas defeated No. 5 Texas, 88–80 (Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, KS)
*Feb. 15
**No. 10 Tennessee defeated No. 1 Alabama, 68–59 (Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, TN)
*Feb. 18
**No. 5 Kansas defeated No. 9 Baylor, 87–71 (Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, KS)
*Feb. 25
**No. 9 Baylor defeated No. 8 Texas, 81–72 ( Ferrell Center, Waco, TX)
*Mar. 4
**No. 9 Texas defeated No. 3 Kansas, 75–59 (Moody Center, Austin, TX)
**No. 4 UCLA defeated No. 8 Arizona, 82–73 ( Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA)
*Mar. 11
**No. 7 Texas defeated No. 3 Kansas, 76–56 ( 2023 Big 12 men's basketball tournament – T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, MO)
**No. 8 Arizona defeated No. 2 UCLA, 61–59 ( 2023 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament – T-Mobile Center, Paradise, NV)
Postseason
Regular season
Early season tournaments
Upsets
An upset is a victory by an underdog team. In the context of NCAA Division I men's basketball, this generally constitutes an unranked team defeating a team currently ranked in the top 25. This list will highlight those upsets of ranked teams by unranked teams as well as upsets of No. 1 teams. Rankings are from the AP poll. Bold type indicates winning teams in "true road games"—i.e., those played on an opponent's home court (including secondary homes). ''Italics'' type indicates winning teams in an early season tournament (or event). Early season tournaments are tournaments played in the early season. Events are the tournaments with the same teams in it every year (even rivalry games).
In addition to the above listed upsets in which an unranked team defeated a ranked team, there have been eight non-Division I teams to defeat a Division I team so far this season. Bold type indicates winning teams in "true road games"—i.e., those played on an opponent's home court (including secondary homes).
Conference winners and tournaments
Each of the 32 Division I athletic conference
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s ended its regular season
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with a single-elimination tournament
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. The team with the best regular-season record in each conference received the number one seed in each tournament, with tiebreakers used as needed in the case of ties for the top seeding. Unless otherwise noted, the winners of these tournaments received automatic invitations to the 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Statistical leaders
Source for additional stats categories
Postseason tournaments
The NCAA tournament tipped off on March 14, 2023, with the First Four in Dayton, Ohio
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, and concluded on April 3 at NRG Stadium in Houston
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. A total of 68 teams entered the tournament. Thirty-two of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference
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tournaments. The remaining 36 teams were granted "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.
Final Four – NRG Stadium in Houston, TX
Tournament upsets
Per the NCAA, an upset occurs "when the losing team in an NCAA tournament game was seeded at least two seed lines better than the winning team." The 2023 tournament saw a total of 13 upsets, with five in the first round, four in the second round, three in the Sweet Sixteen, one in the Elite Eight, and zero in the Final Four.
National Invitation tournament
After the NCAA tournament field was announced, the National Invitation Tournament
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invited 32 teams to participate, reducing the field's size from 40. Eight teams were given automatic bids for winning their conference regular seasons, and 24 other teams were also invited.
Semifinals and finals
* Denotes overtime period
College Basketball Invitational
After the NCAA tournament field was announced, the College Basketball Invitational invited 16 teams to participate.
Semifinals and finals
* Denotes overtime period
Conference standings
Award winners
2023 consensus All-Americans
Major player of the year awards
* Wooden Award: Zach Edey, Purdue
* Naismith Award: Zach Edey, Purdue
* Associated Press Player of the Year: Zach Edey, Purdue
* NABC Player of the Year: Zach Edey, Purdue
* Oscar Robertson Trophy ( USBWA): Zach Edey, Purdue
* ''Sporting News'' Player of the Year: Zach Edey, Purdue
Major freshman of the year awards
* Wayman Tisdale Award ( USBWA): Brandon Miller, Alabama
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* NABC Freshman of the Year: Brandon Miller, Alabama[
]
Major coach of the year awards
* Associated Press Coach of the Year: Shaka Smart, Marquette
* Henry Iba Award ( USBWA): Shaka Smart, Marquette
* NABC Coach of the Year: Shaka Smart, Marquette[
* Naismith College Coach of the Year: Jerome Tang, Kansas State][
* ''Sporting News'' Coach of the Year: Rodney Terry, ]Texas
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Other major awards
* Naismith Starting Five:
** Bob Cousy Award (best point guard): Markquis Nowell, Kansas State
** Jerry West Award (best shooting guard): Marcus Sasser, Houston
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** Julius Erving Award (best small forward): Jalen Wilson, Kansas
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** Karl Malone Award (best power forward): Trayce Jackson-Davis, Indiana
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** Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award (best center): Zach Edey, Purdue
* Pete Newell Big Man Award (best big man): Zach Edey, Purdue[
* NABC Defensive Player of the Year: Jaylen Clark, ]UCLA
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[
* Naismith Defensive Player of the Year: Jaylen Clark, UCLA][
* Lute Olson Award: Jaime Jaquez Jr., UCLA
* Robert V. Geasey Trophy (top player in Philadelphia Big 5): Jordan Dingle, Penn
*]Haggerty Award
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(top player in NYC metro area): Aaron Estrada, Hofstra
* Ben Jobe Award (top minority coach): Jerry Stackhouse, Vanderbilt
* Hugh Durham Award (top mid-major coach): Amir Abdur-Rahim, Kennesaw State
* Jim Phelan Award (top head coach): Chris Collins, Northwestern
* Lefty Driesell Award (top defensive player): Caleb McConnell, Rutgers
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* Lou Henson Award (top mid-major player): Jordan Brown, Louisiana
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* Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award (coach with moral character): Pat Skerry, Towson
* Academic All-American of the Year (top scholar-athlete): Ben Vander Plas, Virginia
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* Elite 90 Award (top GPA among upperclass players at Final Four): Filippos Gkogkos, Miami
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* Perry Wallace Most Courageous Award: Terrence Hargrove, Saint Louis & Connor Odom, Utah State
Coaching changes
Many teams will change coaches during the season and after it ends. Two teams changed coaches shortly before their first regular-season games. This is restricted to coaching changes prior to the start of practice for the next season; for changes after that date, see the 2023–24 season page.
See also
* 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
References
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