The 2022–23 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers men's basketball team represented Coastal Carolina University in the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Chanticleers, led by 16th-year head coach Cliff Ellis, played their home games at the HTC Center in Conway, South Carolina as members of the Sun Belt Conference.
Previous season The Chanticleers finished the 2021–22 season 19–14, 8–8 in Sun Belt Play to finish in 7th place. They lost in the first round of the Sun Belt tournament to Georgia Southern. They received an invitation to the new The Basketball Classic where they defeated Maryland Eastern Shore, Florida Gulf Coast, and South Alabama to advance to the championship game where they lost to Fresno State.
Offseason Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure Garrick Green 2 G 6'6" 215 Senior Baton Rouge, LA Graduated Rudi Williams 3 G 6'2" 190 Senior Hamilton, ON Graduate transferred to BYU Kevin Williamson 4 G 6'5" 200 Senior Aiken, SC Transferred Deshawn Thomas 5 C 6'10" 250 Senior Columbia, SC Graduate transferred to USC Aiken Ebrima Dibba 10 G 6'6" 205 RS Junior Bredäng, Skarholmen Graduate transferred to South Carolina Jourdan Smith 11 F 6'11" 225 Junior Montgomery, AL Transferred to Grambling State Isaac Hippolyte 15 F 6'7" 215 Senior Spring Valley, NY Graduate transferred to Chowan Ahmard Harvey 20 F 6'7" 195 Junior Freeport, Bahamas Transferred to High Point Jalen Milner 21 G 6'1" 190 Junior Milledgeville, GA Walk-on; transferred Vince Cole 24 G 6'6" 190 Senior Charleston, SC Graduated/2022 NBA draft
Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous School Kylan Blackmon 0 G 6'3" 195 Sophomore Oxford, MS NE Mississippi CC Seth Dawson 1 G 6'5" 205 RS Junior Antioch, CA College of the Sequoias DJ Basey 2 C 6'10" 220 Senior Mesquite, TX Connors State Antonio Daye Jr. 5 G 6'3" 200 GS Senior Durham, NC Fordham Jomaru Brown 11 G 6'2" 186 Senior Raleigh, NC Eastern Kentucky Henry Abraham 13 G 6'0" 175 Junior Cambridge, MN Eastern Illinois Jaland Whitehead 21 F 6'9" 215 Senior Grand Rapids, MI Johnson County CC Linton Brown 22 G 6'5" 210 Senior Delray Beach, FL St. Bonaventure Joey Kahl 33 G 6'4" 175 Sophomore Mobile, AL Walk-on; Delta State Jimmy Nichols Jr. 55 F 6'8" 225 RS Senior Conway, SC VCU
Recruiting There were no incoming recruits for the class of 2022.
Preseason
Preseason Sun Belt Conference poll The Chanticleers were picked to finish in eighth place in the conference's preseason poll. Junior center Essam Mostafa was named preseason All-SBC Second Team.
Coaches poll 1 Louisiana - 190 (10) 2 Texas State - 162 (1) 3 South Alabama - 150 (1) 4 James Madison - 149 (1) 5 Georgia State - 127 (1) 6 Marshall - 122 7 App State - 120 8 Coastal Carolina - 100 9 Old Dominion - 93 10 Troy - 76 11 Georgia Southern - 69 12 Arkansas State - 48 13 Southern Miss - 34 14 ULM - 30
Roster
Schedule and results
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