The 2022–23 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Louisiana at Monroe in the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Warhawks, led by 13th-year head coach Keith Richard, played their home games at Fant–Ewing Coliseum in Monroe, Louisiana as members of the Sun Belt Conference.

Previous season The Warhawks finished the 2021–22 season 13–18, 5–13 in Sun Belt play to finish in 11th place in the Sun Belt Conference. They lost to Arkansas State in the first round of the Sun Belt tournament.

Offseason Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure Trey Boston 0 G 6'2' 165 Sophomore Chicago, IL Left Team for personal reasons Andre Jones 1 G 6'5" 191 GS Senior Little Rock, AR Graduated Koreem Ozier 2 G 6'1" 190 Junior Racine, WI Graduated Elijah Gonzales 3 G 5'11" 170 Junior Clackamas, OR Graduated Reginald Gee 5 G 6'2" 230 GS Senior Houston, TX Graduated D'Marcus Hall 14 G/F 6'5" 210 Freshman Haughton, LA Transferred to Bossier Parish Community College Luke Phillips 21 F 6'10" 220 RS Sophomore Adelaide, Australia Signed to play semi-professionally in Australia with Cockburn Cougars Russell Harrison 24 G/F 6'4" 200 Senior Lubbock, TX Graduate transferred to Lubbock Christian University

Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous School Jamari Blackmon 0 G 6'1" 205 Senior Hoover, AL North Alabama Savion Gallion 1 G 6'4" 182 Sophomore Washington, D.C. South Plains College Devon Hancock 2 G 6'3" 190 RS Sophomore Dallas, TX Milwaukee Tyreke Locure 11 G 6'0" 165 Junior New Orleans, LA UAB Victor Bafutto 14 C 6'10" 230 GS Senior Brasília, Brazil Mercer AD Diedhiou 34 F 6'10" 240 Junior Dakar, Senegal UAB

Recruiting classes

2022 recruiting class

2023 recruiting class

Preseason

Preseason Sun Belt Conference poll The Warhawks were picked to finish in last place in the conference's preseason poll. Junior forward Nika Metskhavarishvili was named preseason All-SBC Third 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

!colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season

!colspan=9 style=| Sun Belt regular season

!colspan=9 style=|Sun Belt tournament

Source

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