The 2022–23 Southern Miss Golden Eagles basketball team represented the University of Southern Mississippi during the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was led by third-year head coach Jay Ladner, and played their home games at Reed Green Coliseum in Hattiesburg, Mississippi as first-year members of the Sun Belt Conference.

Previous season The Golden Eagles finished the 2021–22 season 7–26, (1–17 C-USA). They defeated UTSA in the first round of the C-USA tournament before losing to Florida Atlantic in the second round.

On October 28, 2021, Southern Miss announced that this would be the last season for the team in the Conference USA and they would become a member of the Sun Belt Conference on July 1, 2022.

Offseason Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure Walyn Napper 1 G 6'0" 182 Sophomore Columbia, SC Transferred to Longwood Blake Roberts 3 G 6'2" 187 Freshman Hattiesburg, MS Walk-on; left the team for personal reasons Rashad Bolden 4 G 6'0" 168 Freshman Jackson, MS Transferred to McNeese State Tae Hardy 10 G 6'3" 191 Junior Ellenwood, GA Transferred to UTEP Isaih Moore 11 F 6'10" 197 Junior Columbia, SC Transferred to Fresno State Tyler Stevenson 14 F 6'8" 215 Junior Columbus, MS Walk-on; transferred to Mississippi State Mark Jaakson 44 G 6'7" 216 Freshman Tallinn, Estonia Signed to play professionally in Estonia with KK Pärnu Jaron Pierre Jr. 55 G 6'5" 182 Freshman New Orleans, LA Transferred to Wichita State

Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous School Austin Crowley 1 G 6'5" 195 Junior West Point, MS Ole Miss Neftali Alvarez 2 G 6'2" 165 RS Junior Cataño, PR Mercer Cobie Montgomery 10 G 6'4" Junior Louisville, KY Triton College Victor Hart 11 F 6'8" 200 Junior Miami, FL FIU Nico Aguirre 12 G 6'0" 179 GS Senior Castro, Chile Southwest Baptist Donavan Moore 15 G 6'3" 180 Junior Hillsboro, IL Green Bay Gianfranco Grafals 21 G/F 6'5" 185 RS Junior Fleming Island, FL Walk-on; Eckerd College Felipe Haase 22 F 6'9" 253 GS Senior Osorno, Chile Mercer Marcelo Perez 25 F 6'5" 200 GS Senior Talca, Chile Barry

2022 recruiting class There were no incoming recruits for the class of 2022.

Preseason

Preseason Sun Belt Conference poll The Golden Eaglers were picked to finish in 13th place in the conference's preseason poll. Graduate forward Felipe Haase was named to the 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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!colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season

!colspan=12 style=| Sun Belt Conference regular season

!colspan=12 style=| Sun Belt tournament

!colspan=9 style=| NIT

Source

See also 2022–23 Southern Miss Lady Eagles basketball team

References