The Cardinals went 14-17 last season and have been picked to finish fourth in the MAC preseason poll. The 2021-22 season included a 28-6 record, a 71-57 non-conference win over Northern Iowa and a trip to the NCAA Tournament where the Catamounts fell by four to an Arkansas team in the NCAA Tournament that wound up in the Elite Eight. Last season, he averaged 7.2 points, 3.3 rebounds and two assists per game. Sullivan is a fifth-year player who first attended San Diego. He was the ASUN Tournament MVP and averaged 16.6 points, five assists and 4.2 rebounds per game. Penn is a transfer from Bellarmine who helped his team win the ASUN Championship in 2022. They have a pair of first-team all-conference preseason selections in Dylan Penn and Finn Sullivan. The Catamounts are the preseason favorites in the America East Coaches' Poll for the sixth time in the last seven seasons. 26, TBD in the Bahamas)ĭay 2 of the Bahamas-based tournament will put the Bears up against either Vermont or Ball State in the winner's or losers bracket. More: Get to know the new players on the Missouri State Lady Bears' roster entering 2022-23 vs. He was a CAA All-Defensive member last year while averaging 11.3 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. The Seahawks are picked to finish fifth this year in the Colonial Athletic Conference and will be led by senior guard Shykeim Phillips who was named a preseason second-teamer. It was the team that beat Middle Tennessee in the CBI championship in double overtime. To tip off the Baha Mar Nassau Championship, the Bears will play UNC Wilmington which is coming off a 27-9 season last year. 111 player in the country out of high school. He attended Link Year Prep in Branson and was the No. Heading into this year, Middle Tennessee is picked to finish fourth in Conference USA and has one preseason all-conference player in sophomore Teafale Lenard - who averaged 6.9 points and 3.3 rebounds last season while shooting 33.8% from beyond the arc and blocking 58 shots as a 6-foot-7 guard. Maybe the Bears' marquee home non-conference game, the Blue Raiders will take on the Bears after going 26-11 last season and finishing as the runner-up in the College Basketball Invitational. More: Missouri State's Donovan Clay as the MVC Player of the Year? Why the Bears think it can happen Middle Tennessee (Nov. The Cougars were picked to finish tied for third heading into the year behind Gonzaga and Saint Mary's. The team's overall top-returning scorer is 6-foot-6 sophomore forward Fousseyni Traore and he was the lone Cougar named to the Preseason All-WCC team. The Cougars' top two scorers from that game have since moved on. The Bears' schedule goes from zero to 100 with a tough road trip to BYU in the return game of a home-and-home that began last season with MSU losing 74-68 at Great Southern Bank Arena. The Miners return their top two scorers from last season Julien Smith and Kaden Froebe - who were both freshmen last BYU (Nov. This game will count, as the Rolla-based Division II program makes its way down here after going 11-17 last season. Jokes aside, this is another good opportunity for Missouri State's new roster to play together in a game situation before playing its toughest stretch of the non-conference slate. Nothing screams an "opening night" for the Bears quite like a showdown with Missouri S&T. More: Meet Missouri State men's basketball's 14 newcomers entering the 2022-23 season Missouri S&T (Nov. Getting an exhibition game on the books for the Bears before the season is a good thing considering the number of newcomers they have on the roster. Newman is a Division II school out of Wichita, Kansas, that went 6-21 last year and lost to teams including Missouri Southern, Central Missouri, Pittsburg State and Lincoln. It's the first time the Bears will play an exhibition game since the beginning of the 2019-20 season when they hosted Washington University. Some school called Newman will make its way over to Springfield to play the Bears in an exhibition game on Saturday. Here's a look at the Bears' non-conference schedule with the Bears' first exhibition game scheduled for Saturday: Newman (exhibition on Nov. BYU CougarsĪ new season for Missouri State men's basketball is just a few days away. View Gallery: College basketball: Missouri State Bears vs.
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