HODGSON ERA BEGINS: MEN'S BASKETBALL
In the first season under head coach Bryan Hodgson, the men’s basketball team finished 20-17 overall, 11-7 in the Sun Belt Conference.
A-State ended the year as one of the hottest teams in the country, winning 12 of the final 16 contests. The Red Wolves were just one of two programs under a first-year head coach with 20 or more Division I wins in 2023-24.
The men’s team was one of five just Division-I programs under a coach in his first year at a school to go from 20-plus losses in 2022-23 to 20-plus victories in 2023-24. Hodgson’s team won 20-plus games against Division-I opponents for the first time since 1990-91 and just the fourth time ever in school history.
The Red Wolves won seven games against teams finishing inside the top-4 of their respective conferences, including three teams which made postseason tournaments
The squad advanced to the postseason for the first time since 1999, finishing in the semifinals of the Ro College Basketball Invitational. The Red Wolves picked up a first-round win over Bethune-Cookman to earn their first postseason tournament victory since 1991.
They finished 4th in the Sun Belt Conference standings and reached the championship game of the conference tournament for the first time since 2007, after being picked to finish ninth in the preseason.
Hodgson’s team earned the program’s highest home attendance total (37,746) and average (2,904) since 2016-17.
The Red Wolves played their first nationally-televised home game since 1997 - one of five total games this season in front of a national TV audience.
They shattered school records in scoring (2,917 points), field goals made (1,021) and attempted (2,313), 3-pointers made (341) and attempted (991), rebounding (1,419) and offensive rebounds (489).