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2017–18 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers men's basketball team

2017–18 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers men's basketball
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Conference Conference USA
2017–18 record 0–0 (0–0 C-USA)
Head coach Rick Stansbury (2nd season)
Assistant coach Ben Hansbrough
Assistant coach Marc Hsu
Assistant coach Nikita Johnson
Home arena E. A. Diddle Arena
Seasons
← 2016–17
2018–19 →
2017–18 Conference USA men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Charlotte 0 0       0 0  
FIU 0 0       0 0  
Florida Atlantic 0 0       0 0  
Louisiana Tech 0 0       0 0  
Marshall 0 0       0 0  
Middle Tennessee 0 0       0 0  
North Texas 0 0       0 0  
Old Dominion 0 0       0 0  
Rice 0 0       0 0  
Southern Miss 0 0       0 0  
UAB 0 0       0 0  
UTEP 0 0       0 0  
UTSA 0 0       0 0  
Western Kentucky 0 0       0 0  
2018 C-USA Tournament winner

The 2017–18 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers men's basketball team will represent Western Kentucky University during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Hilltoppers will be led by head coach Rick Stansbury in his second season. They will play their home games at E. A. Diddle Arena in Bowling Green, Kentucky as fourth-year members of Conference USA.

The Hilltoppers finished the 2016–17 season with 15–17, 9–9 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for seventh place. They lost to UTSA in the first round of the C-USA Tournament.

Mitchell Robinson, a McDonald's All-American and a projected first round pick in the 2018 NBA Draft, committed to Western Kentucky a few weeks after the school hired his godfather, Shammond Williams. He signed a National Letter of Intent in November 2016 and enrolled at the school in July 2017. However, later in July, he left the school amid reports that he was unhappy at the school. Head coach Rick Stansbury and the school issued a statement that Robinson was suspended and would not be going on the team's trip to Costa Rica in August. However, asking to be released from his Letter of Intent and being released, he made visits to LSU, Kansas, and New Orleans. At the end of August, he returned to the school and enrolled and stated that he intends to play for Western Kentucky. On September 17, Robinson again left the university announcing he will prepare for the NBA and will not play college basketball.


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