Английская Википедия:2017–18 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders men's basketball team

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The 2017–18 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders men's basketball team represented Middle Tennessee State University during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Blue Raiders, led by 16th-year head coach Kermit Davis, played their home games at the Murphy Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee as members of Conference USA. They finished the season 25–8 overall, 16–2 in C-USA play to win the regular season championship. In the C-USA tournament, they were defeated in the quarterfinals by Southern Miss in overtime. As a regular season conference champion who failed to win their conference tournament, the Blue Raiders received an automatic bid to the National Invitation Tournament, where they defeated Vermont in the first round before losing to Louisville in the second round.

The season marked the first time in the program's history that the Blue Raiders were ranked in the AP Top 25 during the season, coming in at No. 24 on the week of February 19.

Head coach Kermit Davis left the school on March 19, 2018 to accept the head coaching job at Ole Miss. He finished at Middle Tennessee with a 16-year record of 332–188. On March 24, the Blue Raiders named UNC Asheville head coach Nick McDevitt as the team's new head coach.

Previous season

The Blue Raiders finished the 2016–17 season 27–4, 17–1 in C-USA play to win the regular season championship. In the C-USA tournament, they defeated UTSA, UTEP, and Marshall to win the 2017 C-USA Tournament. As a result, they received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. As the No. 12 seed in the South region, they defeated 5-seeded Minnesota in the first round before losing in the second round to 4-seeded Butler. The team also had several winning streaks during the season winning 8 games in a row in non-conference schedule, 10 games in a row to start conference play and a new school record, then 11 games in a row from mid-conference play all the way through winning the conference tournament and into the NCAA tournament before losing to Butler. The team finished the season with a 31–5, 17–1 record setting new school and conference records for wins in a season and in conference play and had another NCAA tournament upset for the second straight year.

Offseason

Departures

Name	Number	Pos.	Height	Weight	Year	Hometown	Notes
Xavier Habersham	4	F	6'6"	208	RS Senior	Dublin, GA	Graduated
JaCorey Williams	22	F	6'8"	220	RS Senior	Birmingham, AL	Graduated
Quavius Copeland	24	G	6'1"	178	Junior	Greenville, SC	Transferred to North Carolina A&T
Reggie Upshaw Jr.	30	F	6'8"	228	Senior	Chattanooga, TN	Graduated
Stephen Strachan	31	G	6'2"	200	RS Junior	Nassau, Bahamas	Walk-on; left the team due to personal reasons
Aldonis Foote	45	G/F	6'5"	213	Senior	Peoria, IL	Graduated

Incoming transfers

Name	Number	Pos.	Height	Weight	Year	Hometown	Previous School
James Hawthorne	4	F	6'7"	205	Junior	Prentiss, MS	Junior college transferred from Southwest Mississippi Community College.
David Simmons	21	G	6'3"	209	Junior	Henderson, KY	Junior college transferred from Tallahassee Community College.
Antonio Green		G	6'2"	165	Junior	Tupelo, MS	Transferred from Texas–Rio Grande Valley. Under NCAA transfer rules, Green will have to sit out in the 2017–18 season. Will have two years of eligibility left.

Schedule and results

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