Cougars Close Out Home Schedule with Hartford Sunday
The Chicago State men's basketball team will wrap up the home portion of their 2022-23 schedule, hosting the University of Hartford on Sunday, February 19 at 2 p.m. at the Jones Convocation Center. The two teams will play the second of a home-and-home series, with the Cougars earning a 62-49 win in West Hartford, Connecticut on February 4 in the two team's only previous meeting. The matchup will be the season finale for the Hawks who enter the game with a 5-22 record.
A Cougars victory would wrap up a perfect 8-0 home record for the Cougars this season and would match the last eight-game home win streak which was established across two seasons, when the 2008-09 Cougars won five in a row to finish the season and the 2009-10 team won its first three for an eight-game home-win streak.
Cougars Undefeated at Home in 2022-23
Chicago State's men's basketball team earned their seventh consecutive home win with a 103-56 victory over Calumet College and it's the first seven-game home win streak since the 2008-09 team won five in a row to end the season and the 2009-10 team won their first three home games of that season.
Cougars Snap Road Losing Streak
With the 74-70 road win at Coastal Carolina the Chicago State's men's basketball team snapped a 21-game road losing streak which was 22 games if you add the neutral-court loss to Utah Valley in the first round of last year's WAC Tournament. The last true road win prior to Coastal Carolina was at Lamar on January 15, 2022 by a score of 67-56. Last season, head coach Gerald Gillion snapped an inherited 24-game road losing streak with a mid-December win at IUPUI. Under Gillion, CSU has won 17 games over the past two seasons, which is more than the previous five seasons combined (16 wins from 2016-21).
Independent Status
Chicago State and Hartford are the only two Division I programs playing an independent schedule during the  2022–23 season. CSU left the Western Athletic Conference following the 2021–22 season while Hartford began a transition to Division III in the 2021–22 school year, and left the America East Conference in July 2022. Hartford has announced it will join the D-III Commonwealth Coast Conference in July 2023. Before 2022, the last D-I independent school had been NJIT, which was forced to go independent when its then-current home of the Great West Conference collapsed in 2013 due to conference realignment. NJIT would eventually find a home in the ASUN Conference in 2015, and is now in the America East.
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