FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Indiana Tech men's basketball team has released its schedule for the 2023-24 season.
 
Head Coach Ted Albert enters his seventh year at the helm of Warrior basketball. The 2022-2023 was a historic season for the Warriors as they finished just one basket shy of a national championship, marking the best finish in program history. Albert helped lead the program to a 32-5 overall record, the first 30-win season for the Warriors and the most wins in program history. Albert now sits at an even 150 wins at Tech (150-53), the third most wins for a head coach in the team's history. Tech would go 18-2 in WHAC play on their way to a second straight, and three of the last four, conference regular season championships. The Warriors would remain in the top 25 in the national ranking all season, finishing at No. 6 in the final poll. In the postseason, the Warriors would fall in the conference tournament final. At the NAIA National Championships, the Warriors would earn the No. 2 seed in the Liston Quadrant and go on to defeat Indiana University at South Bend, Evangel University, University of Jamestown, Arizona Christian University, and Georgetown University before falling in the national championship game to the College of Idaho 71-73. Four Warriors would be named to the WHAC All-Conference teams in 2022-23, including Rog Stein and Cory McKinney who also won WHAC Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, respectively. Stein also garnered All-American honors, while five Warriors would be named to the WHAC All-Academic Team and six would be named NAIA Scholar Athletes. Coach Albert was also named WHAC Coach of the Year, his third time winning the award during his time at Tech, as well as the Don Meyer National Coach of the Year.
 
Tech will start the 2023-24 season with five straight home games with the first two being part of the WHAC/Crossroads League Challenge. The Warriors will first take on Indiana Wesleyan University on October 27^th and then will host Spring Arbor on October 28^th. On November 15^th, the Orange and Black will host cross town rival, the University of Saint Francis in their last game before conference play. Tech will first look to defend last season's regular season WHAC title when they welcome Madonna University to the Schaefer Center on November 18^th. The Warriors will face their first road test on November 21^st when they travel to Cleary University as the Cougars enter their inaugural season. After a flurry of games throughout December, the Warriors will travel to Ohio when the visit the University of Rio Grande on December 20^th in their final game of 2023. Tech will head into the new year with their first matchup coming on the third of January, on the road, against the University of Michigan-Dearborn. The Warriors will then play 14 more games over the course of the next seven weeks before they wrap up their regular season with a road matchup against the University of Northwest Ohio on February 24^th. The WHAC Tournament is set for February 29-March 5^th and the NAIA National Championship will begin on March 15^th.