The team was coached by Rody Cooney, who was in his fourth year at the helm of the St. Francis Terriers.

The team was a member of the Metropolitan New York Conference and played its home games at the Bulter Street Gymnasium in their Cobble Hill, Brooklyn campus.

The Terriers were invited to play in the District 1 tryouts at Madison Square Garden for the 1936 Summer Olympics.

[1] The Terriers were selected after LIU, NYU and Columbia declined to compete.

[2] In the Olympic tryouts the Terriers defeated Springfield College, the birthplace of Basketball, at Madison Square Garden and during the game set two Garden records.