Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Wildcats were led by fifth-year head coach Neil McCarthy and played their home games on campus at Dee Events Center in Ogden, Utah.
[4][5] The sole conference loss was at Idaho, the league runner-up,[6][7] which broke an 18-game winning streak and dropped Weber's poll ranking (AP, UPI) from 15 to 17.
Ranked seventeenth in both major polls,[1] Weber State earned the Big Sky's berth in the expanded 48-team NCAA tournament.
[10][11] Senior guard Bruce Collins was a unanimous selection to the all-conference team, becoming the seventh player to be named in three consecutive years.
[12][13][14][15] A four-year starter, Collins scored over two thousand points for the Wildcats, including 32 in his final game, the NCAA loss to Lamar.