The 2016–17 Northern Kentucky Norse men's basketball team represented Northern Kentucky University (NKU) during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

The Norse, led by second-year head coach John Brannen, played their home games at BB&T Arena in Highland Heights, Kentucky as members of the Horizon League.

4 seed in the Horizon League tournament, they defeated Wright State,[1] Youngstown State,[2] and Milwaukee[3] to win the Horizon League tournament.

[4] They received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament in the school's first year of eligibility after its transition to a Division I school.

They lost in the first round of the Horizon League tournament to Milwaukee.