The 2016–17 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's basketball team represented Southern Illinois University Edwardsville during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

The Cougars, led by second year head coach Jon Harris, played their home games at the Vadalabene Center in Edwardsville, Illinois as members of the West Division of the Ohio Valley Conference.

In a vote of Ohio Valley Conference head men’s basketball coaches and sports information directors, SIUE was picked to finish fifth in the OVC's West Division.

[2] With a forbidding foreboding, the Cougars lost their only exhibition game at home to the Division II McKendree Bearcats.

The conference slate was a near-total disaster, as the Cougars pulled out their only OVC win in their last game on Senior Night.