The Seawolves were led by first-year head coach Jeff Boals and played their home games at Island Federal Credit Union Arena in Stony Brook, New York as members of the America East Conference.

2 seed in the America East tournament, they defeated Binghamton before losing to Albany in the semifinals.

They defeated UMBC, Hartford, and Vermont to win the America East tournament.

[1] As a result, they earned the conference's automatic bid go the NCAA tournament, the first in school history.

On April 8, the school announced they had hired Jeff Boals as head coach.