They played their home games at the Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kansas and were led by 10th-year head coach Gregg Marshall.

As a result, they earned the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

10 seed in the South region, they defeated Dayton in the first round before losing to No.

Sources: The Shockers were picked, for the fourth consecutive year, to win the Missouri Valley Conference by an MVC preseason poll.

[2] Markis McDuffie, the 2016 MVC Freshman of the Year, was selected to the conference's preseason All-MVC team.