The Eagles were led by first-year head coach Shantay Legans and played their home games at Reese Court in Cheney, Washington as members of the Big Sky Conference.

At the Big Sky tournament they defeated Portland State and Southern Utah to advance to the championship game where they lost to Montana.

On March 29, 2017, head coach Jim Hayford left Eastern Washington to take the head coaching job at in-state rival Seattle and was replaced by top assistant Shantay Legans.

[1] Sources: In separate preseason polls of league coaches and media, the Eagles were picked to finish in seventh place (coaches) and sixth place (media) in the Big Sky.

[2] Senior forward Bogdan Bliznyuk was named to the preseason All-Big Sky team.