They played their home games at Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kansas and were led by 12th-year head coach Gregg Marshall as members of the American Athletic Conference.

Samajae Haynes-Jones and Dexter Dennis have, in total, three notable buzzer-beaters at SMU, UConn and Tulane.

In the semifinal matchup at Madison Square Garden, they were defeated by the winners of the UNC Greensboro bracket, Lipscomb, 64–71.

2 seed in the AAC tournament, they defeated Temple in the quarterfinals[2] before losing to Houston in the semifinals.

Kyle Lindsted left after three seasons on the Shockers' staff to take the same position at Minnesota under Richard Pitino.