The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Sports Arena in Atlanta, Georgia as a member of the Sun Belt Conference.

The Panthers also went on to defeat Texas State and UT Arlington to become back-to-back champions of the Sun Belt tournament.

As a result, they received the Sun Belt's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

[1] On March 24, Tulane officially announced Hunter as head coach.

[2] It was later reported Hunter opted to leave Georgia State due to a disagreement between the university and Hunter over contract details regarding performance bonuses, tying them to his team's GPA, which was purported by the university to be declining year after year.