The team played their home games at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Indiana as members of the Big Ten Conference.

[1] The Boilermakers finished the 2018–19 season 26–10, 16–4 in Big Ten play to win a share of the Big Ten regular season championship, the school's conference-record 24th championship.

They defeated Old Dominion in the First Round[3] before beating defending champion Villanova to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.

[6] In March 2019, assistant Greg Gary was hired as the new head coach at Mercer.

[7] As a result, Painter hired Micah Shrewsberry to return as associate head coach in May 2019.