They played their home games at Xfinity Center in College Park, Maryland, as members of the Big Ten Conference.

With a new head coach and coming off their first losing season in 29 years, the bar for this group was quite low.

However, thanks to a dominant 8–0 start, dominating wins over Miami and Saint Louis, and a home win against a ranked conference foe Illinois, they reached as high as #13 in the AP poll.

They earned an 8-seed in the NCAA tournament and beat West Virginia in the first round before falling to overall number 1 seed Alabama.

10 seed in the Big Ten tournament, they lost to Michigan State in the second round.