The Terriers, led by 13th-year head coach Glenn Braica, opened the season as members of the Northeast Conference, playing their final two home games at Daniel Lynch Gymnasium in Brooklyn Heights, New York.

7 seed in the NEC Tournament, they lost to Fairleigh Dickinson in the quarterfinals.

[4] In what would prove to be the final men's basketball game in the history of St. Francis Brooklyn,[3] Fairleigh Dickinson scored the first seven points and led wire to wire to complete a season sweep of three games over the Terriers with an 83–75 victory in the NEC tournament quarterfinals.

The Terriers cut the deficit to four points with 1:48 to play, after an 11–4 run, led by redshirt freshman Zion Bethea, but Fairleigh Dickinson hit their free throws down the stretch.

Bethea and Tedrick Wilcox Jr. finished with 17 points each for St. Francis Brooklyn.