The Cougars are led by eleventh-year head coach Kelvin Sampson.

The team plays their home games at the Fertitta Center as second-year members of the Big 12 Conference.

They defeated TCU and Texas Tech to advance to the Big 12 tournament championship game where they lost to Iowa State.

[1] They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as the #1 seed in the South Regional.

There they were defeated by Duke after losing their starting point guard, Jamal Shead, to an ankle sprain during the game.