The 2016–17 Fort Wayne Mastodons men's basketball team, formerly known as the IPFW Mastodons, represented
Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
during the
2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 11, 2016. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic, and ended with the Final Four in Glendale, Arizona on April 3, 2017. Practices officially began on September 30, 20 ...
. The Mastodons, led by third-year head coach
Jon Coffman
Jonathan Glenn Coffman (born July 28, 1973) is an American college basketball coach, currently men's head coach at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Coffman was hired as an assistant to head coach IPFW head coach Tony Jasick in 2011. When Jasick chose ...
, played their home games at the
Gates Sports Center and the
Allen County War Memorial Coliseum as members of
The Summit League
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. They finished the season 20–13, 8–8 in Summit League play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place. They defeated the number 3 ranked Indians Hoosiers 71-68 in overtime. They lost in the quarterfinals of the
Summit League tournament to
Omaha. They were invited to the
CollegeInsider.com Tournament where they defeated
Ball State in the first round and received a second round bye before losing in the quarterfinals to
Texas A&M–Corpus Christi.
This was the first season in which the IPFW athletic program has been officially branded as "Fort Wayne", following a change in athletic department policy announced on August 8, 2016. The Summit League had started using "Fort Wayne" in 2012 as part of a conference initiative, and some IPFW teams had been using the "Fort Wayne" branding before the August 2016 announcement.
Previous season
The
Mastodons
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finished the
2015–16 season 24–10, 12–4 in Summit League play to finish in a tie for the regular season championship. They lost in the semifinals of the
Summit League tournament to
North Dakota State
North Dakota State University (NDSU, formally North Dakota State University of Agriculture and Applied Sciences) is a public land-grant research university in Fargo, North Dakota. It was founded as North Dakota Agricultural College in 1890 as t ...
. As a regular season league champion who was also the No. 1 seed in their league tournament, they received an automatic bid to the
National Invitation Tournament where they lost in the first round to
San Diego State
San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California. Founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, it is the third-oldest university and southernmost in the 23-member California State University (CSU) system ...
.
Roster
Schedule and results
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The Summit League tournament
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CIT
References
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