After guiding Knox to a share of fifth place in the conference, Tim Heimann, in his last season at the helm, was honored as the Midwest Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year on Tuesday, March 4. Junior Adam Estergard and senior Grant Kluge also received all-conference honorable mention. The Prairie Fire were picked to finish ninth in the conference preseason poll after winning three conference games in 2006-07 and graduating their lone All-MWC selection in Jason Maclin.

"This award says more about the quality of this team than it says about me," said Heimann. "Some of the most successful seasons we've had have been when we weren't given much of a chance and were picked low in the preseason poll. Many of those seasons, we ended up getting into the conference tournament, and I thought maybe it would happen again this year. We gave it a run and almost did it."

Knox opened the conference season with a 96-90 double overtime victory over Ripon College on Friday, November 30. The next afternoon, the Prairie Fire picked up a 62-56 win over St. Norbert for a 2-0 league start. Knox, which swept the two-game season series from St. Norbert and also defeated conference-tournament-qualifier Carroll College, remained in contention for a conference tournament berth entering the final week of the regular season.

The Prairie Fire featured a balanced attack with only one player (Adam Estergard) averaging double figures in scoring this season. Six other players averaged more than 6.4 points per contest.

Heimann, who retired from coaching at the end of the season, also won the conference honor in 1997. He finished his 24-year Knox head coaching career with more than 250 victories.