| Mode: | Basketball |
| Year: | 2024–25 |
| Team: | East Texas A&M Lions |
| Conference: | Southland Conference |
| Short Conf: | Southland |
| Record: | 1–7 |
| Conf Record: | 0–0 |
| Hc Year: | 7th |
| Asst Coach1: | Coleman Furst |
| Asst Coach2: | A.J. Holland |
| Asst Coach3: | Trey Conrod |
| Next: | 2024–25 |
The 2024–25 East Texas A&M Lions men's basketball team represents East Texas A&M University in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Lions, led by seventh-year head coach Jaret von Rosenberg, play their home games at The Field House in Commerce, Texas, as members of the Southland Conference.
This season marks Texas A&M–Commerce's third year of an originally scheduled four–year transition period from Division II to Division I. As a result, the Lions will not be eligible for NCAA postseason play until the 2026–27 season. However, the Division I Council is preparing to vote on a proposal to shorten the period for such a transition to three years. Should the proposal be approved in January 2025, the Lions would be eligible in 2025–26.[1]
This is the first season for the university under its then-current identity. On November 7, 2024, after the Lions had played their first two games of the 2024–25 season,[2] the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents approved the proposed change of the university's name to East Texas A&M University. The name change took effect immediately.[3]
The Lions finished the 2023–24 season 13–20, 6–12 in Southland play to finish in seventh place.[4] They defeated Northwestern State,[5] before falling to Nicholls in the second round of the Southland tournament.[6]
The Southland Conference released its preseason poll on October 16, 2024. Receiving 54 votes overall, the Lions were picked in a tie to finish tenth in the conference.[7] [8]
| 1 | McNeese | 242 (21) | |
| 2 | Stephen F. Austin | 208 | |
| 3 | Nicholls | 205 (3) | |
| 4 | Texas A&M–Corpus Christi | 191 | |
| 5 | Lamar | 143 | |
| 6 | Southeastern | 121 | |
| 7 | Incarnate Word | 117 | |
| 8 | UT Rio Grande Valley | 112 | |
| 9 | Northwestern State | 90 | |
| 10 | Texas A&M–Commerce | 54 | |
| 10 | New Orleans | 54 | |
| 12 | Houston Christian | 48 |
No Lions were selected as members of a preseason all–conference team.
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