| Mode: | Basketball |
| Sex: | none |
| Year: | 2024–25 |
| Prev Year: | 2023–24 |
| Team: | Lamar Cardinals |
| Conference: | Southland Conference |
| Short Conf: | Southland |
| Record: | 2–5 |
| Conf Record: | 0–0 |
| Head Coach: | Alvin Brooks |
| Hc Year: | 4th |
| Asst Coach1: | Charles Harral |
| Ac1 Year: | 4th |
| Asst Coach2: | Wendell Moore |
| Ac2 Year: | 4th |
| Asst Coach3: | Ethan Quinn |
| Ac3 Year: | 1st |
| Stadium: | Neches Federal Credit Union Arena at the Montagne Center (Capacity: 10,080) |
The 2024–25 Lamar Cardinals basketball team represents Lamar University during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Cardinals are led by fourth-year head coach Alvin Brooks and play their home games at the Neches Federal Credit Union Arena at the Montagne Center in Beaumont, Texas.
The Cardinals finished the season 19–14 overall and 12–6 in Southland Conference play for a fourth-place conference finish. As the fourth-seeded team, the Cardinals were 1–1 in the SLC tournament defeating eighth-seeded New Orleans 71–57[1] and losing to top-seeded McNeese 57–76 in the semifinal round.[2]
The Southland Conference released its preseason poll on October 16, 2024. Receiving 143 votes overall, the Cardinals were picked to finish fifth in the conference.[3] [4]
| 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 Cardinals were selected as members of a preseason all-conference team.[3]
Additional source: [5]
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|-!colspan=12 style=| Southland tournament
2024–25 Lamar Lady Cardinals basketball team