| Sport: | basketball |
| Year: | 2024–25 |
| Team: | Mercyhurst Lakers |
| Conference: | Northeast Conference |
| Short Conf: | NEC |
| Record: | 5–5 |
| Conf Record: | 0–0 |
| Head Coach: | Gary Manchel |
| Hc Year: | 23rd |
| Asst Coach1: | Joe Causgrove |
| Asst Coach2: | Andrew Garcia |
| Asst Coach3: | Justin Lindner |
| Asst Coach4: | Chance Wright |
| Arena: | Owen McCormick Court |
The 2024–25 Mercyhurst Lakers men's basketball team represents Mercyhurst University during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Lakers, led by 23rd-year head coach Gary Manchel, play their home games on Owen McCormick Court in the Mercyhurst Athletic Center in Erie, Pennsylvania as first-year members of the Northeast Conference.
This season marks Mercyhurst's first year of a four-year transition period from Division II to Division I. As a result, the Lakers are not eligible to participate in the NCAA tournament until the 2028–29 season.[1]
The Lakers finished the 2023–24 season 15–16, 11–11 in PSAC play to finish in fifth place in the West division.[2] They were defeated by IUP in the first round of the PSAC tournament.[3]
The Northeast Conference released its preseason coaches' poll on October 24, 2024. The Lakers were picked to finish in seventh in the conference.[4]
| T-1. | Central Connecticut (5) |
|---|---|
| T-1. | Wagner (4) |
| 3. | Fairleigh Dickinson |
| 4. | Le Moyne |
| 5. | LIU |
| 6. | Chicago State |
| 7. | Mercyhurst |
| T-8. | Saint Francis |
| T-8. | Stonehill |
Graduate student forward Jeff Planutis was selected as a member of the NEC Preseason All-Conference Team.[5]
|-!colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season|-!colspan=12 style=| NEC regular seasonSources:[6] [7]