| Mode: | basketball |
| Year: | 2024–25 |
| Team: | Old Dominion Monarchs |
| Conference: | Sun Belt Conference |
| Short Conf: | Sun Belt |
| Record: | 3–6 |
| Conf Record: | 0–0 |
| Hc Year: | 1st |
| Asst Coach2: | Ryan Nadeau |
| Sex: | men |
The 2024–25 Old Dominion Monarchs men's basketball team represents Old Dominion University during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Monarchs, led by first-year head coach Mike Jones, play their home games at Chartway Arena in Norfolk, Virginia as members of the Sun Belt Conference.
The Monarchs finished the 2023–24 season 7–25, 3–15 in Sun Belt play to finish in last place among conference opponents. The Monarchs would lose to Texas State in the first round of the Sun Belt Conference tournament.[1]
Following the mid-season departure of eleven-year head coach Jeff Jones, former Monarchs player Mike Jones was hired to assume the role of head coach.[2] Jones retained assistant coach Jamal Robinson and hired new assistant coaches Ryan Nadeau and James Robinson for the 2024–25 season.[3] [4]
Along with Georgia Southern, the Monarchs were picked to finish eighth place in the conference's preseason poll.[5]
| Coaches poll | ||
| 1 | Arkansas State – 193 (12) | |
| 2 | James Madison – 170 (1) | |
| 3 | Troy – 155 (1) | |
| 4 | Louisiana – 144 | |
| 5 | Southern Miss – 133 | |
| 6 | App State – 122 | |
| 7 | Texas State – 89 | |
| T8 | Georgia Southern – 85 | |
| T8 | Old Dominion – 85 | |
| 10 | Marshall – 79 | |
| 11 | South Alabama – 78 | |
| 12 | Georgia State – 75 | |
| 13 | Coastal Carolina – 34 | |
| 14 | ULM – 28 | |
On November 4, guard Imo Essien announced he would forgo playing in his senior season due to recurrent health issues.[6] |-!colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season|-!colspan=9 style=| Sun Belt regular season|-!colspan=9 style=| Sun Belt tournamentSources[7] [8]