| Brian Jones | |
| Current Title: | Assistant Coach |
| Current Team: | East Tennessee State |
| Current Conference: | SoCon |
| Birth Date: | 22 April 1971 |
| Birth Place: | Rock Island, Illinois, U.S. |
| Player Years1: | 1990–1994 |
| Player Team1: | Northern Iowa |
| Coach Years1: | 1996–1998 |
| Coach Team1: | Nebraska–Omaha (assistant) |
| Coach Years2: | 1998–1999 |
| Coach Team2: | Southwest Missouri State (assistant) |
| Coach Years3: | 1999–2006 |
| Coach Team3: | Iowa (assistant) |
| Coach Years4: | 2006–2019 |
| Coach Team4: | North Dakota |
| Coach Years5: | 2019–2022 |
| Coach Team5: | Illinois State (asst.) |
| Coach Years6: | 2022 |
| Coach Team6: | Illinois State (interim HC) |
| Coach Years7: | 2022–2023 |
| Coach Team7: | Bradley (assistant) |
| Coach Years8: | 2023–present |
| Coach Team8: | East Tennessee State (assistant) |
| Tournament Record: | 0–1 (NCAA Division I) 0–5 (CIT) |
| Championships: | 2 Great West tournament (2011, 2012) Big Sky regular season (2017) Big Sky tournament (2017) |
| Awards: | Big Sky Coach of the Year (2017) |
Brian Jones (born April 22, 1971) is an American college basketball coach. He is currently an assistant coach at East Tennessee State. Jones is a graduate of University of Northern Iowa. Prior to North Dakota Jones was a longtime assistant on the coaching staffs of Steve Alford. While working with Alford, he participated in the four NCAA Division I men's basketball tournaments, once with Southwest Missouri St. and three times with Iowa. Jones was named the 18th head coach of the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux basketball program on May 25, 2006. Under Jones' tenure at North Dakota, the university won back-to-back Great West tournament championships in 2011 and 2012, and he led North Dakota to four consecutive appearances in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament. In 2017, he led North Dakota to the NCAA Division I Tournament for the first time.
Jones was the interim head coach at Illinois State from February 14, 2022, through the end of the season following Dan Muller's resignation.[1]