Jordan Lyons enters his third season at Navy during the fall of 2025. He also serves as the team’s offensive coordinator.
At Navy (2023-24 to Present)
His first season on The Yard saw the Mids have one of the youngest teams in the country (15th, in terms of average age of the roster). Navy would compile an overall record of 13-18 in 2023-24 and posted an 8-10 record in league play.
Navy compiled a 10-8 record during the 2024-25 Patriot League regular season to end the regular season in a tie for third place. The Mids went on the road to win a pair of games and reach the championship game of the Patriot League Tournament. Navy closed the year with a 15-19 overall record.
At Furman (2022-23)
Lyons began his coaching career as a video and analytics coordinator at his alma mater during the 2022-23 season. The Paladins ended the season with an overall record of 28-8, shared the SoCon regular season title with a 15-3 record and won the conference tournament for the first time since 1980.
Furman made its first trip to the NCAA Tournament in over four decades a memorable one as it defeated Virginia in the first round before losing to eventual tournament-finalist San Diego State in the second round.
Individually, Mike Bothwell and Jalen Slawson were finalists for the 2023 Lou Henson Mid-Major Player of the Year Award, Slawson was named the SoCon Player of the Year and was later a second round selection by Sacramento in the 2023 NBA Draft and Bothwell signed a free agent contract with Cleveland that same year.
Collegiate Playing Career (2016-17 to 2019-20)
Lyons graduated from Furman in 2020 with a bachelor degree in communication studies. On the basketball court, he totaled 1,529 points in his career to rank 16th on the school’s scoring list and is the program’s leading three-point shooter with 288 triples over his four years. Lyons tied the NCAA record for the most treys made in a single game when he drained 15 against North Greenville on Nov. 15, 2018. He scored 54 points against the Crusaders that day, an effort that ranks eighth in school history and is tied for 10th place in Southern Conference history.
Lyons received all-conference accolades in both 2019 (third team) and 2020 (first team) after first being named to the Southern Conference All-Freshman Team in 2017. He also earned placement on the conference’s all-tournament team in 2018 and ‘19. Additionally, he was named to the Lou Henson Mid-Major All-America Team in 2020.
Lyons was part of Furman teams that shared the 2017 Southern Conference regular season title and never placed lower than third in the conference standings in his four seasons. The Paladins amassed an overall record of 96-37 and a SoCon regular season record of 55-17 during his career. He started on the 2018-19 team that opened the season with a 12-0 record, defeated 2018 NCAA national champion Villanova and 2019 Final Four team Loyola (Ill.), appeared in the Associated Press top-25 national rankings for three weeks and played host to Wichita State in the first round of the NIT.
Professional Playing Career (2020-21 to 2021-22)
After graduating from Furman, he began a professional career that included stops in the Latvian Estonian Basketball League (BK Ogre, 2020), The Basketball League (Shreveport Mavericks, 2021) and the Kosovo Superliga and Liga Unike (KB Prezreni-16, 2022).
Personal
The Peachtree City, Ga., native graduated from McIntosh High School with a school and Fayette County (Ga.)-record 2,351 points. Lyons earned all-region and all-county accolades in each of his four seasons to go along with a pair of all-state laurels. He was inducted into the McIntosh High School Hall of Fame in 2022.
He and his wife, Dyman, reside in Annapolis.
