The 2017–18 Incarnate Word Cardinals men's basketball team represented the University of the Incarnate Word during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

The Cardinals were led by 12th-year head coach Ken Burmeister and played their home games at McDermott Convocation Center in San Antonio, Texas as members of the Southland Conference.

[1] The Cardinals hired Carson Cunningham from Carroll College of the NAIA as the new head coach on March 22, 2018.

The season was the final year of a four-year transitional period for Incarnate Word from Division II to Division I.

[3] During year four, the Cardinals played a normal conference schedule.