The 2017–18 La Salle Explorers basketball team represented La Salle University during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

The Explorers, led by 14th-year head coach John Giannini, played their home games at Tom Gola Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.

[1] On March 23, 2018, head coach John Giannini and the school mutually agreed to part ways after 14 seasons.

On April 8, the school hired Villanova assistant Ashley Howard as head coach.

[4] Sources: Sources: In a poll of the league’s head coaches and select media members at the conference's media day, the Hawks were picked to finish in ninth place in the A-10.