The 2017–18 North Carolina Central Eagles men's basketball team represented North Carolina Central University during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

The Eagles, led by ninth-year head coach LeVelle Moton, played their home games at McDougald–McLendon Gymnasium in Durham, North Carolina as members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

[1] There they defeated the Pirates to receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year.

In the MEAC tournament, they defeated Bethune–Cookman, Maryland Eastern Shore, and Norfolk State to win the tournament championship.

As a result, they earned the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.