Jim Hatfield (December 28, 1943 – February 26, 2025) was an American college basketball coach.

He was head coach of the Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, Mississippi State Bulldogs, and the Hardin–Simmons Cowboys.

Following the close of his college career, he joined the coaching ranks.

An assistant at Kentucky from 1972 to 1974, he was hired as head coach of the University of Southern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in 1975 following a college basketball scandal there.

He compiled a record of 47–35 in three seasons and was then hired to coach Mississippi State of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).