Chris Lydon began his 3rd season as assistant coach for the Jumbos in 2025-26, where Lydon assisted the program to their second Elite Eight NCAA Tournament appearance in school history. Lydon showcases an overall record of 66-20 (0.767) with the Jumbos, a NESCAC record of 21-9 (.700), as well as a 6-3 (.667) record in three years in the NCAA Tournament. Lydon comes to Medford after serving as an assistant coach at Suffolk University from 2021-23, an assistant coach at Wheaton from 2020-21, and as a volunteer with the Northeastern Huskies in 2019-20.  Lydon was also a Division I basketball player at UMass Amherst, where he graduated from the Isenberg School of Business and earned Scholar-Athlete honors in 2016.

Previously, Lydon was an assistant coach at Suffolk University from 2021-23 where he helped the Rams to back-to-back 16 win seasons during the program's first two years in the Conference of New England. Lydon was the recruiting coordinator and was integral in the development of several CNE All-Conference players: Nate Hale, Aidan Sullivan and Keenan Robertson. Lydon assisted head coach Jeff Juron.

Prior to Suffolk, Lydon was an assistant coach at Wheaton College for the 2020-21 season where he worked under head coach Brian Walmsley. Lydon was primarily focused on player development where he helped develop two future NEWMAC All-Conference guards in Alex Carlisle and Evan Cook. 

During the 2019-20 season, Lydon served as a volunteer at Division I Northeastern University. As part of the Huskies' staff, he helped with video analysis and on-court metrics, as well as tracking play-call success rate. Lydon worked under head coach Bill Coen.

The former University of Massachusetts player earned a full scholarship with the Minutemen after walking on to the Division I program and playing under head coach Derek Kellogg. He graduated in 2016 with Scholar-Athlete honors from the UMass Isenberg School of Business in the Mark H. McCormack Sports Management program.