Timothy Floyd Fuller (born February 7, 1978) is the Vice President of Recruiting and Player Personnel at Overtime Elite.[1] He is the former associate head basketball coach at the University of Missouri. He has worked as an assistant coach under Ernie Nestor, Skip Prosser, Ed Cooley, Rick Pitino, Frank Haith and Kim Anderson.
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Assistant coach |
| Team | Providence |
| Conference | Big East |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | February 7, 1978 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
| Playing career | |
| 1996–2000 | Wake Forest |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2000–2001 | North Carolina A&T (asst.) |
| 2001–2002 | West Forsyth HS (asst.) |
| 2002–2004 | Elon (asst.) |
| 2004–2006 | Wake Forest (asst.) |
| 2006–2007 | Fairfield (asst.) |
| 2010–2011 | Louisville (asst.) |
| 2011–2015 | Missouri (asst.) |
| 2023–present | Providence (asst.) |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 2015–2020 | Harris–Stowe State (president's advisor) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 5–0 |
Education
editFuller attended Woodbridge Senior High School. He graduated in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in communications from Wake Forest University, where he played on the men's basketball team.
Career
editIn 2010, while working at a basketball camp in China, Fuller was offered and accepted an assistant coach position for the University of Louisville men's college basketball.[2]
In April 2012, Fuller was named associate coach of the University of Missouri men's basketball program.[3]
He was named one of college basketball's Top 10 assistant coaches under the age of 40 by ESPN.com in May 2012.[4]
He also worked as a Nike pro sports representative.[5]
With Missouri Basketball coach Frank Haith suspended for the start of the 2013–14 basketball season Missouri's associate head coach Tim Fuller got a chance to be the head coach for the first five games. In his first game filling in he coached the Tigers to an 89–53 victory over Southeastern Louisiana starting the season 1–0. He would go on to coach the team to four more victories defeating Southern Illinois (72–59), Hawai'i (92–80), Gardner-Webb (72–63), and IUPUI (78–64) finishing the five games of Haith's suspension 5–0.
In May 2015, Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis hired Fuller as an advisor on athletic matters to the university president.[6]
Head coaching record
edit| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri Tigers (Southeastern Conference) (2013–2013) | |||||||||
| 2013–14* | Missouri | 5–0 | 0–0 | ||||||
| Missouri: | 5–0 (1.000) | 0–0 (–) | |||||||
| Total: | 5–0 (1.000) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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(*) Interim Head coach
References
edit- ^ Jordan, Jason. "Overtime Elite's Tim Fuller Discusses Influx of Top Prospects". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
- ^ "Louisville hires Tim Fuller as assistant coach", USA Today, June 28, 2010
- ^ "Tim Fuller named MU's associate head basketball coach", Columbia Tribune, April 15, 2012 [permanent dead link]
- ^ ESPN.com, "Top 10 Thursday: Assistants 40 and under," May 10, 2012
- ^ Men's Journal Magazine "Basketball's Unlikely Guru," By Ivan Solotaroff, November 16, 2009 Archived November 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Matter, Dave (May 15, 2015). "Harris-Stowe hires Tim Fuller as advisor". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
External links
edit- Missouri bio
- Louisville bio
- Wake Forest bio Archived 2016-05-30 at the Wayback Machine