Oklahoma City announced the hiring of head men’s basketball coach Tim Moser, bringing in an experienced NCAA coach to lead the defending Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament champions in 2026-27.

“We are excited to welcome Coach Moser to our OCU athletic family,” said OCU Director of Athletics Sadiaa Jones. “His talents as a coach, his work ethic, and experience fit well with our tradition here at OCU.”

Moser comes to OCU from the University of Texas at Tyler, an NCAA Division II program. Moser served Tyler as the head men’s basketball coach and led the team to its best Lone Star Conference record last season. He has had career success with men’s and women’s teams in his career. He has a win-loss record of 542-242 combined. His men’s teams at UT Tyler, Eastern Wyoming and Otero were 240-169 and his women’s teams at Alaska-Anchorage and Otero were 302-73.

“I am super excited for this opportunity,” said Moser. “I am so lucky to work under great athletic leadership and to be surrounded by great people. OCU is simply a winner in everything and the tradition of OCU speaks for itself.  I will work my hardest to build something special that will make both the college and alumni proud.”  

Moser has 20 years of experience as a college head coach and has also served as an assistant coach at UT Tyler and Colorado State. His teams have won 13 conference championships en route to 12 conference or regional coach-of-the-year accolades. Combined with his totals as an assistant coach, Moser has coached 20 conference championship teams during his storied career.

Before being named the UT Tyler men’s head coach for the 2023-24 season, Moser spent the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons as the associate head coach of the UT Tyler women’s basketball program. He helped guide the UT Tyler women to a 27-8 record and berth in the NCAA Division II Women’s Elite Eight in 2022-23.

Before his two seasons as the UT Tyler women’s associate head coach, Moser spent three seasons as the men’s head coach at Eastern Wyoming College, an NJCAA program. Moser led the Lancers to a record of 42-45 in three seasons (2018-21), including a 15-9 record in his final season (2020-21). He turned around a program that had six straight losing seasons before he arrived in 2018 and guided the Lancers to an NJCAA Region IX Final Four berth in 2020-2021.

Before coaching at Eastern Wyoming, Moser spent six seasons as the lead assistant coach for the Colorado State University women’s basketball team, helping lead the Rams to an unprecedented four consecutive regular-season Mountain West championships, a feat no other men’s or women’s basketball team has accomplished in Mountain West history. Among the other accomplishments during his time in Fort Collins, the Rams won a conference tournament championship, made four postseason appearances, and earned the program’s first postseason win since 2003.

Much of Moser’s success as a head coach came in a six-year stint at the Alaska-Anchorage women’s basketball program. As the head coach, Moser elevated the Seawolves among the nation’s elite in NCAA Division II women’s basketball, tallying a record of 165-32 over six seasons.

Before Moser was named the head coach in Anchorage, the Seawolves had averaged 10.7 wins per season over their previous six campaigns (2000-06). In his first season at UAA (2006-07), Moser led the Seawolves to a 23-6 record, their first NCAA Division II Tournament victory in seven seasons, and the eighth-largest turnaround of any Division II school that year. Moser earned his first Great Northwest Athletic Conference Coach of the Year accolade that season, an honor he would claim two more times in his tenure.

UAA went on to advance at least as far as the second round of the NCAA Division II Tournament in each of Moser’s next five seasons as head coach, including consecutive Final Four appearances in 2008 and 2009 and a third NCAA Elite Eight berth in 2012. Among the team’s accomplishments over that stretch were three NCAA West Region titles, two GNAC regular-season crowns, two GNAC Tournament titles, and three 30-win seasons.

Moser played collegiately at Alaska-Anchorage and went back there as the women’s head coach in April 2006 after his first head coaching job at Otero (Colo.) Junior College. While at OJC, he coached both the men and women, winning 74 percent of his games and nine conference coach of the year honors. Moser coached the OJC men exclusively for the final two seasons after six years leading both teams and finished his tenure with a 309-109 overall record as a head coach.

Moser is a graduate of CSU-Pueblo, earning his bachelor’s degree in social sciences. He has earned a pair of master’s degrees from Colorado State and Adams State. Moser also earned a doctorate from Concordia University Chicago.

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