UT Tyler VP for Athletics Dr. Howard Patterson is pleased to announce Tim Moser as the next head men’s basketball coach.
Moser becomes the fifth head men’s basketball coach in the history of the UT Tyler men’s basketball program, and takes over the reigns of the men’s program after helping guide the UT Tyler women’s side to a 27-8 record and berth in the NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Elite Eight this season. Prior to his two recent seasons as Associate Head Coach for the women’s basketball program at UT Tyler, Moser accrued a combined 20 seasons as a head coach between men’s and women’s basketball at the NCAA Division II and NJCAA levels.
“I am excited to take on the challenge of taking the reigns for the men’s basketball program,” Moser said. “UT Tyler has proven itself as a place where winning can be a consistent thing. I look forward to the opportunity to build something special. Thank you to Dr. Patterson and the hiring committee for entrusting me with the future of a program that is positioned for success.”
Moser returns to the men’s side of the collegiate game after serving as the Associate Head Coach for a remarkable turnaround within the UT Tyler women’s basketball program. The Patriots went 19-9 in Moser’s first season with the program in 2021-22, and most recently completed a 2022-23 season in which they claimed the NCAA South Central Regional Championship, advancing to the progam’s first-ever NCAA Division II Elite Eight in the second season of postseason eligibility.
“UT Tyler Athletics is pleased to announce Tim Moser has been hired as it’s new head men’s basketball coach,” Dr. Patterson said. “UT Tyler’s academic reputation, teaching facilities, and faculty staff are second to none. Patriot Athletic’s reputation is solidifying its place as equally talented nationally with its excellent coaches, support staff and facilities. Coach Moser is a high achiever and I have no doubt his teams will immediately be successful on and off the court.”
Moser played a key role in the turnaround of a program that went 3-37 in the first two years of Division II competition in 2019-20 and 2020-21, to a 46-17 record under the guidance of head coach Rebecca Alvidrez and Moser in 2021-22 and 2022-23.
Moser’s most recent head coaching experience came prior to his role with the Patriots, as he served as the head men’s basketball coach at Eastern Wyoming College from 2018-2021. He turned around a program that had six straight losing seasons prior to his arrival in 2018 and guided the Lancers to an NJCAA Region IX Final Four berth in 2020-2021 in just his third season at the helm of the program before joining the women’s basketball staff at UT Tyler.
As a head coach, Moser holds a 511-173 career record (.747%) and has won 13 conference championships en route to 12 conference or region coach of the year accolades. Combined with his totals as an assistant coach, Moser has coached 20 conference championship teams during his storied career.
Prior to his stint at Eastern Wyoming, Moser spent six seasons as the lead assistant coach on the women’s side at Colorado State University, helping lead the Rams to an 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 as head coach of Alaska Anchorage women’s basketball program. Moser elevated the Seawolves among the nation’s elite in NCAA Division II women’s basketball, tallying a record of 150-31 over six seasons. Moser’s .829 win percentage was the ninth-best of any active head coach over that stretch, regardless of NCAA division (I, II or III).
While head coach of the Seawolves, Moser’s athletes combined to receive two WBCA All-America honors, three WBCA All-America Honorable Mentions, a CoSIDA Academic All-America selection, four Great Northwest Athletic Conference Player of the Year accolades, two GNAC Championships MVP distinctions, five GNAC Newcomer of the Year awards, a GNAC Freshman of the Year honor, 18 all-conference nods and four WBCA All-West Regional accolades.
Prior to Moser’s arrival 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 his 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 a pair of 30-win seasons.
In Moser’s six-year stretch as UAA head coach, only two other Division II women’s programs posted as many victories as the Seawolves and none were ranked in the coaches’ top 25 for as many consecutive weeks (81). The Seawolves further distinguished themselves by dropping no lower than to a No. 19 ranking during those 81 weeks, a claim no other Division II club could make over that span.
Moser played his college basketball at UAA, and returned to coach there 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 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 also made academics an emphasis for his teams, and at Alaska Anchorage, his players combined to earn 19 GNAC All-Academic honors. While at OJC, 15 athletes earned Academic All-America honors and 52 were named Academic All-Region. The men ranking among the nation’s top five teams in terms of grade-point average in five different season, while his women’s teams had a top-10 academic rank in all six of his season.
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 recently completed a doctorate degree from Concordia University Chicago.
