Big 12 Men's Basketball Championships - Missouri vs. Baylor - March 10, 2012
Tim Fuller, one of the country's top recruiters and highly-respected young coaches comes to Missouri for his first season as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. Fuller joins Mizzou from Louisville where he coached under Rick Pitino.
A former player at Wake Forest, Fuller has coached and worked at every level of basketball, from high school to the NCAA, with college experience in between. He has 11 seasons of basketball coaching, marketing and administrative experience under his belt.
Fuller met Missouri head coach Frank Haith while a student-athlete at Wake Forest when Haith served as an assistant coach to Dave Odom. Fuller earned varsity letters while playing for the Demon Deacons from 1997-2000, including a run to No. 2 in the country, and was named a co-captain during his senior season.
"I have known Tim (Fuller) since his playing days at Wake Forest," Haith said. "He is a tireless worker. He has risen up the coaching ranks and has made a big impact at every stop along the way. He has learned from some great coaches. Coach (Rick) Pitino, Coach (Dave) Odom and of course Coach (Ernie) Nestor, so Tim has a wealth of experience. Obviously Tim has great contacts all over the country, not just because of his ability to teach the game of basketball, but his connections with Nike and the AAU and high school circuits. Being able to hire Tim from a school like Louisville speaks volumes to what can take place at Missouri. This program is highly thought of across America. This is a big step in taking our program to that next level."
"I'm excited to join Coach Haith and the Missouri family," Fuller said. "The academics, the facilities, the location, the talent and the great AAU and high school programs in this state make this job one of the elite in America."
After graduating from Wake Forest with a degree in communications in 2000, Fuller served as an intern in the Atlantic Coast Conference office and worked as a volunteer coach with Division I North Carolina A&T. Fuller secured his first full-time coaching duties at the high school level at West Forsyth High School in Clemmons, N.C., where he coached future New Orleans Hornets and LA Clippers star, Chris Paul.
Fuller broke back into the college ranks in 2002-03 as an assistant for Ernie Nestor at Elon College and was promoted to associate head coach at Elon before briefly joining Haith's staff at Miami as the Director of Basketball Operations. Fuller returned to his alma mater (Wake Forest) as the Director of Basketball Operations for two seasons under Skip Prosser and joined Ed Cooley's staff at Fairfield for a season in 2006-07 as an assistant coach. Taking a hiatus from the college game, Fuller joined Nike to help promote the game of basketball at the NBA level before returning to college at Louisville in 2010.
The Woodbridge, Va., native and his wife, La'Kicia, have three children, Timothy II, Gabriel Elijah and Solomon Dior.
