Mizzou Hoops hires Tim Fuller as General Manager

The former Tigers assistant is returning to Columbia in an elevated role.

A former Mizzou Hoops assistant coach is returning to Columbia in a new role.

Tim Fuller was hired as the program’s first-ever general manager and will “help with strategic planning and roster construction with an emphasis on alumni engagement, agent relations and NIL optimization,” per a Mizzou Athletics press release.

If you’re a subscriber to Rock M+, this will be no surprise to you. Subscribers first heard Fuller’s name in connection to the general manager spot more than 6 weeks ago.

Fuller served as Mizzou’s associate head coach from 2011 to 2015 under head coaches Frank Haith and Kim Anderson, going 5-0 as interim head coach to start the 2013-14 season while Haith served out a five-game suspension.

He joins head coach Dennis Gates after three years as an assistant at Providence under former Tiger Kim English, helping the team punch a ticket to March Madness in 2023 and the NIT in 2024.

Fuller also spent time as an assistant at Wake Forest, where he played in college and was hired after coaching Chris Paul in high school, and one year on Rick Pitino’s staff at Louisville.

But his off the court experience is likely what got him the job.

“His elite combination of skills and experience in the sport and his innovative mindset is exactly what this job requires,” Gates said in the press release, “He is one of the most connected individuals in the sport and his ability to form relationships is what makes him a great addition to our staff.”

Fuller was the Director of Scouting and Recruiting at Overtime Elite, playing an instrumental role in getting the organization started and turning it into a premier option for the nation’s top high school talent.

He led OE’s signings of top recruits and current NBA players Amen and Ausar Thompson, Alex Sarr and Rob Dillingham, all of whom went in the top eight picks of the draft.

The Lake Ridge, Virginia, native also spent three years as a marketing director at Nike, working closely with now-Dallas Mavericks president of basketball operations and general manager Nico Harrison.

Fuller soon became known as “Nike’s East Coast guy,” according to a September 2024 Yahoo article, and his extensive contacts earned him the assistant job at Louisville.

He has deep ties to all levels of basketball, high school, college and professional, and was dubbed “the ‘most feared’ basketball recruiter you’ve never heard of” in the Yahoo article.

Mizzou will bank on those contacts making him uniquely prepared for a brand-new role created to take on the shifting landscape of college hoops.