Tim Moser – the fifth head men’s basketball coach in UT Tyler athletics history -- is in his third season at the helm of the program in 2025-26. Moser has more than 500 career victories in a career that spans 19 years and four different schools as the head coach.
He’s coached men’s and women’s teams with equal success, posting a record of 225-158 in 13 seasons as a men’s head coach at three different schools (UT Tyler, Eastern Wyoming College, and Otero Junior College), and a record of 302-73 in 12 seasons as a women’s head coach at two different schools (Alaska-Anchorage and Otero JC).
He’s a combined 527-231 in his head coaching career and has 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.
In his first two seasons as the men’s coach at UT Tyler, the Patriots are 11-45 overall, but improved to 8-20 overall and 5-17 in the Lone Star Conference last season. Dontrell Hewlett earned honorable mention All-LSC honors under Moser’s tutelage in 2024-25, and Sam Phipps earned LSC Male Athletics Performance Athlete of the Year.
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.
Moser was a key player in the turnaround of the women’s program that went 3-37 in the first two years of NCAA Division II competition in 2019-20 (3-23 overall and 1-21 in the Lone Star Conference) and 2020-21 (0-14 and 0-14 in the COVID-shortened season). But when head coach Rebecca Alvidrez and Moser arrived, the Patriots’ turnaround began. In Moser’s two seasons as the associate head coach, Alvidrez and Moser led the Patriots to a 46-17 record (28-9 in the LSC), two appearances in the LSC Postseason Tournament, and the program’s first appearance in the NCAA Division II South Central Region Tournament.
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.
