Tim MacAllister - Men's Basketball Coach

Tim MacAllister

Title:
Chief of Staff
Email:
timothy.macallister@ttu.edu

Tim MacAllister helped lead Texas Tech to the 2019 NCAA National Championship final and to the Big 12 Conference regular-season championship in his first season as the program’s Chief of Staff. MacAllister was named to the NABC's 2019 Under Armour 30-Under-30 Team, a group selected as 30 of the most outstanding men's college basketball coaches under the age of 30.

The Red Raiders recorded the program's winningest season in program history by going 31-7 in the 2018-19 season that included going 5-1 in the NCAA Tournament. Tech advanced to the program's first Final Four after earning wins over Northern Kentucky, Buffalo, Michigan and Gonzaga before advancing to the national championship game with a 61-51 win over Michigan State in the Final Four semifinal in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prior to the tournament run, the Red Raiders won the program's first regular-season Big 12 title by going 14-4 in conference play.

MacAllister comes to Lubbock after working for some of the nation’s premier basketball coaches, with his most recent stop being at Creighton, where he had a multitude of responsibilities under head coach Greg McDermott. He oversaw all aspects of the team’s film and video needs, opponent scouting reports and breakdown of game and practice film to create individual and team edits for the Bluejay team and staff.

At Creighton, MacAllister saw his 2016 squad reach the NIT quarterfinals, and then helped the Bluejays back that up with consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances in 2017 and 2018.

Before going to Creighton, he worked at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., where he worked as an assistant to Jason Zimmerman for one season. The Eagles won at No. 1 Wisconsin-Stevens Point to reach the Division III Elite Eight before falling to eventual national champion Wisconsin-Whitewater. While at Emory, he worked with a pair of All-American post players.

MacAllister has seen success at every stop on his journey through collegiate basketball. He started as a student-assistant for three seasons (2010-11 through 2012-13) at Murray State, where he was part of a program that manufactured an overall record of 75-21, including an incredible 31-2 campaign during the 2011-12 season that saw the Racers capture both the OVC regular season and conference tournament titles. That squad earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament where it advanced to the round of 32.

One of the players MacAllister worked with while at Murray State was All-American Isaiah Canaan, the 34th pick in the 2013 NBA Draft (Houston Rockets).

A native of Corcoran, Calif., MacAllister went to Logan County High School in Russellville, Ky., where he played basketball and football. MacAllister earned his Bachelor of Arts from Murray State in Spanish and holds a Master of Science in Leadership from Creighton.

MacAllister also served as a Security Forces Staff Sergeant in the US Air National Guard from 2007-2013. While deployed at the Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan, he was the head coach of the base's first-ever basketball team (2009-10) that played a number of contests against teams throughout that country.

Overall, MacAllister has appeared in five NCAA Tournaments, worked with four All-Americans and seen three players selected in the NBA Draft—Canaan in 2013, Creighton’s Justin Patton in 2017 and Khyri Thomas in 2018.

MacAllister and his wife, Ashley, got married in 2014. Most recently, Ashley was the head rifle coach at Nebraska, and coached Puerto Rico in the 2016 Olympics. The couple has one son, Ezekiel, who was born in September of 2017.