Georgia Southern University Athletics

Tim MacAllister is in his third season on the Georgia Southern coaching staff.

Defense has been the Eagles' calling card in MacAllister's first two years on the staff. Georgia Southern allowed 65.6 points a game in 2021-22, the eighth-best scoring defense in school history, and Eagle opponents shot 41 percent from the field, which ranked third in the Sun Belt and was the second-best field goal percentage defense in a season at Georgia Southern. The Eagles have held their opponent under 60 points in 14 contests and under 40 percent shooting in 22 games.

The Eagles ranked fourth in the Sun Belt in scoring defense, first in turnovers forced and third in steals in his first campaign. Georgia Southern returned just five lettermen (two scholarship) to the 2020-21 roster, which was tied for the fourth least in the country, and the Eagles' nine newcomers were tied for the fourth-most in the country. 

MacAllister came to Statesboro from Texas Tech, where he served as the program’s Chief of Staff and along with Eagle head coach Brian Burg, helped lead the Red Raiders to the 2019 NCAA National Championship final and to the Big 12 Conference regular-season championship. 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.

MacAllister has appeared in five NCAA Tournaments during his career, worked with four All-Americans and seen four players selected in the NBA Draft — Murray State’s Isaiah Canaan in 2013, Creighton’s Justin Patton in 2017, Khyri Thomas in 2018 and Texas Tech’s Jarrett Culver in 2019. He spent three seasons at Creighton, where he helped the Bluejays to an NIT in 2016, followed by consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances in 2017 and 2018.

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 basketball team (2009-10), which played a number of contests against teams throughout that country. 

He served as a student assistant at Murray State (2010-13) and spent a season at Emory University in Atlanta, where he worked as an assistant to Jason Zimmerman. 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.

A native of Corcoran, California, MacAllister went to Logan County High School in Russellville, Kentucky, where he played basketball and football. MacAllister earned his Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Murray State and holds a Master of Science in Leadership from Creighton.
 
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 resides in Statesboro with their son, Ezekiel, and daughter, Adeline.