Truman Moore - Men's Basketball Coach

Truman Moore

Title:
Assistant Coach/Director of Recruiting
Email:
tmoore87@utm.edu

Truman Moore is in his second season as an assistant coach with the University of Tennessee at Martin men's basketball program in 2025-26. He was promoted to director of recruiting in August 2025.

Moore came to UT Martin after serving as an assistant coach under current Skyhawk head coach Jeremy Shulman at Eastern Florida State in 2023-24. Moore was also on the McNeese staff as video coordinator in 2021-22 after playing one season for the Cowboys.

Last season, UT Martin featured 16 newcomers, which were tied with California, IU Indy and Louisville for the most in NCAA Division I men’s basketball in 2024-25. The Skyhawks also touted the most international players (12) in the NCAA Division I ranks, which led to national attention when NCAA.com profiled UT Martin in a feature story as part of World Basketball Day on Dec. 21.

Navigating the entire season without a single minute of playing time from a returner, the Skyhawks won their first-round matchup in the Ohio Valley Conference Championship tournament, posting 14 victories against a brutal schedule that included five postseason participants (three of which took part in the NCAA Tournament) and nine games against eventual 20-win teams. UT Martin went 3-1 against the OVC regular season champion (1-1 against Southeast Missouri) and tournament champion (2-0 against SIUE) while also defeating CollegeBasketballInsider.com champion Illinois State. In addition to NCAA Tournament participant SIUE, the Skyhawks also recorded sweeps over OVC rivals Western Illinois, Eastern Illinois and Southern Indiana.

UT Martin wound up ranking in the top-20 in NCAA Division I men's basketball in offensive rebounding per game (13.73, 12^th), bench points per game (29.73, 17^th), rebounds per game (39.42, 19^th) and three-point field goal attempts per game (28.8, 20^th) in 2024-25. The Skyhawks also topped the OVC in three-point field goals made (9.1 per contest) and offensive rebounding (13.1 per outing) in league play.

A Gilbert, Ariz. native, Moore was part of a Titan program that dialed up a 27-5 overall record and a 14-2 mark in conference play, which was good enough for a Citrus Conference championship. He coached four all-conference recipients, including NJCAA Division I first team All-American and Florida College System Activities Association Player of the Year Owen Aquino.

Moore spent the 2022-23 campaign as a graduate assistant at Utah Valley, members of the Western Athletic Conference located in Orem, Utah. He was on staff for the Wolverines’ historic run in 2022-23 under head coach and two-time NBA champion Mark Madsen as Utah Valley went 28-9, won the Western Athletic Conference outright regular season championship and advanced all the way to NIT Final Four. The 28 victories and 15 WAC wins (against just three losses) were both school records. A post player during his collegiate days, Moore worked closely with center Aziz Bandaogo, who was WAC Newcomer of the Year, WAC Defensive Player of the Year and a first-team All-WAC honoree.

Moore’s one season as McNeese’s video coordinator came two years after he logged 29 games on the hardwood for former Skyhawk head coach Heath Schroyer in 2019-20. Moore transferred to McNeese after two seasons at Snow College, a junior college located in Ephraim, Utah. In his final season as a Badger, he was an All-Scenic West Athletic Conference first teamer and an Academic All-American under head coach Robert Nielson, averaging 11.8 points, 7.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.5 blocks over 32 contests. He helped Snow post a 26-7 record, claim its first regular season conference championship since 1970, win the Region 18 tournament and advance to the NJCAA Tournament in 2018-19.

A three-time all-state honoree who was named by USA Today as the No. 13 player in the state of Arizona coming out of Gilbert High School, Moore originally signed with Utah Valley but elected to take part in a two-year mission trip to Canada.

Moore graduated from McNeese with a bachelor’s degree in mass communication in 2021. He is married to his wife Averi and the couple had their first child in October 2024.