College of Coastal Georgia Men's Basketball

Watkins had been the team's top assistant coach the previous two seasons under longtime head coach Gerald Cox who retired following the 2014 season after 32 years with the progam and 40 years coaching in the collegiate ranks. Watkins played here under Cox from 1990-92 before going on to finish his collegiate career at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn. When he returned to Coastal Georgia two years ago to become an assistant coach, Watkins became the first former player to work under Cox as a paid assistant. Watkins took the head position with 18 years of coaching experience. He began his coaching career in 1995 at Pineville (Ky.) High before returning to Lincoln Memorial as a graduate assistant for two years from 1997-1999. He spent the 1999-2000 season as the head boys and girls coach at J. Frank White Academy, also in Harrogate, before returning to the college ranks at Wabash Valley Junior College, where he was an assistant for two seasons and helped the team to the National Junior College Athletic Association championship in 2001 with a 36-1 record before it finished 33-3 the following year while reaching the national semifinals. Watkins then moved to Southern Indiana, where he worked as an assistant for two seasons, helping the team to a runner-up finish in the NCAA Division II national tournament in 2004. He would spend one season as an assistant at both Mount Healthy High in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, before becoming an administrator and head of player development at Evansville Basketball Academy in Evansville, Ind., where he worked from 2006 to 2012 before returning to Coastal Georgia. While employed by the academy, Watkins also coached the Indiana S.W.I.S.H. AAU Under-17 team which posted a 105-53 record and produced several collegiate players in his time with the team. Tommy Yancey accepted the job as the Coastal Georgia mens basketball assistant coach prior to the 2015-16 school year. Yancey joined the Mariners after having spent time as both a head coach and assistant at several other schools in the high school and collegiate ranks. Before coming to Coastal Georgia, Yancey coached at Grace Christian Academy in Bainbridge where he was head boys and girls basketball coach along with serving as the schools athletic director. In the 2013-14 season, he guided both teams to their respective state tournaments, marking the first time in school history both earned state berths in the same season. Prior to that, Yancey was a men's assistant coach for three seasons at St. Johns River State College in Florida, where the team had two of its best seasons record-wise since the 1960s. Before going to St. Johns, he was the head boys coach for one season at Schley County in Ellaville, leading his team there to its second-best record in school history at the time. Yancey began his coaching career at Brookstone High in Columbus under Robert Moore, who was his coach when he played in Georgias junior college ranks at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton. Yancey finished his degree in social sciences at Troy University in 2006. He played college basketball at both ABAC and Georgia Southwestern in Americus. He helped Georgia Southwestern to the NAIA national tournament in the 2005 season when the school competed in the Southern States Athletic Conference. A native of Loganville, Yancey graduated from Piedmont Academy, where he was an all-state basketball player while also playing football and baseball.  

Tim MacAllister was named the third men's basketball head coach at the College of Coastal Georgia in April of 2025, with the 2025-26 season being his first at the helm of Mariners Basketball.  MacAllister has appeared in six NCAA Tournaments during his tenure, worked with four All-Americans and has worked with multiple players drafted into the NBA -- 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 and Jahmi'us Ramsey in 2020. Prior to CCGA, MacAllister spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. During the 2024-25 season with the Hilltoppers, MacAllister coached four All-CUSA players including Don McHenry who was named All-CUSA Second Team. Western Kentucky finished the season 17-15, dropping their first round match-up of the C-USA Tournament to Florida International. The season prior, Western Kentucky won the C-USA Conference Tournament, earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament where they fell in the round of 64 to Marquette. The Corcoran, Calif. native 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. The 2018-2019 season entailed Texas Tech’s first Big 12 regular-season championship, Final Four appearance and the Red Raiders’ winningest season ever with a 31-7 record.   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.   He spent three seasons at Creighton, where he assisted in leading the Bluejays to an NIT quarterfinal appearance in 2016, followed by consecutive NCAA Tournament trips in 2017 and 2018. His time at Creighton overlapped with Lutz for all three seasons.   MacAllister has been a vital asset to many successful programs at every stop leading up to his current role. He began as a student assistant to a Murray State team that won both the OVC regular-season and tournament championships in 2011-12 with an incredible 31-2 record.   Prior to going to Creighton and Texas Tech, he coached at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., where he worked as an assistant 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.   Before his current role, MacAllister held the position of assistant coach at Georgia Southern for three seasons.   Originally from Corcoran, California, and born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, MacAllister, however, 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 also served in the Air National Guard between 2007 and 2013, including a stint overseas in Kyrgyzstan. He finished his career as a staff sergeant in security forces.   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 two children: son, Ezekiel, and daughter, Adeline.   The Tim MacAllister File PERSONAL Born: Grand Forks, North Dakota Hometown: Corcoran, California College: Murray State; Creighton Wife: Ashley Children: Ezekiel, Adeline   COACHING CAREER 2010-13: Murray State (student assistant) 2013-14: Emory (assistant coach) 2015-17: Creighton (video coordinator) 2017-20: Texas Tech (Chief of Staff) 2020-23: Georgia Southern (assistant coach) 2023-25: Western Kentucky (assistant coach) 2025-present: Coastal Georgia (head coach)

Adam Sizemore joins the College of Coastal Georgia men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach for the 2025-26 season. He previously served as Director of Player Development at the University of South Alabama for the past 2 seasons, where he helped guide the Jaguars to a regular season championship in 2025. During his time at South Alabama, the program also achieved its highest-ever team GPA and led the nation in community service hours during the 2024-25 season. Sizemore worked closely with All-Conference standouts Barry Dunning (1st Team) and Myles Corey (3rd Team). A former four-year player for the Jaguars, Sizemore ranks 6th in all-time wins in program history, also making a conference championship appearance in 2023. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Sports Management and a master’s degree in Educational Leadership for Higher Education.