Achoki Moikobu - Men's Basketball Coach

Achoki Moikobu

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
amoikobu@ttu.edu

Achoki Moikobu has helped lead Texas Tech to a 51-20 record and two trips to the NCAA Tournament as an assistant coach for Grant McCasland. Moikobu and the Red Raiders advanced to the Elite 8 in his second season, finishing the year with a 28-9 overall record along with going 15-5 in Big 12 play. The team was in the AP Top 10 for the final five weeks of the season and finished the year with the third most wins in program history.

Prior to Texas Tech, Moikobu was an assistant coach for McCasland at North Texas for one season, helping the Mean Green establish a new program record by going 31-7 and completing the 2022-23 season by knocking off UAB to secure the NIT title.

In the 2023-24 season, he helped to lead the Red Raiders to the 2024 NCAA Tournament and a 23-win season in his first year. Tech finished tied for third in the Big 12 standings and advanced to the semifinals of the 2024 Big 12 Championship. Along with team success in his second season, Moikobu helped develop JT Toppin, Darrion Williams and Chance McMillian who each received multiple 2024-25 postseason honors. Toppin earned all-America honors along with being named the Big 12 Player of the Year, Big 12 Newcomer of the Year and to the All-Big 12 First Team. Williams earned All-Big 12 First Team and McMillian was a second team selection. The team was dynamic throughout the season, establishing a new program record with 371 made 3-pointers and averaging 80.9 points per game while limiting opponents to only 68.5. Tech went 15-3 on its home court during the season and set program record with an 8-2 road record.

Moikobu joined the Red Raider program after prior collegiate experience at UNT, Drake and Grand Canyon University. At Drake, Moikobu helped lead the Bulldogs to a 13-5 Missouri Valley Conference record and a MVC Tournament title game appearance. Prior to Drake, Moikobu spent one season under Bryce Drew at Grand Canyon in 2020-21 as the Director of Recruiting.

The Mean Green led the nation by limiting opponents to only 55.8 points per game in his lone season at UNT, were sixth nationally by holding teams to 39.1 percent shooting, and ran off postseason victories over Alcorn State, Sam Houston, Oklahoma State and Wisconsin before the 68-61 win over UAB for the championship.

He helped assemble a roster that transformed GCU from a 13-17 record to 17-7 and claim a Western Athletic Conference regular season league title. Grand Canyon then won the 2021 WAC Tournament championship and earned its first Division I NCAA Tournament berth. With Moikobu on staff in 2020-21, GCU featured the nation's second-best field goal percentage defense (37.6 percent) and the nation's 15th-best offensive field goal percentage (49.2 percent). Moikobu also worked six seasons as a postgraduate head coach at Sunrise Christian Academy in Bel Air, Kansas. At Sunrise, he coached 28 future Division I players.

“Coach AC has great experience as a head coach in prep school and a great assistant coach for us,” McCasland said of Moikobu. “He does a great job of developing and building relationships. He is as authentic as it gets. I think he has a tremendous overall perspective of the game and is really special in individual workouts because he understands how to get the best out of players on a daily basis.”

A Seattle, Washington native, Moikobu played at Fort Hays State where he graduated in 2015. In his two seasons at Fort Hays State, he made 91 career 3-pointers and shot 47.7 percent from deep.