Men's Basketball
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- Assistant Coach
Jimmie Foster is in his first season as an assistant coach at Missouri, bringing more than 15 years of Division I coaching experience and a proven track record of player development and program building to the Tigers.
Foster arrives at Mizzou after spending the 2025-26 campaign at Colorado State. A member of Ali Farokhmanesh’s inaugural staff, he helped the Rams earn a bid to the NIT, while accumulating 21 wins – just the third time in school history a first-year staff eclipsed 20 victories.
Prior to his time at Colorado State, Foster spent 10 seasons building Bradley into a perennial contender in the Missouri Valley Conference, including his final two as associate head coach.
Foster helped turn around a program that won only five games in 2015-16 into a three-time conference champion, including the first back-to-back titles in school history. The Braves captured their first MVC Tournament crown in 31 years in 2019 before repeating the feat the next season and qualifying for the NCAA Tournament in consecutive years for the first time since 1954 and 1955. He then helped the team to a regular-season crown in 2023 to cap the team’s trio of championships.
Working closely with the team’s frontcourt players at Bradley, Foster helped mentor two players that played in the NBA in 2025-26 in Malevy Leons (Golden State) and Jayson Kent (Portland). Overall, he worked with 11 all-conference players at BU that earned the distinction a combined 18 times, a two-time Defensive Player of the Year, one Sixth Man of the Year and six selections to the conference’s Most Improved Team.
Before his time with Bradley, Foster spent five seasons as an assistant coach at Green Bay from 2010 to 2015. He helped the Phoenix compile 95 during his tenure, culminating with consecutive 24-win seasons in 2013-14 and 2014-15, including the 2014 Horizon League Championship.
Foster helped mentor three NBA signees during his time with at Green Bay. The 2014 Horizon League Defensive Player of the Year, Alec Brown was a second-round selection by the Phoenix Suns, while Keifer Sykes (Indiana) and Alfonzo McKinnie (Toronto, Golden State, Cleveland and Los Angeles Lakers) played in the NBA after their time at Green Bay.
Foster’s coaching resume also includes stops at North Dakota and Kirkwood Community College, where he helped lead the Eagles to a 60-10 record over two seasons, including a national runner-up finish in 2009.
A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Foster was a standout player at Kirkwood before finishing his collegiate career at South Dakota. He earned All-America honors with the Eagles and was a two-time all-conference selection with the Coyotes, where he was also named the league’s Newcomer of the Year. He earned his bachelor’s degree in recreation from South Dakota in 2002.
Foster and his wife, Sulama, have two children – Samiyah Jae and Jaide Skye.
