Achoki Moikobu - Men's Basketball Coach - University of North Texas Athletics

Achoki Moikobu

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
Achoki.Molkobu@unt.edu
Phone:
940-565-3654

Achoki Moikobu joined the North Texas men's basketball staff as an assistant coach in April of 2022.

Moikobu, who is well-known as "AC," helped lead the Mean Green to a program record 31 wins in his first season in Denton and win the 2023 NIT championship. North Texas won 16 league games, which tied the single season program record for league wins. UNT had the nation's No. 1 scoring defense holding opponents to just 55.8 points per game. Moikobu helped coach UNT's Tylor Perry to the 2023 C-USA Player of the Year honor as well as NIT Most Outstanding Player award. In addition to Perry, four other Mean Green players earned all-conference honors in 2022-23 including Kai Huntsberry who was named C-USA Newcomer of the Year.

Moikobu joined the Mean Green from Drake where he helped guide the Bulldogs to a 25-win season and a NCAA national postseason tournament victory in the 2022 College Basketball Invitational.

At Drake, Moikobu helped lead the Bulldogs to a 13-5 Missouri Valley Conference record and a MVC Tournament title game appearance. Five Drake men's basketball student-athletes earned 13 All-MVC and postseason honors including Tucker DeVries who was named named the league's Freshman of the Year. Moikobu helped coach DeVries to score 502 points. He became the first Drake freshman to score 500+ points in a season.

Prior to Drake, Moikobu spent one season under Bryce Drew at Grand Canyon in 2020-21 as the Director of Recruiting. 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.

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 guided three Lopes to six All-WAC honors including Asbjorn Midtgaard who was the WAC Newcomer of the Year.

Before his time at Grand Canyon, Moikobu spent six seasons as a postgraduate head coach at Sunrise Christian Academy in Bel Air, Kansas. At Sunrise, he coached 28 future Division I players.

Moikobu who is a Seattle native, played his college basketball at Fort Hays State and graduated in 2015. In his two seasons at Fort Hays State, he made 91 career 3-pointers and shot 47.7 percent from deep.