COACHING STAFF

Ken Deweese | Assistant Coach

Ken Deweese joined the Colorado State men's basketball staff in June of 2024. DeWeese traded in Wyoming's brown and gold for CSU's preferred green and gold.

DeWeese spent the past four years at Wyoming, most recently as the associate head coach. At Wyoming, he helped the Cowboys earn their first at-large NCAA Tournament bid in 20 years when the Cowboys reached the 2022 tournament with a 25-9 record. It was the program's most wins since 1951-52.

While in Laramie he coached six All-Mountain West honorees and the 2021 Freshman of the Year Marcus Williams.

Prior to his time in Laramie, DeWeese was on staff at Northern Colorado from 2016-20. He helped the Bears to the program's first postseason title winning the CIT in 2018 as the team won a program-best 26 games. Over his final three years in Greeley, the program won a three-year best mark of 69 games and finished inside the top 100 of the NET ratings his final season.

DeWeese mentored Big Sky Player of the Year Jordan Davis, three-time Defensive Player of the Year Johan Radabaugh, Sixth Man of the Year Kai Edwards and Freshman of the Year Bodie Hume over his career.

He spent time at UTEP before he arrived in Greeley. DeWeese helped guide UTEP to over 120 wins, including three seasons of 22 wins or more and two NIT appearances. Known for his recruiting at UTEP, DeWeese signed 26 players that were on Conference USA commissioner's Honor Roll selections.

In his first year as an assistant at El Paso, he recruited four student-athletes that went on to earn All-Conference USA honors, including C-USA Defensive Player of the Year. He recruited a consensus national Top 100 recruit, Vincent Hunter. Hunter went on to be C-USA Freshman of the Year in 2013-14 and First Team All-Conference in 2014-15. His 2013 recruiting class was ranked in the Top 25 by numerous media outlets.

DeWeese coached Vince Hunter of the Memphis Grizzlies, Former Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year Julian Washburn of the Memphis Grizzlies and Julyan Stone, who played for the Nuggets, Raptors and Hornets. Two of his players also played in the NFL in Cederik Lang of the Eagles and Aaron Jones of the Packers.

In back-to-back years, DeWeese was ranked as the top assistant in C-USA by NextUpRecruits.com and was the second-ranked assistant in 2013-14 and '14-'15.In six seasons at UTEP, the Miners defeated nationally ranked opponents Oregon, Nebraska, Michigan, Texas Tech, New Mexico State, Auburn, Memphis, Tennessee, Xavier and Washington State.

Before UTEP, DeWeese spent a season at Utah Valley and four seasons at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. With the Wolverines at Utah Valley, he was in charge of recruiting the 2010 recruiting class, which led to back-to-back winning seasons for UVU, going 19-11 and 20-12 after finishing 12-18 in 2009-10.

As an assistant at Mary Hardin-Baylor (2005-09) under his father Ken DeWeese, the Crusaders finished with an 85-27 (.758) in his four seasons and clinched two NCAA (Division III) tournament berths. DeWeese was solely responsible for the recruitment of four student-athletes that helped UMHB reach the 2013 D3 National Championship game.

The many other accolades that DeWeese helped Hardin-Baylor receive were, No. 12 National Ranking in the Top 25 poll, leading all of Division III in field goal percentage, four American Southwest Conference tournament appearances and two division titles. His father has over 800 wins in his career as the head coach.

DeWeese got his start in the coaching ranks at Idaho in 2005 as the Director of Basketball Operations.

Ken and his wife Natalie have three children, Emery, Ellison and Dane.

Tim Shelton | Assistant Coach

Tim Shelton joined the Colorado State men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach in June of 2023. The former San Diego State Aztec player came to Fort Collins after spending a season at Oregon State.

Shelton's first year on staff at CSU saw the Rams reach its highest ranking in program history and the team earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament. The Rams picked up their first win in the NCAA Tournament in 12 years as well defeating Virginia in the First Four.

In his lone season at Oregon State, he coached one of the youngest teams in the nation at Oregon State. In doing so Jordan Pope earned Pac 12 All-Freshman team honors.

Shelton brings with him plenty of knowledge about the Mountain West spending four years on staff at Fresno State plus six on staff at San Diego State on top of his four years as a player at SDSU.

At Fresno State, Shelton was the team’s assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. He helped lead the team to two 23-win campaigns. Along with being named an Under Armour 30-under-30 honoree by the National Association of Basketball (NABC) in 2018.

Following his player career at San Diego State, he joined the staff as a graduate manager before moving into the roles of director of player development (2013-17) and assistant coach (2017-18). While on staff with the Aztecs he helped the team advance to four NCAA Tournaments, including the 2014 Sweet 16 and one NIT appearance advancing to the semifinals that season.

In his 11 years at San Diego State as a player and member of the staff he helped win 281 games, earn seven Mountain West titles and advance to 10 postseason tournaments, including seven NCAA Tournaments.

As a player, he was a Mountain West All-Defensive Team honoree as a senior.  He comes from a pedigree of basketball with his dad, Lonnie, winning an NBA Championship with the Seattle Supersonics in 1979 after playing for Oregon State in college.

Shelton earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from San Diego State in history and educational leadership, respectively.

Landry Moffett | Director of Men's Basketball Operations

Anthony Holland | Graduate Assistant

Anthony Holland came to CSU after finishing his playing career at Washington in May of 2024.

He appeared in 31 of the team's 32 games last season. The only game he missed was when the Huskies faced the Rams in Las Vegas.

Holland played for four seasons at Fresno State before using his COVID year in Seattle. He played in 113 games as a Bulldog becoming a regular starter his sophomore season averaging 6.6 points and 5.0 rebounds for his career.

Lucas Stieber | Graduate Assistant

Stieber joined the Rams in May of 2024. He came to Fort Collins after having spent his final two seasons at Gardner Webb, including playing against CSU in the 2022-23 season opener.

The Green Bay, Wisconsin native started his career at Wisconsin-Green Bay before heading south to Gardner Webb. The guard started 78 of the 116 games he played in, including all 32 last season for GWU. He averaged 5.0 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.0 assists for his career.