Tim Fuller is back in Columbia, and he’s back for a brand new role.

Missouri basketball announced Monday morning that Fuller has been hired as the program’s first general manager, a role that is becoming increasingly popular among high-major football and basketball programs as universities prepare for the revenue-sharing era.

Fuller was an assistant coach for the Tigers from 2011-15 on the staff of then-head coaches Frank Haith and Kim Anderson.

Since then, Fuller has spent time as an athletics advisor to the president at Harris-Stowe State in St. Louis, before returning to the sidelines as an assistant coach on former Tiger Kim English’s staff at Providence for two seasons.

Over the course of his coaching career, Fuller has worked for the likes of Rick Pitino. He has also worked on

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