Men's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- Tweety_Carter@Baylor.edu
- Phone:
- 3096
Tweety Carter was named Baylor Men’s Basketball Director of Player Development on March 29, 2022, spending two seasons in that role, before being promoted to an assistant coach in May of 2024.
Carter is entering his fifth season on staff with the Bears in 2026-27. The first McDonalds All-American in program history, Carter helped the Bears to three-straight 20-win seasons and a No. 3 seed in two of the last four NCAA Tournaments. Additionally, the Bears entered 2025-26 as one of just two conference schools with six-straight seasons of double-digit Big 12 wins. In his short stint, he has helped mentor four top-21 picks (VJ Edgecombe, 3rd overall, Keyonte George, 16th overall, Ja’Kobe Walter, 19th overall and Yves Missi, 21st overall).
Carter has aided the Bears in becoming the only school in the nation with four-straight top-19 picks, four-straight top-3 seeds in the NCAA Tournament and one of three schools to win at least one game in each of the last six NCAA Tournaments.
In his fourth season with BU, Carter and the Bears made way to the second-annual 2026 College Basketball Crown semifinals for its 14th-consecutive postseason. Baylor is one of five teams to appear in every postseason since 2012, joining Gonzaga, Kansas, Michigan State, and Saint Mary’s. The season was highlighted by elite performances from duo Tounde Yessoufou and Cameron Carr, who both broke freshman and sophomore class program records in points. In the regular season, Baylor picked up key road wins at Oklahoma State, West Virginia and UCF. BU is the only visiting team to have 10 straight road wins in the historic Gallagher-Iba Arena history in Stillwater. In Morgantown, the Bears snapped West Virginia’s 16-home game winning streak, what was the longest home winning streak in the Big 12 dating back to the 2024-25 season. In Orlando, BU took down UCF with clutch free throws made by Obi Agbim in the final seconds.
In 2024-25, Carter assisted the Bears to a school-record sixth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, becoming one of only eight teams to qualify for nine of the last 10 tournaments. BU's run to the NCAA Tournament marked 13-straight postseason appearances, the fifth-longest active streak in the nation. Ranked as high as No. 8, Baylor extended its streak of being ranked in the top 10 for six straight years, a distinction shared only with Duke, Gonzaga, Kentucky, and Kansas. Additionally, VJ Edgecombe earned both the Big 12 preseason and postseason Freshman of the Year honors, marking the third straight year a Baylor player has achieved this, a first in Big 12 history.
Carter returned to Baylor after a 12-year career in professional basketball, most recently playing for Start Lublin of the Polish Basketball League in 2021-22. He began his professional career with the Oklahoma City Thunder’s G-League affiliate, then gained overseas experience in Israel, Latvia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Lithuania, Poland, Greece and Portugal.
Carter played 131 games with 89 starts for Scott Drew from 2006-10. He led the Bears to an Elite Eight appearance in his senior season, averaging 15.0 points and a Big 12-leading 5.9 assists per contest. During his time overseas, Carter had eight seasons averaging double-figure scoring, including a career-best 20.7 points per game with Bnei Hasharon in Israel in 2011-12.
A 2010 Baylor graduate, Carter and his wife Brittney have four children - Kiylah, Michael, Alani and Yilianna.
