The 2022-23 campaign is the seventh for Robert Guster on the Texas State men's basketball coaching staff. In his role, he primarily works with the bigs and oversees the recruiting areas of the Midwest, West Texas, and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
Guster has been with the Bobcats for its entire recent turnaround alongside head coach Terrence Johnson. He has helped the Bobcats capture back-to-back Sun Belt Conference championships the last two seasons (2021, 2022) and win 39 games overall. In Sun Belt play, the Bobcats went 24-6 in the two years. They also reached the NIT for the first time in program history in 2021-22.
Prior to joining Texas State, Guster was an assistant at UTSA for 10 years. During his tenure with the Roadrunners, Guster assisted with recruiting duties, academics, and scheduling in addition to on-the-floor coaching duties. UTSA also registered the school’s first-ever NCAA postseason victory in any sport captured one league championship, made two conference tournament title game appearances broke 20 school records and had eight players earn all-conference honors with three being tabbed league freshman of the year.
Guster came to UTSA after a two-year stint at Southeast Missouri State in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where he served as an assistant coach under head coach Gary Garner. While at SEMO, he was heavily involved in the Redhawks’ recruiting efforts and also oversaw the program’s academic affairs.
Prior to SEMO, Guster was an assistant coach for fives season at Missouri State-West Plains Community College under head coach Tom Barr from 1999-2004. The Grizzlies posted a 120-36 record during his time at West Plains. Ten of the players that he directly recruited signed to play NCAA Division I basketball.
Top players during Guster’s tenure at West Plains included NJCAA All-Americans Jason Detrick, who played in the Final Four with Oklahoma, Tevoris Thompson, who made a junior college record 29 three-pointers in a two-game span, and Terrell Everett, an All-Big 12 player at Oklahoma.
Also a standout player, Guster was the starting point guard for two seasons at West Plains before moving on to finish his collegiate career as a starter at Missouri-Rolla, now known as Missouri S&T. He helped the Miners post back-to-back winnings seasons while leading the team in assists both seasons and pacing the MIAA Conference in assists-to-turnovers ratio.
Guster is a native of West Monroe, La., and earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Missouri-Rolla in 1999. He received his master’s degree in elementary education from Missouri State in 2002.
He and his wife, Melissa, have one daughter, Alivia, and a son, Shiloh.
