North Carolina State University Athletics
Wes Moore Included on Late Season Watch List for 2021 Naismith Coach of the Year
2/17/2021 12:01:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Wolfpack head coach was semifinalist for award in 2019 and 2020
ATLANTA – NC State women's basketball head coach Wes Moore is one of 15 candidates featured on the late season watch list for the 2021 Werner Ladder Naismith Trophy Women's Coach of the Year Award.
The list, which was released by the Atlanta Tipoff Club on Wednesday, will be narrowed down to 10 semifinalists on March 3 and four finalists on March 18. The winner will be announced on April 3.
Moore was a finalist for the national award in 2019 and a semifinalist in 2020.
Moore continues to maintain a level of excellence that has become familiar to the NC State women's basketball program under his guidance. He has led his 2020-21 squad to a 13-2 overall record and a 8-2 mark against ACC competition. The Wolfpack currently stands at second place in the Atlantic Coast Conference, a league that is consistently among the best in NCAA Division I women's basketball.
Perhaps most impressively, Moore has authored two victories against top-ranked teams in 2020-21 - at South Carolina on Dec. 3 and at Louisville on Feb. 1. He is not only the first coach in program history to accomplish that feat twice in a season, but his team also became just the third NCAA Division I women's basketball team in the last 20 seasons to play the AP No. 1 team twice in one year and come away with wins in both contests.
His team has spent every week of the season ranked in the national top 10 and the last 11 weeks in the top five. Currently ranked fourth in the Associated Press Top 25, his Wolfpack squad tied its best ranking in program history a month ago when it was ranked second on Jan. 17 and Jan. 24. It was NC State's first No. 2 ranking since the 1990-91 campaign.
In the midst of his eighth season at NC State, Moore has put together a 181-64 (.739) record and an 85-39 (.685) clip while serving as the leader of the Pack. He owns 739 career wins, which ranks eighth among active NCAA Division I women's basketball coaches.
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The list, which was released by the Atlanta Tipoff Club on Wednesday, will be narrowed down to 10 semifinalists on March 3 and four finalists on March 18. The winner will be announced on April 3.
Moore was a finalist for the national award in 2019 and a semifinalist in 2020.
Moore continues to maintain a level of excellence that has become familiar to the NC State women's basketball program under his guidance. He has led his 2020-21 squad to a 13-2 overall record and a 8-2 mark against ACC competition. The Wolfpack currently stands at second place in the Atlantic Coast Conference, a league that is consistently among the best in NCAA Division I women's basketball.
Perhaps most impressively, Moore has authored two victories against top-ranked teams in 2020-21 - at South Carolina on Dec. 3 and at Louisville on Feb. 1. He is not only the first coach in program history to accomplish that feat twice in a season, but his team also became just the third NCAA Division I women's basketball team in the last 20 seasons to play the AP No. 1 team twice in one year and come away with wins in both contests.
His team has spent every week of the season ranked in the national top 10 and the last 11 weeks in the top five. Currently ranked fourth in the Associated Press Top 25, his Wolfpack squad tied its best ranking in program history a month ago when it was ranked second on Jan. 17 and Jan. 24. It was NC State's first No. 2 ranking since the 1990-91 campaign.
In the midst of his eighth season at NC State, Moore has put together a 181-64 (.739) record and an 85-39 (.685) clip while serving as the leader of the Pack. He owns 739 career wins, which ranks eighth among active NCAA Division I women's basketball coaches.
#GoPack | @PackWomensBball
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