North Carolina State University Athletics
Wes Moore on Late Season Watch List for 2022 Naismith Coach of the Year
2/16/2022 12:08:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Wolfpack head coach was finalist for award in 2021
ATLANTA – NC State women's basketball head coach Wes Moore is one of 15 candidates on the late season watch list for the 2022 Werner Ladder Naismith Women's Coach of the Year Award.
The list released Wednesday will be narrowed down to 10 semifinalists on March 10 and four finalists on March 24. The winner will be announced on April 2.
Moore was a finalist for the national award in 2021 and 2019 and was a semifinalist in 2020.
Moore continues to uphold a level of excellence that has become familiar to the NC State women's basketball program under his guidance. His 2021-22 squad is currently 23-3 overall and 14-1 against ACC competition through a schedule that ranks as one of the toughest in the nation. This year's Wolfpack team has defeated six top-20 foes and has taken on more opponents ranked in the top 25 of the NET (10) than any other team in the country.
His team has spent every week of the season ranked in the national top five, and the Wolfpack owns the longest active AP Top 5 streak in the nation at 30 polls. Currently ranked fourth in the Associated Press Top 25, Moore's Wolfpack squad tied its best ranking in program history earlier this season when it was ranked No. 2 for three weeks in a row.
In the midst of his ninth season at NC State, Moore has put together a 213-68 (.758) record and a 103-40 (.72) ACC clip while serving as the leader of the Pack. He owns 771 career wins, which ranks seventh among active NCAA Division I women's basketball coaches.
Moore has hit a multitude of milestones in 2021-22. On Feb. 3, he reached 100 league wins at NC State, the fourth-fastest ACC coach of all tie to hit that mark. He earned his 200th victory at NC State on Dec. 12, became the 14th active NCAA Division I coach to hit 1,000 career games on Jan. 16 and helped NC State become the first ACC program to 400 league wins on Jan. 6.
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