North Carolina State University Athletics
Wes Moore Named Semifinalist for 2022 Naismith Coach of the Year
3/8/2022 1:20:00 PM | Women's Basketball
ATLANTA – NC State women's basketball head coach Wes Moore has been named one of 10 semifinalists for the 2022 Werner Ladder Naismith Women's Coach of the Year Award, as announced by the Atlanta Tipoff Club on Tuesday.
Moore was a finalist for the national award in 2021 and 2019 and was a semifinalist in 2020. Last year, he was named WBCA National Coach of the Year.
Moore has upheld a level of excellence that has become familiar to Wolfpack women's hoops and has led his 2021-22 squad to one of the best seasons in program history. He most recently guided NC State to its third-straight ACC Tournament title after the team also won the regular-season crown for the first time in 32 years. The sweep marked the first for NC State since the 1984-85 campaign.
NC State is 29-3 on the year under his leadership, with those 29 wins tying as the most in a single season in the program's 48-year history. This year's Wolfpack team has defeated eight top-25 foes, which also ties as a program-best mark.
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 33 polls. Currently ranked third 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 219-68 (.763) record and a 106-40 (.726) ACC clip while serving as the leader of the Pack. He owns 777 career wins, which ranks seventh among active NCAA Division I women's basketball coaches.
Moore has hit a multitude of personal coaching milestones in 2021-22. On Feb. 3, he reached 100 league wins at NC State, the fourth-fastest ACC coach of all time to hit that mark. He also 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.
The semifinalist list will be narrowed down to four finalists on March 24, and this year's winner will be announced on April 2.
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Moore was a finalist for the national award in 2021 and 2019 and was a semifinalist in 2020. Last year, he was named WBCA National Coach of the Year.
Moore has upheld a level of excellence that has become familiar to Wolfpack women's hoops and has led his 2021-22 squad to one of the best seasons in program history. He most recently guided NC State to its third-straight ACC Tournament title after the team also won the regular-season crown for the first time in 32 years. The sweep marked the first for NC State since the 1984-85 campaign.
NC State is 29-3 on the year under his leadership, with those 29 wins tying as the most in a single season in the program's 48-year history. This year's Wolfpack team has defeated eight top-25 foes, which also ties as a program-best mark.
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 33 polls. Currently ranked third 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 219-68 (.763) record and a 106-40 (.726) ACC clip while serving as the leader of the Pack. He owns 777 career wins, which ranks seventh among active NCAA Division I women's basketball coaches.
Moore has hit a multitude of personal coaching milestones in 2021-22. On Feb. 3, he reached 100 league wins at NC State, the fourth-fastest ACC coach of all time to hit that mark. He also 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.
The semifinalist list will be narrowed down to four finalists on March 24, and this year's winner will be announced on April 2.
#GoPack | @PackWomensBball
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