Chris Moore enters his third year as an assistant coach at Southeast Missouri in 2016-17.
A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Moore has more than 20 years of experience and came to Southeast after coaching five years at Wright State University. He is also well acquainted with the Ohio Valley Conference, having spent four seasons at Morehead State. Over the last 17 years, Moore has coached 18 all-conference performers, three freshmen of the year honorees, eleven 1,000-point scorers and 26 players who have gone on to play professionally.
During his time on WSU’s coaching staff, the Raiders always ranked among the top 100 teams nationally in defensive field goal percentage. From 2010-15, WSU averaged 17.5 wins per season and made two postseason appearances. In 2012-13 and 2013-14, Moore helped lead WSU to an overall record of 44-28 and 20-12 mark in the Horizon League, as both of those teams reached the conference title game. It was the first time in the school’s NCAA Division I history that the Raiders made back-to-back postseason appearances. While at WSU, Moore worked with several talented players, including Vaughn Duggins and Julius Mays, both All-Horizon League performers.
Prior to WSU, Moore was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Morehead State from 2006-10. MSU posted a total of 71 victories (18 per season) and registered back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time in school history with Moore on its staff. His final two seasons at MSU were even more memorable as the Eagles advanced to postseason play in consecutive years, another first for the program. MSU picked up an OVC Tournament championship and won a game in the NCAA Tournament along the way.
As recruiting coordinator at MSU, Moore’s efforts resulted in two classes being ranked in the nation’s top 40. Clark Francis’ Hoop Scoop tabbed MSU’s 2007 class 31st and 2008 class 34th nationally. Both of those classes were ranked No. 1 in the OVC. In 2007, the Eagles’ recruiting class included Kenneth Faried, Leon Buchannan and DeMonte Harper. Faried was the NCAA’s all-time leading rebounder and a first round NBA draft pick in 2011. He, along with Harper, were All-Americans that year, and all three players garnered All-OVC honors.
In addition to his coaching and recruiting duties, Moore served as the team’s academic liaison, helping raise and maintain the basketball team’s grade point average to a 3.0 during his time there.
Before MSU, Moore made stops at Bellarmine University, Indiana University-Southeast and the University of Cincinnati.
At IU-Southeast, Moore worked as an assistant to head coach Walt Corbean in 2002-03. That year, the Grenadiers won a conference championship and advanced to postseason play in the national tournament.
In two seasons at Cincinnati, Moore helped guide the Bearcats women’s program to an overall record of 49-15, an NCAA Tournament berth, WNIT appearance, one Conference USA Tournament title and the program’s first top 25 ranking.
Moore was instrumental in the development of All-Conference USA performers Valerie King, K.B. Sharp and Debbie Merrill. King and Merrill were All-Americans, while both Merrill and Sharp went on to be WNBA draft picks.
In 2012, Moore was invited to participate in the prestigious Villa 7 consortium, which connects the country’s elite assistant basketball coaches in an effort to prepare the next generation of college basketball leaders. Moore has been ranked as one of the top 25 mid-major assistants in the country according to CoachStat.net and Next-Up Recruits named him one of the top 5 assistants in the Horizon League for the 2014-15 season.
He also coached for the Global Sports Academy in Europe each of the last two summers.
He was a three-time letterman at Kentucky State University, earning Academic All-America honors in 1990-91 and serving as team captain his senior year.
Moore earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Kentucky State in 1991 and a master’s degree in sport administration from the University of Louisville in 2000.
Moore has one son, Christian.
