Ricky Moore became an assistant men’s basketball coach for North Carolina A&T on June 29, 2023, as announced by head men’s basketball coach Monté Ross. Moore will coach the Aggies’ forwards/wings, scout and recruit. Moore brings to Aggieland a successful professional basketball career and NCAA national championship experience as a player and an assistant coach.
Moore came to Aggieland after spending two seasons as the head coach at Northwest Cabarrus High School in Kannapolis, N.C. In two seasons with the Trojans boys basketball program, Moore posted a 26-24 (.520) record overall and an 18-11 mark in the South Piedmont Class 3A Conference. In 2022-23, Moore led the Trojans to the third round of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) 3A playoffs before losing to defending 3A state champion West Charlotte.
Before coaching at Northwest Cabarrus, Moore spent some time coaching on the AAU circuit after spending six seasons (2012-18) at his alma mater, UConn. During his first season at UConn in 2012-13, Moore served as the men’s basketball program’s assistant director of basketball administration. He was promoted to the assistant coach position the following season. Led by the guard play of Shabazz Napier, Moore helped the Huskies win the 2014 national championship.
The following year brought Division I transfer and McDonald’s All-American Rodney Purvis to the program, who scored 845 points in three seasons as a Huskie. The Huskies made the 2015 American Athletic Conference (AAC) tournament championship game before losing to SMU.
After an 11-year professional basketball career that included stops in Austria, Ukraine, Sweden, Turkey and Germany, and domestic stops in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) and the NBA Developmental League (NBDL), Moore started his coaching career at Dartmouth College in 2010 before coming back to UConn in 2012. Before starting his professional basketball career, Moore co-captained UConn’s national championship team in 1999, the program’s first in school history.
During his four seasons (1995-99) in Storrs, Conn., the Huskies went 114-24 overall and 55-17 in the Big East. Also, over that span, the Huskies won three Big East regular-season and tournament championships, and they reached the NCAA Sweet 16 in 1996 and the NCAA Elite Eight in 1998 before winning the national title in ‘99.
Moore made the Final Four and West Regional all-tournament teams, and Basketball News Magazine named him national defensive player of the year in 1999. He also made UConn’s all-century team in 2001.
A native of Augusta, Ga., Moore had an All-America high school career at Westside High School.
