CAREER QUICK FACTS:
Head coaching record: 800-250 (.762)
Completed seasons: 34
Winning seasons: 33
Postseason appearances: 28
20-win seasons: 29
25-win seasons: 14
Coach of the Year honors: 14
2021 WBCA National Coach of the Year
2019 Associated Press National Coach of the Year Runner-Up
One of the top head coaches in NCAA women’s basketball, Wes Moore has completed 10 seasons as NC State’s head coach. The 10 seasons of the Moore era have been among the best in 49 years of women’s basketball at NC State.
Since taking over the Wolfpack on April 5, 2013, Moore has posted a 242-81 (.749) record and led NC State to seven NCAA Tournament appearances and postseason invitations each year. He has guided the Pack to a 115-49 (.701) clip in the ACC, a league that consistently ranks among the top conferences in NCAA Division I women’s basketball. Seven of Moore’s 10 seasons have concluded in top-four finishes in the 15-member league. All 10 of his seasons in Raleigh have been winning seasons, and nine have included 20+ victories. He guided his team to four-straight NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 berths (2018, 19, 21, 22), highlighted by the program’s second-ever Elite Eight appearance in 2022.
Moore also led NC State to three-straight ACC Tournament titles for the first time in program history. The team’s win in 2020 was its first conference tournament championship since 1991, and the team repeated in 2021 and 2022.
The Pack is coming off a quest through one of the toughest schedules in the nation in 2022-23. The team’s final NET ranking was No. 17, and the squad also had the second-highest opponent success rating and average opponent NET. NC State earned four wins over NET Top 25 teams, defeating No. 10 Iowa, No. 7 Notre Dame, Louisville and No. 22 North Carolina. The squad ended the 2022-23 campaign with a 20-12 record on its way to qualifying for the NCAA Tournament for a program-best sixth season in a row.
On March 2, 2023, in the first round of the ACC Tournament, Moore earned his 800th career win. He became the fifth active, third-ever ACC and 15th NCAA Division I coach of all time to reach that mark and accomplished it in his 1,048th career game.
Moore’s 2021-22 Wolfpack squad put together one of the most historic seasons in program history that was capped off by an ACC regular season and tournament title sweep and the Pack’s first Elite Eight appearance since 1998. NC State’s league crowns marked the third time in history the team has won both the regular season and the tournament and its first time doing so since 1984-85.
NC State went 17-1 in league action during the 2021-22 regular season, establishing a new program record for ACC wins while winning the league title for the first time since 1990. The Wolfpack went a perfect 9-0 in ACC games played at home.
In total, Moore’s 2021-22 squad posted a 32-4 record on its march to the regional final. The 32 wins set a new single-season program record, and the Pack defeated a program-record nine nationally-ranked opponents amidst one of the toughest schedules in the nation. The team finished the year ranked No. 3 in the AP Top 25, extending its streak of season-ending Top 10 rankings to four.
In 2020-21, the Pack went 22-3 overall and 12-2 in conference play under Moore’s leadership. The team defeated two No. 1 opponents on the road during the regular season (No. 1 South Carolina on Dec. 13 and No. 1 Louisville on Feb. 1), marking the first time a women’s basketball team has accomplished that feat in the last 20 seasons. After winning the 2021 ACC Tournament, NC State earned a No. 1 seed for the NCAA Tournament for the first time in team history.
On Nov. 10, 2019, Moore earned the 700th victory of his head coaching career. It made him the 11th active and 22nd ever NCAA Division I women’s basketball coach to do so.
