Bowling Green State University Athletics
Andy Moore Named Assistant Coach at Eastern Michigan
July 14, 2008 | Men's Basketball
July 14, 2008
YPSILANTI, Mich. -
Bowling Green State University men's basketball assistant coach Andy Moore has been named to the staff at Eastern Michigan University, EMU announced Monday morning (July 14).
In his lone season with the Falcons, Moore helped the team to a 13-17 record. BGSU more than doubled the MAC win total from the previous season, going 7-9 in conference play in 2007-08 after a 3-13 league mark the previous winter.
Those seven MAC wins included victories over the teams picked to finish first, second and third in the East Division in the 2007-08 preseason poll. One of those wins came over Kent State, the eventual MAC champion and a nationally-ranked team at the time, in the Falcons' final home game on March 1.
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YPSILANTI, Mich. -- Andy Moore, the director of basketball operations at Eastern Michigan University from 2000-02, is returning to the EMU men's basketball program as a full-time assistant coach, EMU head men's basketball coach Charles E. Ramsey has announced. He replaces Dave Donnelly who left to become the head men's basketball coach at Weatherford College in Weatherford, Texas.
The 38-year-old Moore spent the 2007-08 season as a men's assistant basketball coach at Bowling Green State University and the previous five years as an assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Michigan. While with the Wolverines, he spent four years as an assistant coach and one season as the Director of Basketball Operations.
During his tenure in Ann Arbor, Michigan posted three 20-win seasons and had an overall record of 98-65 in the five seasons. The Wolverines won the postseason NIT title in 2004 and advanced to that tournament's championship game in `06.
Before making the short move to Ann Arbor, Moore spent two years as the director of basketball operations at EMU. His resume also includes four years at California University of Pennsylvania (1996-2000). After serving as an assistant coach for his first three years, he was promoted to assistant head coach for the 1999-2000 season.
Moore began his coaching career at Mt. Vernon High School, where he was an assistant coach for the varsity boys team (1992-94). He then moved on to Kenyon (Ohio) College, where he served as an assistant men's basketball coach and head men's golf coach (1994-96).
Moore is a 1992 graduate of Muskingum College, where he was named first-team All-American and Ohio Athletic Conference Player of the Year as a senior in 1991-92. He was a three-time All-OAC selection and finished his career as the school's all-time scoring leader. Moore was inducted into Muskingum's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999.
Moore and his wife, Stephanie, reside in Ypsilanti.
