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Position | Point guard | ||||||||||||
League | Serie A | ||||||||||||
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Born | July 1, 1992 | ||||||||||||
Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
Listed height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||||||
Listed weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school | Warsaw (Warsaw, Indiana) | ||||||||||||
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NBA draft | 2016 / Undrafted | ||||||||||||
Playing career | 2016–present | ||||||||||||
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2016–present | Enel Brindisi | ||||||||||||
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Nic Moore (born July 1, 1992) is an American basketball player for Enel Brindisi of Italy's Lega Serie A. Moore played college basketball for the SMU Mustangs. He was named American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 2015 and 2016. Moore previously competed for the Illinois State Redbirds.
Moore played his freshman year at Illinois State, where he averaged 10.0 points and 3.9 assists per game and was named to the Missouri Valley Conference All-Freshman team. In the first round of the 2012 National Invitation Tournament, Moore scored 24 points in a 96-93 win against Ole Miss. He posted 25 points in their 92-88 loss to eventual champion Stanford. After the season, Illinois State coach Tim Jankovich accepted an assistant coach job at SMU. “As soon as Coach Jankovich left I made up my mind and knew I wanted to go play for a BCS program,” Moore stated. “It didn’t matter who was going to be the head coach. My decision had already been made.” He ended up transferring to SMU to play under Larry Brown.
In his sophomore season, Moore posted averages of 13.6 points, 4.9 assists, 2.3 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 32.2 minutes per game. Moore scored in double figures in 30 of the Mustangs' 37 games. In the quarterfinals of the 2014 National Invitation Tournament, he hit a 3-pointer to in the closing seconds to help SMU to a 67-65 win over California.