Wooster won 82 percent of its games under Moore in the 2000s, making the Scots the second-winningest NCAA men’s program during that 20-year stretch. Wooster was one of just four teams to win at least 80 percent of its games for the first 20 years of the 2000s. Wooster’s success saw the program reach the national semifinals in 2003, 2007, and 2011, with the Scots playing for the national championship in 2011.
Wooster posted the seventh-longest consecutive streak of NCAA tournament appearances under Moore. Wooster won 20 or more games in each of his final 24 seasons leading the Scots, and only the University of Kansas had a longer active streak among NCAA men’s programs when Moore retired. Wooster played for the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament championship in 22 of his final 24 seasons, winning the crown 14 times. The program won a NCAC-leading 18 regular season titles under Moore.
Alumnus Bryan Nelson‘s selection as the 2002-03 National Association of Basketball Coaches Div. III Player of the Year headlined the individual honors won by Moore-coached players. Nelson is one of five Wooster players selected to the NABC’s Div. III All-America first team in the 2000s, and the Scots remain the lone Div. III program with five different first-team selections this century. In all, Wooster players earned 11 NABC All-America, 10 D3hoops.com All-America, five NABC District Player of the Year, 29 NABC all-district, 10 NCAC Player of the Year, five NCAC Newcomer of the Year, and 111 All-NCAC honors under Moore. Moore’s peers voted him their NABC District Coach of the Year five times and NCAC Coach of the Year nine times.
Moore was presented with a NABC Guardian of the Game award for education in 2008, an award once bestowed to John Wooden. Moore served a four-year term on the prestigious rules committee, was a member of the NABC Congress, and served on the NABC ethics committee. Wooster’s program held – and continues to hold – several community service initiatives each year, and Moore helped spearhead the start of several of them. Included among those are basketball skills clinics for local youth with admission being canned food items for People to People Ministries, a canned food drive during the program’s annual Al Van Wie/Wooster Rotary Classic, a coat drive during the E.M. “Mose” Hole/Wooster Kiwanis Classic, and the program helping with the Wooster Kiwanis used book sale.
Moore is a member of The College of Wooster W Association Hall of Fame, Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame, Wittenberg University Hall of Honor, Wayne County Athletic Hall of Fame, and Monroeville High School Hall of Fame. In 2023, Wooster announced the establishment of the Steve Moore Endowment and formally dedicated Steve Moore Court at Timken Gymnasium during the 2023-24 basketball season. He is a current nominee for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
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