The Blue Demons had an eye-opening 9-0 start to the non-conference portion season before suffering their first loss against Buffalo. While DePaul encountered some adversity during the BIG EAST season, Moore was nowhere near discouraged as he remained focused on playing his role to the best of his ability.
“I’m not perfect or anything like that, but I go into every game with my hard hat on and I just focus,” Moore said. “I’m determined to win and help my team win a game. I definitely have things to improve on, but I think so far I’ve been doing a pretty okay job.”
Putting on his hard hat is something he got from his father during all the years of workouts and playing ball growing up.
As a coach, his father had him doing drills incessantly, shadowing the work of his two older brothers. He put in all the sweat and sacrifice as his love for the game grew naturally through his family.
After starting all 32 games and averaging 35.5 minutes a game, it’s clear Moore has made use of his passion and talent for the sport. He averaged 15.5 points a game and led the BIG EAST with 6.1 assists per game while shooting 81.1 percent from the free throw line. He was sixth in the league in steals.
The 5-foot, 11-inch point guard was just four assists shy of 200 with his 196 the fourth-best, single-season mark in school history. He enters his senior season having already eclipsed the 1,000-point career threshold with 1,013.
His highlight reel resembled the major hype of his high school career at Morgan Park winning a pair of state championships and being honored as Illinois Mr. Basketball in 2016. The No. 1-rated player in the state averaged 28 points, seven assists, five steals and four rebounds his senior year.
It’s almost as if the moment he arrived back in the land of Lou Malnati's and Chicago-style hot dogs with all the trimmings, Moore began reliving his high school heroics.
There was the 29 points he put up against a vaunted Villanova program that won national titles in 2016 and 2018. The multi-talented playmaker racked up 27 points against Fairleigh Dickinson and 26 against city rival UIC.
Another heated rivalry brought out the best in Moore when the unselfish facilitator hit the Northwestern Wildcats with 25 points and 10 assists---one of his four double-doubles on the season. He put on a show out east with 24 points and eight assists at Boston College.
Demonstrating his excellence all over the court, Moore was in triple-double territory twice with 14 points, 12 assists and eight rebounds at St. John’s and 21 points, eight assists and six boards at Marquette.
Many of DePaul’s games came down to the last few minutes, and Moore realized his team needed to do a little better at finishing strong.
“The BIG EAST is one of the best conferences in America,” he said. “Being in the BIG EAST is hard. Every game is a hard fought down to the wire.
“It comes down to the final possessions. We just needed to get better at ending the game on the right foot and we’ve been working on that.”
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