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Moore and more: GCU adds improving guard
5/21/2023 3:07:00 PM | Men's Basketball, Paul Coro
Transfer led Georgia State last season with 14.2 points, 2.2 steals per game
Collin Moore is a scoring guard from the South who was looking for a fresh start with a winning program after leading his previous college stop in scoring.
Grand Canyon fit the bill, and Lopes guard Ray Harrison offered the proof after having just thrived in a parallel move.
Moore, a 6-foot-4 guard from Arkansas, is transferring from Georgia State to GCU with two eligibility seasons, a year after Harrison made a similar transition as a South Carolina native who went from being Presbyterian's top scorer to the WAC's leading conference scorer on the Lopes' NCAA tournament team.
"I wanted a different environment to start over," said Moore, who met Harrison on his Phoenix visit. "I went on the visit to Grand Canyon, and it was a great environment. It was a great to be around the coaches, and the campus was a joy to be around. I've been in the South a lot, so I'd never been to the West Coast. It's a lot different, so it's a big transition."
Moore missed most of last season with a left thumb injury but returned to play the best basketball of his career down the stretch. In 13 games (11 starts) for Georgia State, Moore averaged a team-best 14.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game with 48% shooting from the field and 36% shooting on 3-pointers.
"Collin can really score the basketball well and disrupts plays on defense with his length," GCU head coach Bryce Drew said of his sixth offseason roster addition. "We like that he is a very versatile player that can play multiple positions on offense and defend many positions on defense."
Moore's performance after returning in January was a huge jump in output after the North Little Rock, Arkansas, native posted scoring averages of 4.5 and 1.8 in his first two seasons at Georgia State, where he was on the Panthers' 2022 Sun Belt champion before head coach Rob Lanier left for SMU last year.
"Coming in, I was a slasher," said Moore, who prepped for a fifth year at Sunrise Christian Academy near Wichita, Kansas. "Between my sophomore and junior year, I worked on trying to be a three-level scorer. Working on my game in the summertime developed it and here we go now.
"I'm a two-way guard. I like to play defense and can get a lot of steals. I'm a guard who can score on all three levels. Whatever you need out of me. I'm coming. I'm ready."
Moore showed that with a 28-point game against Marshall on Feb. 11, when he made 12 of 18 shots from the field and added three steals. He displayed the versatility by posting a 25-point game against Texas State in the Feb. 28 season finale, when he went 11 for 12 on free throws in the Sun Belt tournament game.
Moore said missing most of last season for injury gave him a hunger to compete that was only further fueled by having his best play cut short with only one postseason game.
And then he caught a glimpse of what it looks like to play games in front of the Havocs at perpetually packed GCU Arena.
"I didn't know about them until my friends were calling me and saying, 'Grand Canyon? Their fans are crazy,' " Moore said. "I'm excited."
This offseason, GCU has added Arizona State transfers Duke Brennan, a center, and Malcolm Flaggs, a shooting guard, along with Louisville transfer center Sydney Curry, Oregon transfer forward Lök Wur and former DePaul and Kansas small forward Tyon Grant-Foster.
Grand Canyon fit the bill, and Lopes guard Ray Harrison offered the proof after having just thrived in a parallel move.
Moore, a 6-foot-4 guard from Arkansas, is transferring from Georgia State to GCU with two eligibility seasons, a year after Harrison made a similar transition as a South Carolina native who went from being Presbyterian's top scorer to the WAC's leading conference scorer on the Lopes' NCAA tournament team.
"I wanted a different environment to start over," said Moore, who met Harrison on his Phoenix visit. "I went on the visit to Grand Canyon, and it was a great environment. It was a great to be around the coaches, and the campus was a joy to be around. I've been in the South a lot, so I'd never been to the West Coast. It's a lot different, so it's a big transition."Moore missed most of last season with a left thumb injury but returned to play the best basketball of his career down the stretch. In 13 games (11 starts) for Georgia State, Moore averaged a team-best 14.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game with 48% shooting from the field and 36% shooting on 3-pointers.
"Collin can really score the basketball well and disrupts plays on defense with his length," GCU head coach Bryce Drew said of his sixth offseason roster addition. "We like that he is a very versatile player that can play multiple positions on offense and defend many positions on defense."
Moore's performance after returning in January was a huge jump in output after the North Little Rock, Arkansas, native posted scoring averages of 4.5 and 1.8 in his first two seasons at Georgia State, where he was on the Panthers' 2022 Sun Belt champion before head coach Rob Lanier left for SMU last year.
"Coming in, I was a slasher," said Moore, who prepped for a fifth year at Sunrise Christian Academy near Wichita, Kansas. "Between my sophomore and junior year, I worked on trying to be a three-level scorer. Working on my game in the summertime developed it and here we go now.
"I'm a two-way guard. I like to play defense and can get a lot of steals. I'm a guard who can score on all three levels. Whatever you need out of me. I'm coming. I'm ready."
Moore showed that with a 28-point game against Marshall on Feb. 11, when he made 12 of 18 shots from the field and added three steals. He displayed the versatility by posting a 25-point game against Texas State in the Feb. 28 season finale, when he went 11 for 12 on free throws in the Sun Belt tournament game.
Moore said missing most of last season for injury gave him a hunger to compete that was only further fueled by having his best play cut short with only one postseason game.
And then he caught a glimpse of what it looks like to play games in front of the Havocs at perpetually packed GCU Arena.
"I didn't know about them until my friends were calling me and saying, 'Grand Canyon? Their fans are crazy,' " Moore said. "I'm excited."
This offseason, GCU has added Arizona State transfers Duke Brennan, a center, and Malcolm Flaggs, a shooting guard, along with Louisville transfer center Sydney Curry, Oregon transfer forward Lök Wur and former DePaul and Kansas small forward Tyon Grant-Foster.
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