Jeff Moore, a coaching veteran with ties to the entire state of Louisiana, begins his 32^nd year in college coaching and first as head coach of the storied Bossier Parish Community College program led by many great coaches, including legendary Louisiana basketball coach/player Mike McConathy, who started the program.

 Moore comes to BPCC after 3 years at LSU, serving as Director of Recruiting for the Tigers under Head Coach Matt McMahon. He helped the Tigers land several Top 20 high school recruiting classes & a couple Top 20 transfer portal classes while on staff. In 2024, LSU played in the NIT postseason tournament. In his position at LSU, his main responsibility was to identify/evaluate prospects for the program's recruiting board as early as freshman year and build relationships with those players. Other duties within the program included scouting opponents, alumni relations, player mentor/academic groups, outreach programs for high school/JUCO/AAU, coordinating official & unofficial visits, and this past spring/summer, doing game scheduling & camp director.

 Prior to LSU, Moore served as the cornerstone under McConathy for the Northwestern State basketball program for 16 years before joining the LSU program in April of 2022. Along with serving as associate head coach at Northwestern State, Moore was also the Demons' recruiting coordinator, helping sign two Southland Conference Freshmen of the Year—Jalan West from Bossier City (2013) and Zeek Woodley (2014)—2013 SLC Newcomer of the Year DeQuan Hicks, and 2013 SLC Tournament MVP from Shreveport Shamir Davis. Also, Moore recruited William Mosley from Shreveport, who is fifth all-time in NCAA D1 history in blocks and led the NCAA D1 in blocks per game in 2011. Mosley has been a pro superstar throughout Europe.

Three of Moore’s signees—Woodley (Pelican, LA), Koby Achane (Welsh, LA) at Missouri Valley College, and Ronnie Ross (Jeanerette, LA) at John Wood Community College—became their program’s career scoring leaders. West owns the NSU career assists record.

Moore’s strategic acumen and teaching skills were tremendous assets as NSU won yet another Southland Conference title in his first season on staff, capturing the SLC East Division crown. In his first two seasons, the Demons made back-to-back trips to the Southland Tournament Finals.

Moore helped steer the 2012-13 Demons to a 14-seed in the NCAA tournament after another Southland Tournament championship. The 23 games the Demons won in 2012-13 sit in second place in the school’s all-time history for wins in a season. NSU won 59 games across three seasons from 2012 to 2015, while leading the nation in scoring in 2014-15 and ranking second nationally the previous two seasons.

The Demons returned to significant March basketball in 2019-20 as Moore helped a staff nurture eight newcomers, blending with a core of veterans to finish tied for fourth in the Southland Conference. It was the fifth time since 2010 that NSU has finished in the top four of the 13-member league. NSU won its first-round SLC Tournament game before the postseason was canceled because of the COVID-19 virus.

Moore not only had a commitment to excellence on the floor but also in the classroom. Ninety percent of Demon basketball players have graduated since Moore arrived, and NSU’s APR has continued to climb, including 1000 marks in 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2016. In 2014, the program received NCAA national recognition for ranking in the top 10 percent in Division I and again led all conference and state public institutions in the NCAA Graduation Success Rate with a 98 percent score.

 He spent one season as an assistant at Bossier Parish Community College (2005-06) before going to Northwestern State. During that season, BPCC won both the Miss-Lou conference title and Miss-Lou tournament championship - qualifying for the Region 23 Tournament for the first time in five years.

 Prior to Northwestern State, Moore spent five seasons (1997-2002) as a head coach and athletic director at John Wood Community College (IL). There, he made a run to the NJCAA regional tournament semifinals in 2001 and coached guard Ronnie Ross, a Louisiana product who was ranked as a Top 10 JC prospect by TSN Basketball Magazine. Ross was the first of three Top-10 junior college prospects by position that Moore coached, including Kurt Looby and Jessen Gray, who played for Moore when he was an assistant at Tyler Junior College (2002-05).

 Moore has coached over 100 players in his career from his home state of Louisiana.

 Recently, former NSU player Nikos Chougkaz played for Greece in the 2024 Olympics. Trey Gilder of Dallas, who played with the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies and was an NBA D-League All-Star, played for him at NSU and Tyler Junior College. Overall, he has coached 8 players that have played in the NBA G League.

Moore’s father, the late Wilbert C. “Nooky” Moore, coached for 33 seasons of high school (Slidell, Rayne, Notre Dame-Crowley, Lake Arthur) and college basketball (assistant coach at McNeese for Ralph Ward).

 In 2019, Moore’s alma mater, Lake Arthur High School, named its basketball court “Jeff Moore Court,” & his #34 jersey at Lake Arthur is the only one in school history to be retired in the gymnasium already named after his father. He played for the LA Stars AAU team and was chosen for the Louisiana All-Stars Team that toured the Canary Islands.

 As a player, Moore earned NJCAA honors as an academic All-American and all-region (honorable mention) player at Marshalltown Community College in Iowa. He also was honored as an NAIA Scholar All-American while playing at Missouri Valley College.

 He earned a master’s degree in education, with an emphasis in athletic administration, from Northwestern State in 1997.

 He continues to host summer camps in Jefferson Davis Parish starting in 1998 and also hosted senior workout camps for many years in April in south Louisiana, providing an opportunity for hundreds of state prep players to obtain college scholarships at the junior college, NAIA, and NCAA levels. His relationships with high school coaches in Louisiana helped raise attendance at summer team camps (over 90 teams each summer, with 120 teams attending one summer) and clinics to all-time highs at NSU.

 Moore and his wife Amy (who played college volleyball and basketball and is currently a 3^rd grade elementary school teacher), have two children. Gracie—a freshman volleyball player at NJCAA Region 14 - Blinn College (TX) and Caige (named for Dad’s Cajun heritage) is currently an 8th grader playing junior high football and travel baseball for the Knights.

 Coaching motto: “Success occurs when preparation comes face-to-face with opportunity!”

Life motto: “Love Your Brother!”

College Coaching Experience:
1994-95: Student Assistant, Missouri Valley College (MO)
1995-97: Assistant Coach, Missouri Valley College (MO)
1997-2002: Head Coach/AD, John Wood Community College (IL)
2002-05: Assistant Coach, Tyler Junior College (TX)
2005-06: Assistant Coach, Bossier Parish Community College (LA)
2006-22: Associate Head Coach/Asst. Coach, Northwestern State University (LA)
2022-25: Director of Recruiting, LSU