Moore & Miles Honored as MW Player & Coach Of The YearMoore & Miles Honored as MW Player & Coach Of The Year

Moore & Miles Honored as MW Player & Coach Of The Year

LAS VEGAS, Nev.—In one of the best years in San José State men's basketball program history, "First-time Evers" and history continues to be made as senior guard Omari Moore has been named the Mountain West Player of the Year and first team All-MW selection, and head coach Tim Miles was selected by his peers as the MW Steve Fisher Coach of the Year.
 
Moore is the first Spartan player in school history to be named a conference Player of the Year, while Miles is just the third Spartan coach to receive conference Coach of the Year honors – Bill Berry, PCAA 1980; and Stan Morrison, Big West 1994.
 
Omari Moore, MW Player of the Year, First Team All-MW
Moore averaged 20.1 points per game in MW games as he led the team to a 10-8 record.
He was the third leading scorer in MW games, second in assists and minutes played and fourth in three-point field goals made.
Moore scored in double figures in every MW game including a career-high 33 points in a come-from-behind win at Air Force on March 4.
He scored 20 or more points in nine of the 18 conference games.
He also dished out five or more assists in 10 games including eight against Fresno State and at Utah State.
Moore led the team in scoring in 12 of the 18 conference games.
He is seventh all-time in scoring at San José State with 1,247 points, becoming just the 16th Spartan in school history to record 1,000 career points.

 
Tim Miles – MW Steve Fisher Coach of the Year
Miles is in his second year at the helm of the program.
The program went from eight wins his first season to 19 wins so far in 2022-23, the most wins for SJSU since 1980-81 (22-9).
The team finished 10-8 in MW play, the most MW wins in school history and the best conference record since 1993-94 (11-7).
The Spartans enter the MW Tournament as the fifth-seed, the highest the program has finished since joining the conference in 2013-14.
San José State also finished with 12 wins at home, the most since 2016-17.
 
 


 


UP NEXT – The fifth-seeded Spartans take on fourth-seeded Nevada Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in a quarterfinal matchup at the 2023 Mountain West Tournament. Fans can tune into CBS Sports Network to watch the game or listen to Justin Allegri on the call on KRTB, 860 am, https://860amtheanswer.com/.
 
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