After 21 years at UConn and nearly four decades coaching under different titles in college basketball, Tom Moore announced his retirement on Thursday.
Moore, 61, spent last season as the program’s general manager after two stints as an assistant, which included two national championships on Jim Calhoun’s staff and two more with Dan Hurley.
“It has been an honor to spend my entire professional life coaching college basketball,” Moore said in a release. “I’d like to thank all the players I’ve coached and all the men I’ve shared the sideline with. Every one of you hold a special place in my heart. My family has made tremendous sacrifices to support my career and I could not have done this without them. Sincere thanks to Coach Calhoun and Coach Hurley for believing in me at the beginning and conclusion of my coaching career.
“To work alongside two of the greatest coaches in college basketball history was a blessing I could have never imagined when I began this journey. UConn Nation, I am forever grateful to have been a small part of the Basketball Capital of the World for two decades.”
Moore first joined Calhoun in 1994 – after five years as the young head coach at Worcester State – and was a key part of the program’s first two national championships in 1999 and 2004, helping develop and recruit players like Ray Allen, Khalid El-Amin, Rip Hamilton, Caron Butler, Ben Gordon, Emeka Okafor, Rudy Gay and countless others. After 13 seasons in Storrs, he spent a decade as the head coach at Quinnipiac, where he compiled a record of 162-146.
After his final year in Hamden, Moore joined Hurley in Rhode Island for what ended up being his final season with the Rams, ending in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. When Hurley took the UConn job, Moore came back for his second stint and has been instrumental in the Huskies’ return to the top of the college basketball world, winning back-to-back titles in 2023 and 2024.
No other men’s assistant coach in the modern era of the NCAA Tournament has been on the sideline for four national championships.
Since he returned to UConn in 2018, Moore helped the staff recruit and develop a total of 11 NBA Draft picks, 10 All-Conference first-team players and a pair of All-Americans. Among the Huskies he played a lead role in landing were national champions Donovan Clingan, Andre Jackson and Alex Karaban, who became the program’s winningest player.
“I can’t thank Tom enough for his dedication to the Connecticut basketball program through the years,” Hurley said in a release. “He has been a loyal and trusted assistant to me for the last decade and is a true UConn man. Tom has been tantamount to our success as he took on a crucial role helping to navigate the new era of college basketball.
“His insight both on and off the court led to great success as UConn’s first general manager, helping build the rosters that led to the winningest run in program history.”
Moore helped usher the program into the new era of NIL and the transfer portal as its first-ever GM.
The program announced in the release that it will begin a national search to fill the position ahead of the 2026-27 season.
