HIGH POINT, N.C. - Darius Moose has been named first team all-state in the College Division by the North Carolina Collegiate Sports Information Association.
Moose continues to rack up accolades after one of the best individual seasons in Brevard's NCAA-era history. The first team all-conference selection finished the year averaging 17.5 points per game, good for third in the conference, and was second in the league with 508 total points. He averaged 4.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 1.0 steals per game and topped the 20-point plateau 12 times.
The senior forward knocked down 47.0 percent of his field goal attempts on the season and finished fourth by shooting at a 42.9 percent clip from beyond the arc. His 72 made three-point field goals ranked fifth in the league. Moose led the conference with 35.2 minutes per game. He was one of the league's most dominant players, leading the Tornados in scoring on 12 occasions and scoring at least 10 points in 25 of the team's 29 games.
With Moose as its leader, the team enjoyed its most success in nearly half a decade. The Tornados finished 12-17, reaching double figures in wins for the first time in four seasons. Brevard improved by six games in conference play to finish at 10-12 and won eight more games overall than the previous year. The season came to a climax on the final day of regular season play as the Tornados erased a 13-point deficit with less than six minutes to play at Wingate to win a 79-77 thriller and earned the program's first conference tournament bid in four years when Anderson fell to Queens on the same day.
Moose ends his career as one of the best players to wear the royal blue and white. He entered the season as the team's leading scorer in NCAA-era history, having already become the first player since Brevard reclassified to top 1,000 career points. He leaves as the only player to top 1,500 career points with 1,513 points over four seasons to his name. He ranks first in the NCAA era in field goals and free throws made, rebounds, games, starts, and minutes, is second in assists and three-point field goals made, fourth in steals and three-point percentage, and fifth in scoring and rebounding average.
Moose becomes the second Brevard basketball player and third student-athlete overall to earn first team all-state recognition from the NCCSIA. Katie Williams was honored last week as a first team performer, while volleyball's Aleksandra Vrvilo received first team libero laurels in November.
Moose joins fellow South Atlantic Conference standout K.J. Arrington from Catawba on the first team of the NCCSIA College Division, which is comprised of NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, and NAIA schools in North Carolina. Rob Lewis of Queens was the lone SAC representative on the second team.
NCCSIA College Division First Team All-State
Matt McCarthy, Guilford College
Darius Moose, Brevard College
Dontrell Brite, University of Mount Olive
Quamain Rose, UNC Pembroke
K.J. Arrington, Catawba College
NCCSIA College Division Second Team All-State
Rob Lewis, Queens University
Brandon Winford, UNC Pembroke
A.J. Clark, Pfeiffer University
Raheem Jolliffe, Saint Augustine's University
Kendall Hargrove, University of Mount Olive
