RC's Moir Sets ODAC Wins Mark

Second Record for Overall Victories within Reach

FOREST, Va. --- Roanoke College head men’s basketball coach, Page Moir, claimed an ODAC coaching record on Tuesday night, one of two league standards in his reach at the start of the 2010-11 season.  The Maroons’ 73-59 win over Washington and Lee University marked Moir’s 231^st win against conference competition in regular season league play.  The previous holder of that record was former Emory & Henry College mentor, Bob Johnson (230 wins).

The inaugural campaign for men’s basketball under the ODAC banner came during the 1976-77 academic year, making it a charter sport for the conference.  The ODAC began formal competition in fall sports in September 1976.  Moir’s 231 conference wins are the most for any one men’s basketball coach in ODAC history since the league’s inception.

Moir is in his 22^nd year guiding the Maroons’ men’s basketball program, which accounts for each of his years as a head coach in collegiate basketball.  He assumed control of Roanoke’s squad at the beginning of the 1989-90 season.  Ed Green, the Maroons’ head coach directly preceding Moir, steered RC through its first nine years of ODAC play dating back to 1980-81.

Page is not the only Moir to have paced the Roanoke sidelines.  His father, Charlie Moir, presided over the team from 1967-73 and guided the Maroons to their only national title in 1972.  Combined, the father and son combo have won 497 games at Roanoke, accounting for nearly 40-percent of the 98-year program’s 1,290 victories.

Overall, Moir has won 364 games as the Maroons’ boss, leaving him within reach of a second ODAC coaching record.  He stands six victories short of tying E&H’s Johnson for all-time overall victories in ODAC seasons (1976-to-present).  Roanoke has 12 games remaining on its schedule this season.

Listed below are top-ten lists for both overall wins in ODAC seasons (as a coach of an ODAC program) and wins over conference opponents in regular season league play.  For more information, visit the Roanoke College athletic website at http://maroons.roanoke.edu, or go to the ODAC’s home on the Internet at www.odaconline.com.