Moore and five more get Hall call

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Apr 27, 2026
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Former Wooster head coach Steve Moore and five former Division III basketball players will be inducted into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame this fall.

The 10th induction class into the Hall of Fame includes North Park guard Michael Thomas; Wabash center Pete Metzelaars; Otterbein center Jeff Gibbs; Amherst guard Andrew Olson; and Cabrini forward Aaron Walton-Moss.

Moore won 867 games over 39 seasons, most of them with the Fighting Scots whom he led to the NCAA Tournament 28 times. Wooster reached the national semifinals in 2003, 2007, and 2011, and Moore is second all-time to Franklin and Marshall’s Glenn Robinson among coaches who spent most of their career in Division III.

Thomas is the latest member of North Park’s three-time national championship team to receive this honor, following head coach Dan McCarrell (inducted in 2025) and Michael Harper (inducted in 2019). Thomas was the Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player in the Vikings’ 1980 championship and drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers in 1981.

While Metzelaars is best known for his 16-season career as an NFL tight end, he was also an outstanding basketball player at Wabash. He led the Little Giants to the 1982 Division III national championship during an NCAA Tournament run in which he set records for points scored (129), field goals (54) and field goal percentage (77.1 percent). He still holds the college’s career record for rebounds with 1,176 and is third all-time in scoring.

Jeff Gibbs has a similar story as a two-sport standout at Otterbein. Standing a little over six-foot tall, the Uber talented, undersized center led the Cardinals to the 2002 national championship. Gibbs grabbed 83 rebounds in the NCAA Tournament, including a 25-board, 25-point effort in the title-clinching win over Elizabethtown. Gibbs, who was also an All-American football player, went on to a long professional basketball career oversees.

Andrew Olson went coast-to-coast, from San Diego to Massachusetts, where he led Amherst College to three national semifinals, two championship games and the 2007 national title. Olson was the Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player when Amherst topped Virginia Wesleyan and then made the All-Tournament team again in 2008 when Amherst finished second to Washington U. Since graduating in 2008, Olson has gone onto a distinguished coaching career in the NBA, where he’s currently on the Cleveland Cavaliers’ staff.

Aaron Walton-Moss took Division III by storm as the X-factor in Cabrini College’s run to the 2012 national championship game and then he became one of the most versatile players in recent Division III basketball history. Walton-Moss, who occasionally played point guard on offense and post on defense, was a triple-double machine for the Cavaliers and went on to a professional career overseas.

The induction celebration will take place November 6 in Lakeland, Florida.