Roanoke College lost one of it's legends with the passing of National Champion Coach Charlie Moir. Moir led Roanoke to the first national title of any kind in 1972 when Coach Moir led the men's basketball team to the NCAA National Championship.
The head men's basketball coach at Roanoke College from 1967-73, Moir's teams compiled a record of 133-44, had five 20-win campaigns and had a winning percentage of 75.1%. Under his leadership at RC, the Maroons won five Mason-Dixon Conference Championships, advanced to four NCAA Tournaments and twice won the National Collegiate Athletic Association South Atlantic Regional title (1972-73). In 1972, he led the Maroons to the NCAA College Division National Championship, which was the first for any sport at Roanoke. For his efforts, Moir was named NABC National Coach of the Year, the highest honor ever achieved by a Roanoke College coach.
Prior to Roanoke College, Moir coached at high schools in Stuart, Virginia and North Carolina, as he posted an 11-year record of 224-42. Four times he coached high school teams to state championships. From 1952-59, Moir coached at Stuart High School, where he compiled a 143-27 record and directed his teams to six district titles and two state championships. He coached at Mt. Airy High School (NC) from 1960-63, where he led them to two state titles.
He went on to coach at NCAA Div. I schools Tulane and Virginia Tech from 1973-87. For his career, he averaged a remarkable 20 wins per season in 31 years as a head coach. While at VT, Moir took seven teams to the post-season, including four NCAA Tournament bids, compiling a 213-119 mark. His 1982-83 team won a school-record 23 games while his 1978-79 team captured the Metro Conference Championship. Moir, who is still Virginia Tech's winningest coach, recruited All-Americans Dell Curry, who went on to a successful NBA career, and Bimbo Coles, who was an Olympian at the 1988 games.
A native of Francisco, North Carolina, Moir attended Appalachian State University where he was a star in basketball and baseball. He spent three years in the Cincinnati Reds' organization before medical problems ended his professional career. Following his brother Sam Moir's footsteps, (1947-49) he played for Francis Hoover at Appalachian State (1949-51). He was a junior on the 1949-50 team, which captured the Carolinas Conference Championship, NAIA District Championship and a berth to the NAIA National Tournament in Kansas City. They finished 21-9, which was one win shy of tying the single-season record at that time and wasn't matched for another 18 years. Moir was a part of a school-record seven-straight winning seasons (1946-52).
