Friday, March 22, 2013
The De Smet Jesuit graduate is looking for a new college hoops home after an attempt to walk on at the University of Missouri didn't work out.
On Friday Florida Gulf Coast University will take on Georgetown in an NCAA tournament matchup one day after Belmont battles Arizona. In the back of his mind, Eric Moeller knows that he could have found himself suiting up in one of those games having been recruited by FGCU and Belmont. Instead, the 6-11 former De Smet Jesuit big man is on the sideline, itching to get back into the game. Moeller turned down scholarship offers last spring from mid-major programs for the chance at being a preferred walk-on at the University of Missouri. He'd redshirt this season to build strength with the goal of going on scholarship at some point down the road. At a basketball camp for kids last summer, Tigers Laurence Bowers and Tony Criswell said they were …
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Marquette's Ryan Rosburg and De Smet's Eric Moeller are already making an impression on their new teammates.
Under new NCAA rules, college basketball teams are now able to conduct formal practices with coaching instruction in the summer months, something previously limited to squads which took approved trips overseas before the season. Next month, the Missouri Men's basketball program will spend time playing in Europe, and the first of those practices started Sunday. But the team has been able to practice under the new set of rules since last month. That time has already been enough for a pair of St. Louis area products, Ryan Rosburg (Marquette) and Eric Moeller (De Smet) to make an impression. Two of the pair's new teammates, forward Laurence Bowers and Tony Criswell, were in St. Louis this week for a basketball camp at Kennedy High School and …
Monday, March 12, 2012
Spartan turned down scholarship offers from several Division I programs.
The Missouri Tigers Men's Basketball program picked up a number two seed in the NCAA tournament Sunday, and also added a De Smet big man to the fall recruiting class. Spartan Center Eric Moeller was at Mizzou Arena for the team's Selection Sunday celebration and after returning home decided to accept MU's offer to join the team as a preferred walk-on. He plans to sit next season as a redshirt, but will travel with the team and be on the roster. Moeller averaged 11 points, 5 rebounds and 1 block per game this past season for De Smet. Moeller made several trips to the MU campus after he said coaches discovered him while they were recruiting Nolan Berry, a junior forward who has given a verbal pledge to Butler. The offer to walk on for …
Creve Coeur Patch will have special interest in this year's Men's NCAA basketball tournament. Will you?
If someone had told you six months ago that the University of Missouri would be picked by basketball talking heads like Dick Vitale and Seth Davis on Selection Sunday to reach college basketball's Final Four, I would have responded that there's a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell. Improbability became reality over the weekend, as the Tigers swept through the Big 12 Basketball tournament, even though the team's 30-4 record wasn't enough to garner a number 1 seed in the eyes of those in charge. Kansas didn't get one either, but if they keep on winning, the Jayhawks would play here in St. Louis in two weeks. Instead, the Tigers find themselves the number 2 seed in the West Region, which feeds out to Phoenix. If the Tigers get past Norfolk …
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Spartans make it two in a row to start new calendar year, behind point guard Jimmy Barton’s game-high 20 points and 10 assists.
On a night when it seemed no one from either team could miss from long-range, the De Smet basketball team did just enough from inside the three-point arc Tuesday night, to overcome a record shooting night by visiting crosstown rival Chaminade to pull out a 64-54 win in a critical Metro Catholic Conference game. “They were struggling to get points in the paint,” De Smet head coach Kevin Poelker said. “But credit to them, they devised a way to get themselves some open looks from outside, and they didn’t miss them.” No they did not. The Red Devils hit a school-record 15 three-pointers (on 31 attempts) on Tuesday, to stay in a game that seemed destined to be a De Smet blowout from the outset. In fact, it was Spartan junior point guard Jimmy …
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Friday, December 23, 2011
6’8 Nolan Berry had 25 points and 10 rebounds, and 6’11 Eric Moeller had 21 points to lead Spartans to 79-70 win over Red Devils.
When local basketball preseason prognosticators voted De Smet the No. 1 team in the area before the start of the season, they likely had visions of the Spartans’ massive frontline of 6’8 Nolan Berry, 6’11 Eric Moeller, and 6’6 Alec Bausch wreaking havoc on opposing defenses all season long running through their heads. After two early losses though, De Smet isn’t the top-ranked team in the area anymore, but on Thursday night, the Spartans’ big boy lineup did dominate the action against rival Chaminade, in what proved to be an impressive 79-70 victory over the Red Devils. “I thought there were definitely moments where we played our game,” De Smet head coach Kevin Poelker said. “To their credit, they did some really tough things defensively …
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Lynne Moeller and Meg Berry
9:31 am on Saturday, December 24, 2011
That was from me - Lynne. Meg is in St. Louis bundled up in her parka and fur-lined boots :) more ›