TALLAHASSEE – First-year Florida State associate head coach Jim Moran has been named to the 2026 Silver Waves Media list of the 100 Most Impactful High Major Coaches. Moran is in his first season in Tallahassee on head coach Luke Loucks’ Seminole staff.

Now in its seventh year, many of the honorees named to the annual high major assistants coaches list have gone on to be head coach at the Division I level.

The Seminoles are one of 11 schools from the ACC and one of only three schools from the conference to have multiple coaches named to the prestigious list.

Moran brings over a decade of NBA and developmental league coaching experience to the Seminoles’ bench.

Most recently, Moran has served as an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings under Head Coach Mike Brown since 2024. Before that, he was the Head Coach of the Rip City Remix (2023–2024), the G League affiliate of the Portland Trail Blazers. From 2021 to 2023, he worked as an Assistant Coach for the Detroit Pistons under Dwane Casey.

Moran spent a significant portion of his early coaching career with the Portland Trail Blazers, first as an Associate Video Coordinator (2014–2015) and later as an Assistant Coach (2015–2021) under Terry Stotts. He began his coaching journey as a Player Development Coach with the Maine Red Claws during the 2013–2014 season.