{"id":239883,"date":"2026-04-21T03:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239883\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T03:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:45:20","slug":"gators-add-sharp-shooter-moriah-murray-to-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239883\/","title":{"rendered":"Gators add sharp-shooter Moriah Murray to roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Florida Head Women’s Basketball Coach Tammi Reiss announced today that the team has signed Penn State sharp-shooter Moriah Murray.\u00a0The Dunmore, Pa. native comes to Gainesville following three seasons with the Lady Lions where she was among the best three-point shooters in the nation, knocking down 38.0 percent of her shots from distance over her career to date.

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\n“I’m so excited to have Moriah Murray join our Gators family,” said Reiss. “She is\u00a0first and foremost a culture young woman with high character, integrity and moral compass. Moriah is hard-working, and will do everything in her power to win and help her teammates be successful.

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\n“She is an elite, efficient shooter with incredible range and one of the quickest releases I have ever seen. Moriah will really fit our offensive system, and help spread the floor for us. She is an excellent transition player, and hunts her shot on the break. I’m excited for Moriah to grow her game and showcase her ability to maneuver ball screens and get to her mid-range game. She will bring a wealth of knowledge, high-basketball IQ and experience at the P4 level to our team next season.”

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\nAs a junior last season, Murray finished third on the team in scoring (9.4 ppg) and assists (2.1 apg), and collected nearly a steal per game while ranking 43rd in the country in three-point field goal percentage (.398, 76 of 191). Murray had 11 games in 2025-26 in which she connected on at least four three-pointers, including a season-high eight vs. Ohio State on Jan. 14, 2026.

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\nDuring her sophomore season, Murray was third on the team in scoring (10.4 ppg), and second in assists (2.7 apg) while finishing 67th in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (.378, 71 of 188). Murray scored a career-high 28 points vs. Bucknell on Nov. 4, 2024 behind a program record tying nine three-pointers.

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\nTo put Murray’s three-point shooting prowess into perspective, only 11 times in Florida’s history has a player made 70 or more three-pointers in a season \u2014Murray has accomplished that feat in each of the past two years.

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\nAs a freshman, Murray helped the Lady Lions to a 22-13 record and the program’s first national ranking in a decade. She played in all 35 games that season averaging 4.3 points while making 35.3 percent of her shots from distance.

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\nThe 5-8 guard\u00a0is also one of the best free throw shooters in the nation, making 92.6 percent of her shots from the charity stripe as a collegian, which is the 10th best percentage among all Division I players since the start of the 2023-24 season.

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\nMurray played four seasons at Dunmore High School in she was named to the All-PIAA AAAA Team, All-Region First-Team and All-League Three First-Team every season. She was also selected as the Times-Tribune Player of the Year as a both senior and freshman

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\nDuring her four seasons, Murray led Dunmore to a 95-5 record with three District Two Titles, four Lackawanna League Division Three Championships and an appearance in the 2019 state championship game. . As a senior, she averaged 17.3 points, 6.0 rebounds, and 6.1 assists per game.

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\nMurray graduated as the school’s record holder for three-pointers in a single season (87) and career (279), and shot 52% from three and 89% at the free throw line during her four years. She scored 1,595 points at Dunmore, while grabbing over 450 rebounds and 450 assists.

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\nAn honor student, Murray also lettered and started in softball as a shortstop and pitcher.

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\nMurray played AAU basketball with JB Hoops for three years and NEPA Elite for two. She helped her teams to two HGSL Championships and was named All-HGSL First-Team twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Florida Head Women’s Basketball Coach Tammi Reiss announced today that the team has signed Penn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-239883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}