Former Grant High School star Mike Moser is coming home to finish his college basketball career. On Tuesday afternoon the 6-foot-8 junior power forward ended his recruitment when he announced he would transfer from UNLV to Oregon.

Oregon will add UNLV transfer Mike Moser to their lineup next season.

Moser will graduate from UNLV next weekend after completing one final class and then move to Eugene at the end of May. He will be eligible to play right away as a 5th year transfer.

“I'll be able to play in front of my friends, family, and my mom,” said Moser by phone Tuesday night in Las Vegas, NV. “It will be great. I can't wait, it is truly a blessing.”

The 2011-12 AP Honorable Mention All-American averaged 14 points and 10.5 points per game as the UNLV Runnin Rebels made the NCAA Tournament. Last season with exceptions at the highest at UNLV since the early 90's Moser and the Rebels struggled. Moser was moved to small forward to help make room for five-star freshman Anthony Bennett and also suffered a dislocated elbow injury. Moser was forced to play hurt for most of the year and finished the year averaging seven points and six rebounds.

“It taught me a lot. Mainly perseverance, going through all the injuries and the ups and downs,” Moser said of his junior year. “The season was a roller coaster ride. I've gained enough experience playing this game I feel like I'll be ready for anything now.”

Moser’s interest in Oregon started with Oregon’s history of one-year transfers and finished with developing a relationship with Dana Altman and current players.

“I would say the big things for me was definitely style of play, opportunity to play, and number one was coaching,” Moser said of his decision. “The relationship I have been able to build the past month has been really big. I felt like it played a big factor in my decision.”

Moser got a first hand look at Oregon last season when Oregon played UNLV in a December tournament in Las Vegas. Oregon’s play, especially that of Oregon’s freshman backcourt of Dominic Artis and Damyean Dotson, really impressed the incoming senior.

“Those guys are really talented and competitive. They have Artis, Dotson, and [Johnathan] Loyd coming back, that's a really talented backcourt,” Moser said of his new teammates. “We had trouble guarding that last year, really we couldn't guard that last year. I know those guys are proven and talented and that played a factor.”

Three weeks ago Moser got his first up close and personal look at Oregon when he made an official visit to Eugene over a Friday and a Saturday. On that visit and then after it Moser spoke with graduated senior E.J. Singler and former Duck Garrett Sim about Dana Altman and the Oregon program. Moser said the conversation with his two friends and former Oregon preps sold Oregon even more.

“I definitely bounced some things off them and they were big products in getting me to Oregon,” says Moser. “E.J. really gave me his honest opinion on how much of a fit it was for me. He just really told me how much success I'd have in this program. He said I'd have more success than he even had. How it was a better fit for me than for them.”

The deciding factor according to Moser came back to Dana Altman’s reputation as a coach and his history with other fifth-year seniors.

“Coach Altman has put those guys [Jay-R Strowbridge, Olu Ashaolu, Devoe Joseph, and Arsalan Kazemi] in successful situations in one year and I look at that and think it can be me,” Moser said. “It's proven that he knows what he is doing with those guys. Hopefully I can be just as successful as them.”

