A tough competitor with tremendous basketball instincts, Gore can play either guard position. He has the ability to score at will from the perimeter or by getting in the lane, and can set up teammates for scoring chances with his ballhandling and passing ability. A high percentage shooter for a guard, Gore has an accurate touch from the outside with unlimited range and has shown the desire to be a go-to player willing to take a big shot. Gore is a good team defender who has fully recovered from a knee injury that limited him to just one contest in 2006-07.
As a junior
Gore, a second-team pick as a freshman, returned to the All-Ivy second team after posting an outstanding comeback season after missing a majority of 2006-07 with a knee injury. Gore averaged 10.1 points, 2.0 rebounds and 1.5 assists while shooting .929 from the free-throw line to rank first in the Ivy League. Gore really found his legs in Ivy play, Boosting his scoring totals to 12.1 ppg. (10th) and ranking among the leaders in 3-point field goal percentage (second, .459) and 3-pointers made (second, 2.43). The junior guard had a season-best 19 points in the win at Penn, helping Cornell snap a 19-game losing skid at the Palestra, and added 18 points in back-to-back contests at home against Yale and Brown. Gore ended the season with 15 games in double figures and led the team in scoring five times and in steals in 10 games.
As a sophomore
A preseason first-team All-Ivy selection by numerous college basketball publications, Gore opened his 2006-07 season with a bang, scoring a game-high 20 points (including five 3-pointers) and dishing off four assists in a season-opening win at Northwestern. The win was costly, however, as he suffered a knee injury in the final seconds of the contest, causing him to miss the rest of the season.
As a freshman
The 2005-06 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and a second-team All-Ivy selection, Gore averaged a then-school freshman record 12.9 ppg., good for fifth in the Ivy League, with a school-record 83 3-point field goals (first in the Ivy League, 21 more than any other player in the Ancient Eight). He added 2.3 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game, as well as 25 steals, while shooting 43 percent from the floor and 42 percent from beyond the arc. Gore also made 83 percent from the free-throw line. The eight-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week reached double figures in scoring 17 times and hit at least one 3-pointer in 27 of the team’s 28 games, including in each of the final 22 contests. He had 10 games with at least four 3-point field goals. Gore’s .419 shooting percentage from beyond the arc was good for third in the conference and seventh all-time at Cornell in a season. Gore was also durable, starting all 28 games and averaging 32.8 minutes per game. He had a career-high 28 points to go along with three rebounds and three assists in a win at Columbia, and burst onto the scene with six 3-pointers en route to 22 points at then-No. 16 Syracuse in his second collegiate game. Gore was just the second Cornell freshman to earn a spot on the All-Ivy first or second teams, joining Mike Davis, the 1977-78 Ancient Eight Rookie of the Year who was named to the second team as a freshman.
At Monrovia
A third-team all-state pick as a senior, Gore averaged 24.8 points, 4.9 assists and 4.7 rebounds per game and was voted the Indianapolis Star’s 2005 All-West Player of the Year. A deadeye shooter, Gore shot 61.6 percent from the field, including a school-record 53.2 percent from 3-point territory, and connected on 86.2 percent from the free-throw line. He had a career average of 18 points on 58.5 percent shooting and 45.6 percent from 3-point range. As a senior, Gore led his team to a top 10 ranking in the state and posted a single-game high of 43 points. He wound up second on the school’s all-time list with 1,671 points. Gore was named one of the state’s top 100 players by Hoosier Basketball Magazine and was selected to play in the Indiana North-South All-Star game.
Personal
Adam Douglas Gore is the son of Doug and Kathy Gore. He is enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
