Stores also played one year of basketball for the Robinson School in New Jersey before his collegiate career.
The next year, Stores averaged his highest points per game up to this point and improved as the season progressed, helping Manhattan win the MAAC Championship game and reaching the 2015 NCAA Division I Tournament.
[6] In his senior and final year, Stores recorded his best stats from all his collegiate career and was nominated as a Lefty Driesell Defensive All-American.
[7][8] While playing his college basketball career at Manhattan, Stores was simultaneously working to achieve his bachelor's degree in business management which he received in 2015.
[10] Due to the unexpected sudden firing of Masiello, Stores was thrust into the role of the interim head coach just two weeks before the start of the 2022–23 Manhattan basketball season.