2022-2023 Pasadena City College Men's Basketball News
Four members of a 2022-2023 Pasadena City College men's basketball team that reached the Southern California Regional Finals are moving on to 4-year universities with scholarships.
Pasadena City College men's basketball sophomore Nigel Wilson was selected as the men's recipient of the 2023 CalHOPE Courage Award. Amaya and Anysa Gray, twin sisters who play soccer for the University of California, Berkeley, were the women's award winners. The inspiring student-athletes were recognized on Monday at Oracle Park during an on-field ceremony prior to the San Francisco Giants versus Washington Nationals game.
Nigel Wilson, a sophomore center from the SoCal Regional Finalist Pasadena City College men's basketball team, received the March CalHOPE Courage Award, which honors student-athletes at California colleges and universities who have overcome the stress, anxiety, and mental trauma associated with personal hardships and adversity.
Sophomores Jonathan Tchengang and Jayden Winfrey were named to the All-South Coast Conference North First Team as representatives from the Pasadena City College men's basketball team.
It almost was a dream come true. The #12 seed Pasadena City College men's basketball team held a 58-57 lead over the #4 San Bernardino Valley Wolverines with less than three minutes left. Underdog PCC was that close to punching a ticket to the CCCAA State Tournament. Alas, SBVC made six free throws in the last minute and ended the Lancers season, 63-58, in a SoCal Regional Final Saturday night.
For two years running, Ryan Frazer has found the formula to push lower seeds to great heights. A year after guiding a #21 seeded MiraCosta to the state championship tournament, Frazer directed the Pasadena City College men's baskeball team to its first SoCal Regional Final appearance in 30 years.
A feisty #21-seeded Cerro Coso men's basketball team gave #12 Pasadena City College all it could handle, including a raucous fan base of Coyotes baseball players who stayed noisy throughout Wednesday's SoCal Regional Round 1 game. The Lancers, though, kept their poise and gutted out a 71-68 victory to keep its glorious 2022-23 season going.
While the Pasadena City College men's basketball team was humbled slightly in losing its shot at grabbing a share of the South Coast Conference North Division championship on Friday, the Lancers are excited about securing the #12 seed in the upcoming Southern California Regional Playoffs. PCC hosts #21 Cerro Coso in a Round 1 game Wednesday, Feb. 22 with a 7 p.m. tip-off at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
When Ryan Frazer was hired as Pasadena City College men's basketball head coach 11 months ago, the expectations of the 2022-2023 Lancers were not high and certainly he would have been given kudos even by producing a double-digit win season following the program's horrific 1-26 run in 2021-22. Instead, Frazer and his assistant coaching staff of Harrison Haynes and Spencer Nunes had loftier goals.
The Pasadena City College men's basketball team is gearing up for the final week of the South Coast Conference North Division schedule and 2022-2023 regular season. The Lancers made it 13 wins in their last 14 games with a convincing 68-51 victory at Mt. San Antonio on Feb. 8.
The state #13-ranked Pasadena City College men's basketball team returned to the win column Friday night, struggling shooting from the field, but making enough baskets to defeat visiting LA Trade-Tech, 70-61. PCC upped its record to 18-7 overall and 4-1 in second place of the South Coast Conference North Division.
The Pasadena City College men's basketball team saw its 11-game win streak and its spot in first place in the South Coast Conference North Division both fall by the wayside in its clash at state #8 East Los Angeles College on Wednesday night.
The juggernaut known as the 2022-2023 Pasadena City College men's basketball team keeps impressing with its 11th straight victory, a 90-65 rout over Rio Hondo on Friday night. The state #18-ranked Lancers upped their overall mark to 17-6 and are now 3-0 in the South Coast Conference North Division.
The turnaround of the Pasadena City College men's basketball program from a 1-win team last season to a state-ranked unit this season has taken on almost mythic proportions. On Friday night, the 2022-2023 Lancers ran their win streak to 10 games, something no PCC team has accomplished since the days of Jerry Tarkanian here in the late 1960s.
A season after the Pasadena City College men's basketball team was a walkover for opponents at 1-26, it's the Lancers not just walking, but trampling over the opposition. The red-hot state #23-ranked Lancers rolled through South Coast Conference crossover play like a team ready for its all-important, 8-game, SCC North Division schedule.
Following Wednesday's 78-59 victory at Compton College, the Pasadena City College men's basketball team had long-time fans wondering when the last time a Lancers squad had won seven straight games. You have to go back to the 1999-2000 team, the only South Coast Conference champion in the school's history, as the last to perform the feat.
