2022-2023 Pasadena City College Men's Basketball News
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Four Men's Hoopsters From PCC's SoCal Regional Finalist Team Gain Scholarships
July 13, 2023Four 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. -
Men's Hoops Nigel Wilson CalHope Courage Award Winner for 2023
May 10, 2023Pasadena 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.
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Men's Basketball's Nigel Wilson Receives State's CalHOPE Courage Award
March 29, 2023Nigel 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.
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Tchengang, Winfrey Named All-SCC Men's Basketball First Team
March 06, 2023Sophomores 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.
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So Close, But Men's Hoops Fall In Regional Final To SBVC, 63-58
March 05, 2023It 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.
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Men's Hoops Upset SD Miramar, Reach Regional Finals For 1st Time In 30 Years
February 27, 2023For 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.
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Men's Basketball Holds Off #21 Cerro Coso To Advance In Regionals
February 23, 2023A 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.
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Men's Basketball Settles For 2nd in SCC North, But Grabs #12 Home Seed v. #21 Cerro Coso On Wednesday
February 19, 2023While 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.
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First 20-Win Season in 9 Years By PCC Men's Basketball
February 16, 2023When 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.
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#13 Men's Basketball On 13-1 Run As Regular Season Winds Down
February 08, 2023The 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.
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Choppy Play, But #13 Men's Cagers Bounce Back
February 05, 2023The 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.
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State #13 Men's Basketball's 11-Game Win Streak Ends At Hands Of #8 ELAC
February 01, 2023The 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.
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Eleven Straight Wins For State #18 Men's Basketball
January 28, 2023The 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.
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State #18 Men's Cagers Stretch Win Streak to 10
January 21, 2023The 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.
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Men's Basketball Takes 8-Game Win Streak Into SCC North Division Play
January 14, 2023A 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.
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Seven-Game Win Streak For Men's Hoops Is Longest In 23 Years
January 12, 2023Following 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.
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Last-Second Heroics Allows Men's Hoops To Knock Off #11 LA Harbor
January 06, 2023Trailing by four with 25 seconds left, it appeared the Pasadena City College men's basketball team was out of time v. state #11 Los Angeles Harbor. But the 2022-23 Lancers are like Harry Houdini, escaping defeat through a nearly impossible scenario.
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State #23 Men's Cagers Stretch Win Streak to 5
January 04, 2023On the rush of being selected #23 in this week's State Top 30, the Pasadena City College men's basketball team led nearly the entire 40 minutes of an 84-63 triumph at Los Angeles Southwest College on Wednesday night. The Lancers opened the new year by extending their win streak to five games.
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Men's Basketball Closes 2022 By Upsetting #17 Mt. San Jacinto
December 31, 2022The Pasadena City College men's basketball team continues to make strides as a tough team to face. The Lancers won their fourth straight game, surprising host and state #17-ranked Mt. San Jacinto, 84-72, on Friday night. PCC closes the year 2022 with a 10-6 record under first-year head coach Ryan Frazer as the program is off to its best start to a season in nine years.
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Tchengang's Foul Saves Men's Basketball In Double-OT Win Over El Camino
December 20, 2022When is a defensive foul a good thing? When it prevents your team from losing. That's exactly what Pasadena City College men's basketball wing Jonathan Tchengang did in the final second of regulation Tuesday night.
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Role Players Step Up In Men's Hoops Consolation Title Win At SRJC
December 18, 2022The work in progress called the 2022-23 Pasadena CIty College men's basketball team continues to make waves after winning the consolation title at the Santa Rosa Junior College Kris Kringle Classic Dec. 15-17. The Lancers are 7-2 in the last three tournaments and 8-6 overall under first-year head coach Ryan Frazer.
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Men's Basketball Takes 3rd At Antelope Valley Tournament
December 06, 2022The Pasadena City College men's basketball team found some offensive consistency in winning two of three games for third place at the Antelope Valley College Gregg Anderson Classic played Dec. 2-4.
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Hoop Shrinks For Men's Basketball In Loss To State #5 Cerritos
November 29, 2022For the first 15 minutes, the unranked Pasadena City College men's basketball team gave state #5 Cerritos reason to be concerned. The Lancers grabbed a 23-21 lead by pushing transition play that led to a number of layups. The Falcons stepped up their defense over the last 25 minutes while PCC's halfcourt offense went absent as making baskets became next to impossible. Cerritos pulled away quickly in the second half to hand the Lancers a 71-55 defeat in a South Coast Conference crossover game played Monday at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
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Perfect 3-0 For Men's Cagers at Host Robinson Classic
November 21, 2022Head Coach Ryan Frazer got to show off his 2022-23 Pasadena City College men's basketball team to the home faithful and the Lancers did not disappoint as they won all three of their games at the 5th Skip Robinson Classic played Nov. 17-19 at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
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Men's Basketball Hosts 5th Skip Robinson Classic Nov. 17-19
November 14, 2022The Pasadena City College men's basketball team hosts the 5th annual Skip Robinson Classic Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 17-19 at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
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Men's Cagers Produce First Win For Coach Frazer
November 07, 2022It took three games, but the Pasadena City College men's basketball team earned win #1 for new head coach Ryan Frazer. The SoCal preseason #19-ranked Lancers' 70-65 triumph over #17 Saddleback on Saturday also matched last season's win total (1-26).
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New Coach, New Outlook For Men's Basketball As 2022-23 Season Begins
November 03, 2022A program that won one game last season has already received some media buzz thanks to a new head coach and a revitalized roster. With Ryan Frazer now directing the Pasadena City College men's basketball team, the Lancers were ranked No. 19 in the CCCMBCA PreSeason SoCal Top 20.
