The Pittsburgh Basketball Club is proud to announce the formation of the Sam Clancy Award for Western Pa’s Top Senior Forward.

The award is named after the great Sam Clancy. Long considered one of Western Pa’s top forwards, Sam was the anchor of the great Fifth Avenue and Brashear High School teams of the mid 70’s. As a great scorers and rebounder, Sam was considered one of the top players in not only the state of Pennsylvania, but the entire nation.

He was honored with All City and All State honors as well as a starting position on the Pennsylvania team in Sonny Vaccaro’s legendary Dapper Dan Roundball Classic. Sam was considered one of the top recruits in the nation.

Sam continued his basketball career at the University of Pittsburgh where under Coach Tim Grgurich, he was one of the top performers in the history of the Eastern 8 Conference. As a Senior, Sam led Pitt to the NCAA tournament second round, losing to eventual Final Four participant North Carolina. He was drafted in the 1981 NBA draft in the fourth round by the Phoenix Suns.

Sam remains one of the top scorers and rebounders in Pitt’s illustrious basketball history. Sam’s career point total of 1,671 and rebounds of 1,362 remain among the top careers in not only Pitt history, but the Eastern 8/Atlantic 10 Conference. In addition to these honors, Sam also represented the United States at the Pan Am games where he won a Gold Medal at the World Championships under legendary Coach Bob Knight.

Sam’s was not limited to greatness on the hardwood. After completing his basketball career he went on to a distinguished career playing professional football for the Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts, and Cleveland Browns.

The Pittsburgh Basketball Club is honored to create this award for one of Western Pa’s all-time best. A watch list for Senior Forwards under consideration for this annual award is being developed with area High school coaches and local media. The first annual Clancy Award will be selected at the completion of this year’s High School season and given in April 2024 at the first annual PBC Awards Lunch.

More details of this event will follow.

The Pittsburgh Basketball Club is pleased to announce the 2023-24 PBC Girls Hall of Fame Classic will return to its original home at Ambridge High School on January 6, 2024. Please plan to join us for some great girl’s basketball action!

The Pittsburgh Basketball Club is proud to announce the formation of the Baron “BB” Flenory Award for Western Pa’s Top Senior Guard. The award is named after the great Baron “BB” Flenory.

The 2023 PBC Fall League will kickoff with games at Moon High School, Montour High School and Central Catholic High School September 19, 2023. Find below master and individual team schedules. Please join us for a great preview of the 2023 Basketball season.

The PBC Fall Championships will begin October 30, 2023 at North Allegheny High School.

PBC FALL MASTER 2023

2023 PBC FALL BY TEAM

The Pittsburgh Basketball Club is proud to host our 30th annual Fall League. This year’s leagues will be held at Central Catholic and Moon HS on Monday nights beginning September 18 and on Tuesday nights at Montour  beginning September 19.

Space is extremely limited! Varsity leagues are only $450 per team.

The leagues have practically pre-booked to capacity! Each team will play 6 regular season games and we are proud to announce a Fall League Championship playoff!

Please find the application below.

Fall 2023 Registration

The Pittsburgh Basketball Club extends its prayers and condolences to the family of coaching legend Jean Condo.

Coach Condo was a pioneer in women’s athletics locally, regionally, and nationally. As title IX became a reality for female athletes through out the nation, women’s sports had no bigger ally, advocate, and leader than Coach Condo.

At her request, her modesty would not allow us to honor her in the inaugural PBC Women’s Hall of Fame class though unanimously selected. In honor of her memory and a legacy that has and will stand the test of time in Western PA athletics, the Pittsburgh Basketball Club is honored to announce Coach Condo will be honored proper with the PBC Hall of Fame class of 2023.

Rest in peace Coach Condo. Thank you for all that you did for so many.

Penn Hills Head Coach Chris Giles has been named the winner of the 2022-23 PBC Dick Cetrone Coach of the Year award.

The Penn Hills 2022-23 season speaks for itself. 23-4 overall record, Section 2-5A Champion, WPIAL 5A champion and PIAA 5A quarterfinalist. Truly one of the best seasons in recent Penn Hills Basketball history.

The Cetrone Award is named after legendary Sto-Rox Basketball Coach Dick Cetrone, who was the founding father of the Sto-Rox Basketball dynasty, winning 1 State championship, 5 WPIAL Championships as well as 10 Section Titles. Coach Cetrone’s 1983 State Championship team was Pennsylvania’s last 32-0 undefeated state champion. The feat has since been matched by New Castle (31-0 in 2014) and Aliquippa (30-0 in 2016).

Chris will be presented with their award at the 2024 Pgh HS Classic at Montour High School as we kick off Hall of Fame week at half time of a game to be determined on January 27-28, 2024.

Congratulations to Moon Senior Elijah Guillory on being named the 2023 recipient of the Edward A. Wovchko Award as PBC Summer League Most Valuable Player.

Elijah averaged 20 points a game in leading Moon to their first PBC Summer League championship in school history.

Elijah will be honored the weekend of January 27/28, 2024 during a game to be determined at the PBC High School Classic during PBC Hall of Fame weekend.

Congratulations to Coach Gino Palmosina and the Moon Tigers for their 63-51 victory over South Fayette in the 4A-6A championship game. Moon completed an undefeated 13-0 season in the 30^th annual PBC Summer Championships. They are the 3^rd team in league history to go undefeated thru both the regular and post season.

The championship is the 2nd for Coach Palmosina and his staff in the PBC Summer League and 1^st as Head Coach at Moon. The championship is the first for Moon since 2003 in the 30-year history of the PBC Summer League.

Moon defeated Gateway in the opening round then Uniontown in the quarterfinals, followed by a hard fought win over Allderdice in the semifinals.  South Fayette defeated Central Catholic in the 1st round, then Penn Hills in the quarterfinals as well as Montour in the semifinals to reach the championship game.

Congratulations to Moon on their championship game victory to complete an undefeated season.