Allderdice Head Coach Buddy Valinsky has been named the winner of the 2016 PBC Dick Cetrone Coach of the Year award.

The Allderdice 2015-16 season speaks for itself. Section Champion, City League Champion as well as PIAA State Runner-up finish against one of the countries toughest schedules. Truly one of the best seasons in recent memory and another outstanding addition to the Allderdice basketball tradition which Buddy not only maintained, but set a bar few will ever reach.

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).

Buddy will be presented with his award at the 2017 Pgh HS Classic at Montour High School on January 29, 2017

The Pittsburgh Basketball Club is proud and honored to announce the 2016 Legends Hall of Fame Class. We will be honoring this year’s class at the annual Baierl Hall of Fame Brunch on January 28, 2017 at the Airport Double Tree Hotel from 10 AM to 2 PM.

This year the PBC welcomes home the following Legends of the Western PA Hardwood.

George Karl-Penn Hills-North Carolina

Will Robinson Laurel Highlands- West Virginia

Jim Bolla-Bishop Canevin-Pitt

Terry Knight-General Braddock-Pitt

Jonna Burke- Bethel Park-Pitt

Bill Soffa- Carnegie Tech

Jim McCoy -Central Catholic- UMass

Gary Nelson-Fox Chapel-Duquesne

Barry Nelson-Fox Chapel- Duquesne

Rick Suder-Center Area-Duquesne

Rick Coleman Schenley-Jacksonville

John Luton- Cornell-Penn State

Joe Fryz- Moon Area-West Virginia

Gene Turner- Allegheny High School-CCAC-Carnegie Mellon

Rick Cannon Perry Traditional Academy- Robert Morris

The annual Hall of Fame brunch is SOLD OUT in a matter of days. A limited number of tickets will be made available to the general public beginning December 1, 2016. Please utilize the banquet order form below to order tickets. Any questions, please feel free to contact the PBC at 412-403-9086.

HALL OF FAME BRUNCH ORDER FORM 2017-PUBLIC

With the Bantam season upon us, Ambridge School District will be hosting Tip off tourneys for grades 5 and 6 and 7 and 8 December 16-18, 2016.

Please see the attached fliers below for more details. Any questions, please contact Nikki Santiago at (724) 561-9991 or by email at nikkisantiago18@yahoo.com

AMBRIDGE BANTAM TIP OFF APP

AMBRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL TIP OFF APP

PBC Hall of Famer, North Carolina and Blackhawk great Dante Calabria will be holding a “Become a Hot Shot with Dante Calabria” clinic at the Greentree Sportsplex on Saturday October 29, 2016. See the image below for the details.

Clinics for players in Grades 4-7 3-4:30 PM and Grades 8-12 will be held from 5-6:30 PM. The cost for the clinic is ONLY $25.00

I encourage all to take advantage of learning from one of Western PA’s all time best!

The 2016-17 PBC-BC Bantam League Rules meeting is set for November 1, 2016 at 7 PM at All Star Grille in Robinson Township (across road from The Mall at Robinson)

The 2016-17 league will again have divisions in grades 4-5-6 in a 6A/5A/4A and 3A/2A/1A divisions. The league will culminate with the PBC-BC Grade School Championships at Montour High School.

The 23rd annual Pittsburgh Basketball Fall League will tip off October 3, 2016. All league sites are completely SOLD OUT.

Games will be held at Central Catholic High School and Moon High School on Monday nights. Games will be held at Montour High School using both gyms beginning Wednesday October 5. Games will be held at Ambridge High School Tuesday October 4 and on Thursday nights beginning October 13, 2016.

Listed below are the game schedules. The schedules for the Moon-Montour-Ambridge are on the same document. Best of luck to all the teams preparing for the 2016-17 season tip off at the PBC Fall Leagues.

2016 Moon-Montour-Ambridge Master Schedule

2016 Central Catholic Fall Master

The Pittsburgh Basketball Club is proud to host our 23^rd annual Fall League. This year’s leagues will be held at Central Catholic HS on Monday nights beginning October 3 and on Wednesday nights at Montour, Moon and Ambridge beginning October 5.

Space is extremely limited! The leagues have practically pre booked to capacity! Please find the application below.

PBC Fall League

On behalf of the entire Pittsburgh Basketball Club family, we would like to extend our condolences to the family of Luke Blanock, who lost his brave fight to cancer last evening.

This past January, we were honored to present Luke with the PBC Courage Award and equally honored to rename the award the Luke Blanock Courage Award. Luke was given the microphone to give a brief speech of approximately 4 minutes. In those 4 minutes, Luke was given an audience which featured  many of the legends of the game of basketball in Western PA. At the conclusion of his speech, Luke became one in his own right.

In his speech, Luke showed vitality for life, a drive to believe, the courage to never give up. May the light he shined on the path of life shine brightly for us all, and may we all drink deeply from his example and love of life.

God speed my friend. Until we meet again.

Luke Blanock

1997-2016

Congratulations to Coach John Geiger and the Steel City Supreme AAU team. This team of rising 5^th graders finished an amazing AAU Summer with a outstanding 56-6 record and an appearance in the AAU national tourney. Team members include

Daniel Cain(Pittsburgh West Liberty) Ty Blatz (Montour), Jake Wolf (Montour),Keino Fitzpatrick (Montour), Parker Brennan (Montour), Brandon London (Shaler), Tyre Turner (Indiana), Liberty Beauford (Beaver Falls), Vern Settles ( Elizabeth Forward) Jayden Davis (Char Valley), Ty Iwanonkiw (Canon Mac)

Congrats to all participants, players and coaches alike. Job well done!

Congratulations to Coach Keenan Holmes and the GPU class of 2019 AAU team for another outstanding summer on the AAU circuit. Playing a national schedule, the team won the prestigious Hoop Group Jam Fest in Spooky neck, PA as well as participating in a variety of elite Adidas Gauntlet events throughout the nation.

Members of this team include- Keeno Holmes (Lincoln Park), Maceo Austin (Kennedy Catholic) Khori Fusco (Clairton), Ben Kelly (Fox Chapel), Thomas Melonja (Lincoln Park), Tre Mitchell (Elizabeth Forward), Alex Mullen (Bethel Park), Jaden Nelson (Trinity), Andrew Recchia (Mars), Kyi Wright (Farrell) Jakob Cervenak  (Peters)