The 2013–14 Pacific Tigers men's basketball team represented the University of the Pacific during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They play their home games at the Alex G. Spanos Center. This was season of new beginnings for the Tigers. Gone after 25 seasons was long-time head coach Bob Thomason. The new head coach of the Tigers was former assistant Ron Verlin. Verlin arrived with much experience. Verlin had been the associate head coach for the Tigers for 19 seasons under Thomason. Verlin becomes the 20th head coach in the history of Tiger basketball.
In addition to the new coach, Pacific joined a new conference, the West Coast Conference. Pacific was one of the founders of what became the WCC. Now, after four decades, the Tigers returned allowing the WCC to return to a travel partner scenario. Pacific and Saint Mary's became travel partners. The other four sets of travel partners were San Francisco and Santa Clara, Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine, Gonzaga and Portland, and BYU and San Diego.
The Tigers finished the season 18–16, 6–12 in WCC play to finish in a tie for eighth place. They lost in the first round of the WCC tournament to Santa Clara. They were invited to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament where they defeated Grand Canyon, Texas A&M Corpus–Christi and fellow WCC member San Diego to advance to the semifinals where they lost to Murray State.
Before the season
Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Notes Colin Beatty 2 G 205 Lanham, Maryland Graduated Reed Kamler 10 G 185 San Rafael, California Graduated Lorenzo McCloud 11 G 170 Los Angeles, California Graduated Rodrigo De Souza 21 G 200 São Paulo, Brazil Graduated Markus Duran 22 G 185 Murray, Utah Graduated Travis Fulton 24 F 220 Corona, California Graduated Jordan Turner 25 F 190 Oakland, California Graduated In addition to the 7 listed, Andrew Bock and Trevin Harris also graduated. However they both have one year of eligibility remaining and will return to the team for the 2013–14 season.
Recruiting Currently two players have committed to join the Tigers for the 2013–14 season. More are expected to be announced, probably from the Junior College ranks.
Roster
Schedule Pacific basketball will see an increased amount of television exposure for the 2013–14 season. Every conference game is guaranteed to be on an ESPN Network, WCC TV, WCC Network, or a local TV station (Comcast, ROOT, Time Warner, FSSD, or BYUtv). Untelevised non-conference home games will likely be switch from Big West TV to Stretch Internet.
!colspan=8 style="background:#FF7F00; color:#000000;"|Exhibition
!colspan=8 style="background:#000000; color:#FF7F00;"| Regular season
!colspan=8 style="background:#FF7F00;"| WCC tournament
!colspan=8 style="background:#000000; color:#FF7F00;"| CIT
Game summaries
Exhibition: Cal State Stanislaus Broadcaster: Zach Bayrouty
Exhibition: Montana Tech Broadcaster: Zach Bayrouty
Nevada Series History: Pacific leads 53-44 Broadcaster: Ryan Radtke
UC Irvine Series History: Pacific leads 42-37 Broadcaster: Zach Bayrouty
Western Illinois Series History: Pacific leads 1-0 Broadcaster: Zach Bayrouty
Fresno State Series History: Pacific leads 78-77 Broadcaster: Zach Bayrouty
Global Sports Classic: Oregon Series History: Oregon leads 6-2 Broadcasters: Aaron Goldsmith and Ernie Kent
Global Sports Classic: Cal Poly Series History: Pacific leads 34-14
Global Sports Classic: North Dakota Series History: Series tied 1-1
Utah State Series History: Utah State leads 44-23 Broadcasters: Evan Nyman and Rod Tueller
Menlo College
South Point Holiday Classic: Princeton Series History: First Meeting
South Point Holiday Classic: Bradley Series History: Bradley leads 1-0
Saint Mary's Series History: Saint Mary's leads 66-43 Broadcasters: Barry Tompkins and Dan Belluomini
Portland Series History: Pacific leads 20-8 Broadcasters: Tom Glasgow & Bill Krueger
Gonzaga Series History: Gonzaga leads series 3-1 Broadcasters: Greg Hesiter and Richard Fox
San Francisco Series History: San Francisco leads 60-34 Broadcasters: Rich Cellini & John Stege
Santa Clara Series History: Santa Clara leads 89-41 Broadcasters: Barry Tompkins and Jarron Collins
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