The 2013–14 Pacific Tigers men's basketball team represented the University of the Pacific during the

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. They play their home games at the

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. 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

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. 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

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. 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

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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

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:

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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

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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:

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and Dan Belluomini ----

Portland

Series History: Pacific leads 20-8
Broadcasters:

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Gonzaga

Series History: Gonzaga leads series 3-1
Broadcasters: Greg Hesiter and Richard Fox ----

San Francisco

Series History: San Francisco leads 60-34
Broadcasters:

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& John Stege ----

Santa Clara

Series History: Santa Clara leads 89-41
Broadcasters:

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References

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Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

Pacific Tigers men's basketball The Pacific Tigers men's basketball team represents the University of the Pacific (United States), University of the Pacific. They are an NCAA Division I member, part of the West Coast Conference. The team is based in Stockton, California. They pl ...