SCC Men's Basketball Champions: LA Harbor 1st Since 2014, ELAC Captures 7th Straight Title
Los Angeles Harbor College won its third-ever South Coast Conference South Division men's basketball title, and it's first in nine years, while perennial state power East Los Angeles earned its seventh consecutive North Division championship.
The Seahawks, who shared the 2014 title with two other teams, won their first outright conference championship since 2011. Harbor (24-4 overall) went 9-1 to take first place in the South, only challenged by second-place Cerritos (7-3).
Long Beach, one of three teams to tie for third place at 4-6, handed the Seahawks their only defeat in conference play on Feb. 3, 81-65. However, Harbor twice beat Cerritos in conference play and handed East Los Angeles a rare loss in a SCC crossover game.
East LA (24-3) fought it out with Pasadena City (20-8, 6-2, second place) on Friday in front of a jam-packed PCC Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium crowd and closed out a perfect 8-0 conference run to capture the North title outright in an 88-69 win. The Huskies extended their North winning streak to now 28 games dating back to 2019.
ELAC Head Coach John Mosley (second from far right) is the architect of seven SCC titles in a row
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PLAYOFF SEEDINGS ANNOUNCED: 6 SCC TEAMS SELECTED
ELAC secured the #3 seed as one of six South Coast teams to make the 24-team, Southern California Regional Playoff field, announced on Sunday. Harbor grabbed the #6 seed followed by Cerritos at #9, Pasadena at #12, Long Beach at #15, and LA Southwest at #19.
Both the Huskies and Seahawks earned first-round byes while Cerritos will host #24 Copper Mountain, PCC hosts #21 Cerro Coso, LBCC hosts #18 Cypress, and LASW plays at #14 Riverside City in Round 1 games on Wednesday, Feb. 22.