Pima College men’s basketball coach Brian Peabody engineered a milestone upset over No. 1 ranked Phoenix College last week, 89-76, by playing aggressively defensively; the Aztecs limited PC to 34 percent shooting, including 9-of-40 from three-point distance. Phoenix College had just swept a three-game trip against touted opponents in Texas. How did Pima win it? Tucson High grad Murphy Gershman almost had a triple-double: he scored 23, had 14 rebounds and eight assists, in one of the top individual games in PCC history. The Aztecs, 5-2, figure to be 7-2 when they travel to undefeated Cochise College on Dec. 10 to take on Jerry Carrillo’s (cq Jerry Carrillo’s) perennial contenders in Douglas.
Milestone for Brian Peabody
Pima Community College coach Brian Peabody gestures to some of his players as they go through drills in Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday, November 11, 2003.
