Bio

Devin Aye was hired in June 2019 as the Men's Basketball Coach at San José City College. The 2024-25 season will mark his 19th year coaching men's collegiate basketball at the NCAA, NAIA, and California Community College levels, and his 11th season as a head coach in the community college ranks, where he has compiled an impressive overall record of 190-92. Aye was ranked the #1 NorCal JC Men's Basketball coach by NorCal Prep & Juco Basketball. Remarkably, 100% of the sophomores who completed their sophomore season under Coach Aye have received scholarship offers, with over 70 players transferring to universities.

The 2023-24 season concluded with the Jags earning the #4 seed in the state playoffs, finishing as Coast Conference Runners-Up, making a Sweet 16 appearance, and achieving a 22-8 overall record. Coach Aye was named the 2023 Coast South Conference Coach of the Year after leading the Jags to the Conference Championship, the State Final 8, and a #3 final state ranking. He is the only recent coach to win Coach of the Year and an outright Conference Championship in three separate conferences, all within his first three years at each college.

From 2017 to 2019, Coach Aye served as the inaugural Athletic Director and Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Copper Mountain College in Joshua Tree, CA. In just four months, he launched the athletic department and developed the curriculum for men’s and women’s intercollegiate basketball. The inaugural 2018-19 CMC team surprised the state with a top-5 “Signal the Light” ranking and a 20-10 overall record. In 2019-2020, Aye led CMC to a top-10 “Signal the Light” state ranking and gained attention by defeating #16 nationally-ranked NJCAA Arizona Western.

Aye's success includes three conference championships: Lassen College (2013 Golden Valley Conference), Cosumnes River College (2016 BIG 8 Conference), and San José City College (2023 Coast South Conference). He has also been honored as the Golden Valley Conference Coach of the Year (2012-13), BIG 8 Conference Coach of the Year (2015-16), and Coast South Conference Coach of the Year (2022-23).

In the 2016-17 season, Aye was the Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach at William Jessup University in Rocklin, CA, where he helped the team achieve a school-record #16 national ranking and an 18-13 overall record while competing in the nation’s top NAIA D1 conference (GSAC).

In 2015-16, as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, CA, Aye was hired just weeks before the school year began. He assembled a roster that won the BIG 8 Conference with only eight players, finishing the season 17-11. He recruited the conference MVP and an All-State recipient, Gerard Andrus, who later signed with an NCAA D1 University. Aye was named the 2016 BIG 8 Conference Coach of the Year.

In 2012, Aye inherited a Lassen College program that had won just three games combined over the previous two seasons. In his first year, he revitalized the program with a 23-9 record, a GVC championship, a top-10 state ranking, and a #9 seed in the NorCal playoffs. The 2012-13 season ended in the Sweet 16 of the California state men’s basketball playoffs. Aye was named the 2013 Golden Valley Conference Coach of the Year and was elected GVC Men's Basketball Executive Board Representative.

Throughout his 11 years as a head coach in the California Community College system, Aye has assisted over 70 student-athletes in earning university scholarships, with more than 20 of them playing professional basketball. He is currently the Coast South Conference Executive Board Representative for the California Community College Men’s Basketball Coaches Association.

SJCC Resume at a Glance:

• 2023-24: 22-8 overall, Coast Conference Runners-Up, Sweet 16, #4 NorCal seed (#8 Final State Ranking)
• 2022-23: 26-5 overall, Conference Champs, State Final 8, #2 NorCal seed (#3 Final State Ranking)
• 2021-22: 22-7 overall, Coast Conference Runners-Up, 2nd Round Regional State Playoffs, #10 NorCal seed (Top 20 Final State Ranking)
• 2020-21: No season (COVID)
• 2019-20: 11-17 overall, 11-win improvement from the Jags' previous season

Former Jags Moving On Under Coach Aye (4 seasons):

• Gavin Wilburn: Tarleton State University
• King Calhoun: Savannah State University
• Isaiah Saams-Hoy: Alaska Fairbanks University
• Malcolm Steadman: St. Mary's University-San Antonio
• Jacob Harper: St. Martins University
• Jurrien Sparks: Warner Pacific University
• Jordan Gill: University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Mison Coilton: Dakota State University
• Nikola Milojevic: Hawaii Pacific University
• Jerry Jackson III: Texas A&M Texarkana University
• Bryan Nguyen: University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Trent Blackshire: Mayville State University/Notre Dame-Cleveland
• Jaycson Bereal: University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Eli Russo: Hawaii Pacific University
• Melvin Lipsey: Florida National University
• EK Okechukwu: Westcliff University
• José Bermudez: University of Los Angeles-College of Divinity
• Jayvon Fisher: Jarvis Christian University
• Mark Wishom: Warner Pacific University

Former Jags Signing Pro:

• Alkan Ozusug (Turkey)
• Jaycson Bereal (China/Portugal)
• Bryan Nguyen (Vietnam)