PORTLAND, Ore. — The Portland State women's basketball team added two former Oregon state title winners during the offseason in freshman Kyleigh Brown (Silverton, 2024) and sixth-year senior Cici Ellington (Benson Polytechnic, 2019). It's only fitting, then, that the Vikings add a local product to their coaching staff, which they have in former Portland Community College head coach Graham McFall.
 
McFall – who will serve as an assistant coach for the Vikings, working with the team's post players – stepped into the lead role at PCC in 2020. He took over the Panthers after they endured a one-win season the year before he arrived and led them to a program-record 21 wins just three seasons later.
 
McFall led the Panthers to winning seasons in two of his three seasons at the helm. He led the Panthers to what was then a program-best 18-12 record during the 2021-22 season before topping that with a 21-7 record in 2023-24. McFall's 2021-22 team also recorded PCC's first postseason win in program history when it beat Centralia, 86-75, in the first round of the NWAC Championship Tournament.
 
Overall, McFall went 49-35 over his three seasons at PCC after the Panthers had been 9-66 in the three years prior.
 
"Graham is a great addition to our staff," Portland State head coach Chelsey Gregg said of McFall. "He's a high-character person who is a well-connected recruiter at both the junior college and international levels, and brings several years of experience at various collegiate levels and positions. We're excited to have Graham as part of our program."
 
McFall's winning record at PCC was a tribute to his success developing players. In just three seasons at PCC, McFall saw 14 players move on to four-year schools at the end of their tenure with the Panthers. McFall led 6-2 forward Iris Cubit to first-team All-Region honors twice. Cubit averaged 15.1 points and 9.7 rebounds per game in South Region play this past season while leading the Panthers to their program-best win total.
 
"I would like to thank Coach Chelsey for this great opportunity to be a part of the program here at Portland State University. I'm looking forward to this new journey and am excited to get to work," McFall said of his hire.
 
McFall previously served from 2018-20 as an assistant coach for the women's basketball team at Lincoln University, an NCAA Division II school in Missouri. Additionally, he worked with men's teams at Indiana University Kokomo and IUPUI at the NAIA and NCAA Division I levels, respectively. McFall served as an assistant coach for Indiana University Kokomo during the 2016-17 season, while he was a student assistant video coordinator with IUPUI during the 2014-15 season.
 
McFall also has coaching stops in Australia where he holds dual citizenship along with his U.S. citizenship. McFall served as the Team Australia head coach for the Alexander Basketball Academy Global Squad, an AAU program, and was an assistant coach for the Caboolture Suns in Australia in 2016. While in Australia, he also worked with the OzSwoosh Academy, a basketball player development academy.
 
McFall holds a bachelor's degree in sports leadership from the University of Wisconsin Superior. He earned a master's of arts in higher education from Lincoln University, where he coached as an assistant.