MALIBU, Calif. -- Following are some of the notes from the Pepperdine men's basketball's summer prospectus/quick facts, attached as a PDF above.

-- The Pepperdine men's basketball team has been marked by instability in recent years, but not during this offseason, and that's why Tom Asbury was brought back to lead the team. Three seniors departed from the 2008-09 team, and all 12 players who were able to come back have done so. Additionally, there were no changes on the coaching staff. It's been more than a decade since every possible player that could return did so.

-- It appears that 12 returning lettermen are the most in program history for Pepperdine.

-- One notable thing about Pepperdine's 12 returning letterwinners, however, is that not a single one is a senior. The Waves' 2009-10 squad breakdown is zero seniors, four juniors, eight sophomores and three freshmen.

-- Pepperdine's 12 returning letterwinners account for 82.5% percent of last year's scoring (1629/1974), 88.3% of the rebounds (919/1041), 65.4% of the assists (223/341), 95.0% of the blocked shots (96/101) and 77.2% of the steals (166/215).

-- The Waves will be looking for a great deal of growth out of their eight sophomores. Last year as freshmen most of them played a key role, accumulating more than half of the team's total points (57.4%, 1133/1974).

-- In terms of total points scored, Pepperdine returns its top five point-scorers from a year ago (four of the five were freshmen and the other was a sophomore).

-- Keion Bell was the first Pepperdine player since 2002-03 to lead the team in points (12.9), assists (2.2) and steals (1.5), and he did so as a freshman. He was named to the WCC All-Freshman team. He was Pepperdine's only player to average double-figures in points for the season.

-- Bell, Mychel Thompson (9.6 ppg, team-high-tied 35 three-pointers made), Taylor Darby (6.1 ppg, team-high 6.1 rpg) and Corbin Moore (3.1 ppg, 4.6 rpg) are the returning starters.

-- Pepperdine's three incoming freshmen haven't exactly come the traditional route. Tanner Kerry is from Australia, Caleb Willis sat out a year after graduating from high school in order to get himself into better shape (he dropped roughly 50 pounds) and Josh Lowery did not play his senior year (he played varsity as an eighth-grader in Washington and the state of Arizona did not allow him to play a fifth year of high school).

-- In non-conference play, the Waves will end up playing nine home games, five road contests and two neutral-site games.

-- Nine opponents took part in postseason play last season. Gonzaga, Portland State, UCLA and Utah made the NCAA Tournament, Miami (Fla.) and Saint Mary's were in the NIT, Wyoming was in the College Basketball Invitational and Pacific and Portland were in the inaugural CollegeInsider.com Tournament.

-- It's believed that Pepperdine and Duke might be the only two programs in the country where all three assistant coaches are alums of the school. Associate head coach Marty Wilson is a member of the class of 1989, while Damin Lopez graduated in 1994 and Will Kimble did so in 2004.

-- Several of Pepperdine's players have excellent bloodlines. Mychel Thompson's father was the #1 overall pick in the 1978 NBA Draft and a 12-year veteran in the NBA. Dane Suttle Jr.'s father is Pepperdine's all-time leading scorer and he also went on to play in the NBA with the Kansas City Kings. Richard Branning's father played basketball at Notre Dame and was drafted by the Indiana Pacers. Tanner Kerry's father swam in the Olympics for Australia and won a gold medal and two bronze medals.

-- All 12 returners and the three newcomers were in Malibu for at least one session of summer school. A majority of the team took part in the Say No Classic, a summer league in Los Angeles.

-- Some of the Say No Classic numbers through mid-August, according to the league's website: Keion Bell was sixth in the Los Angeles Division in scoring (20.8 ppg in six games) and fifth in assists (3.7 apg), Dane Suttle was ninth in scoring (18.0 ppg in five games) and Caleb Willis was third in three-point field-goal percentage (10-for-18, 55.5%). In the Pomona Division, Mychel Thompson was sixth in scoring (21.6 ppg in seven games) and sixth in rebounding (6.0 rpg).