Nov. 15, 2010
Pepperdine and Cal State Northridge Game Notes (Nov. 17, 2010) 
GAME INFORMATION
Date & Time: Wednesday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. PT
Location/Arena (capacity): Northridge, Calif./The Matadome (1,600)
Television/Radio/Internet
WaveCasts/PepperdineSports.com
Broadcaster: Spencer Thurling
GoMatadors.com
Broadcasters: Dave Caldwell/Neeta Sreekanth
The Coaches
Pepperdine - Julie Rousseau
Overall/School Record: 87-95, 7th year
WCC Record at Pepperdine: 44-40, 7th year
Cal State Northridge - Jason Flowers
Overall/School Record: 0-0, 1st year
Big West Record at CSUN: 0-0, 1st year
WAVE POINTS
BEYOND MATADOME: Wednesday night's game is the 26th meeting between Pepperdine and Cal State Northridge ... The Waves lead the all-time series, 22-3 and are 13-0 at home vs. CSUN, 8-2 on the road and 1-1 at neutral sites ... The two teams first met on Jan. 7, 1978, a 58-55 Matador victory in the championship game of the Chico State Tournament.
FREE! FREE! FREE!: All 15 of Pepperdine women's basketball home games and select road contests (including the game at CSUN) will be broadcast live and for FREE over the world wide web at PepperdineSports.com via WaveCasts ... Click on the video camera icon in the upper right corner of the site to view features plus a complete list of upcoming live events.
DID YOU KNOW?: Pepperdine has won six consecutive games vs. Cal State Northridge with an average margin of victory of 26 points during the streak and has not lost since a 69-62 setback to the Matadors on Nov. 20, 1999, at the Matadome ... The Waves have put together winning streaks of seven, nine and six vs. CSUN throughout the years.
LAST TIME OUT VS. CSUN: The Waves and Matadors have not met since playing in the season opener for both teams on Nov. 9, 2007 ... Playing at the friendly confines of Firestone Fieldhouse, Pepperdine dominated from the outset in a convincing victory, 70-38 ... The Waves held CSUN to less than 20 points in each half and 26 percent field-goal shooting ... The Matadors did not have a single player score in double digits ... Daphanie Kennedy led the Waves with a double-double, scoring 22 points and grabbing 10 rebounds as Pepperdine jumped out to a 37-19 halftime lead and never looked back.
TAKING THE BULL BY THE HORNS: Under the guidance of first year head coach, Jason Flowers, the Matadors return 11 letter winners and four starters from a season ago ... Junior Jasmine Erving earned All-Big West Second Team honors after averaging 13.6 points and 5.5 rebounds ... Sophomore Janelle Nomura also returns after an All-Big West Freshman season that saw her average 6.9 points and 2.9 rebounds and assists ... Cal State Northridge, picked ninth in 2010-11 Big West preseason poll, finished the 2009-2010 season with an overall mark of 4-24 and 2-14 in the Big West Conference ... CSUN is 14-22 in regular season openers and 16-20 in home openers.
WHY DON'T WE STEAL AWAY?: Pepperdine's 23 steals Sunday at Nevada were the most by a Julie Rousseau-coached team and marked the fourth time since January of 2009 that the Waves committed in excess of 20 thefts (vs. San Diego, Northern Arizona, at Hawai'i) ... Junior guard Jazmine Jackson led all players with seven steals, setting a personal single-game career high and Lauren Bell came away with five ... Overall, Pepperdine forced 37 Wolfpack turnovers and held them to only 40 FG attempts in a 66-61 loss in Reno ... The program's single-game steals record of 35 was set vs. UC Santa Barbara on 12/1/1987.
HEY NINETEEN: Jazmine Jackson currently ranks second in the West Coast Conference in scoring with 19.0 points per game ... Only Gonzaga's defending WCC Player of the Week Katelan Redmon has scored more with an average of 19.5 ppg ... Jackson also ranks among the conference's top-five performers in FG percentage (T5th-.500), rebounding (T4th-8.0), 3-point FG percentage (5th-.750) and steals (T3rd-4.5) with Lauren Bell.
DOUBLE-DOUBLE FOR DOUBLE J: Jazmine Jackson recorded the second double-double of her career Friday in the season-opening 68-56 win over UC Santa Barbara, collecting 19 points and rebounds ... This was her first double-double since her freshman year of 2008-09 when she posted 12 points and 10 boards at Cal State Bakersfield ... Jackson is the only player on the Waves' roster to have reached this milestone ... Her 10 rebound game vs. the Gauchos was the fifth of her collegiate career, tying a personal best ... And her 19 points marked the 34th time she has scored in double figures.
SKYE'S THE LIMIT: Junior forward Skye Barnett reached a personal milestone Friday vs. UCSB after pulling down a career high 12 rebounds ... Her previous single-game high of nine was recorded on three previous occasions vs. San Diego (1/15/09), at San Diego State (12/8/09) and at UCSB (12/20/09) ... Nine of her boards came on the defensive end of the court as she finished two points shy of her first career double-double ... She also led the club Friday with two blocks and assisted on two field goals.
300 AT FIRESTONE WITHIN REACH: Friday's nights win over UC Santa Barbara lifted the women's basketball team's all-time record at Firestone Fieldhouse to 298-168 (.639) ... The earliest the Waves could reach their milestone 300th victory would be on Tuesday, Nov. 23 vs. Boise State.
NO OPENING-NIGHT JITTERS: Since game-by-game records started being kept prior to the 1976-77 campaign, Pepperdine owns a 21-14 record in season openers, including Friday's 68-56 win over UC Santa Barbara ... The Waves had started their year vs. UC Santa Barbara twice previously, beating them 84-55 in Nov. of 1978 at the Cal Poly Tournament and 93-57 at home in Dec. of 1987 ... Pepperdine has won its last four-straight season openers after losing six in a row from 2001 to 2006 ... Including Friday, Pepperdine has started 15 seasons at home, 12 on neutral courts and eight away from Firestone Fieldhouse ... The Waves are 11-4 in home season openers.
WAVES ENTER FIFTH DECADE OF WBB: The 36th season of Pepperdine women's basketball officially began Friday night when the Waves took to the court at Firestone Fieldhouse vs. regional rival UC Santa Barbara ... The past decade (2000-10) of women's hoops was especially good for coaches Mark Trakh and Julie Rousseau as they combined for a .556 winning percentage, four 20-win seasons, three WCC Tournament Championships and four NCAA Appearances ... Additionally, Tamara McDonald (2003) was named WCC Player of the Year ... NeSha Thomas (2001) and Kelsey Ball (2006) Earned WCC Defender of the Year honors and Damaris Hinojosa (2000) was tabbed WCC Freshman of the Year ... 29 players were recognized as All-WCC selections, another seven made the WCC All-Freshman Team and 12 received the distinction of being named WCC All-Academic.
WAVES BOTTLE UP WARRIORS: Pepperdine got the job done on both ends of the court in last Monday (11/1) night's 98-56 exhibition victory over Westmont College ... The Waves forced 30 turnovers, pulled down 25 rebounds off the defensive glass and watched the Warriors go cold at the free-throw line as they made only 40 percent of their shots (8-for-20) ... Offensively, five players scored in double figures for the Waves led by Shay Cooney-Williams' 21-point effort on 8-of-12 shooting ... Kelsey Patrick was a perfect 5-for-5 from the field and added six points from the charity stripe on top of coming back with five offensive rebounds ... Patrick would finish the game two boards short of a double-double ... Jazmine Jackson and Lauren Bell led all players with six assists each.
COACH'S CORNER: Throughout the 2010-11 women's basketball season Pepperdine head coach Julie Rousseau and Director of Sports Productions Kira Elste will bring fans a closer look at the program with their new weekly interview show "Coach's Corner" ... Episodes are currently available to view via the All Access page (click on the video camera icon) at PepperdineSports.com ... The show is taped Tuesday mornings at Pepperdine's Joslyn Plaza, which overlooks the remolded central campus and the Pacific coastline.
THIS YEAR'S MODEL: Pepperdine returns four starters from last year's WNIT squad that posted a 20-12 record and finished as the conference runner up to Gonzaga at the Zappos.com WCC Basketball Championships ... The Waves' opening night lineup is expected to include returning guards Jazmine Jackson, Lauren Bell and Katie Menton, and forward Skye Barnett ... Alex Jarrell will likely move into the starting center position ... A veteran of 60 games, Jarrell accumulated 59 rebounds in 2009-10 and was the team's second-leading blocker with 13 ... Senior Joy Lelo leads a deep and experienced bench that features several others who played in more than 20 games a year ago, including WCC All-Freshman team selection Shay Cooney-Williams ... As a team, Pepperdine finished 2009-10 ranked 11th in the nation in turnover margin at 6.13 ... Individually, Miranda Ayim ranked 16th in blocked shots (2.6).
BE A PART OF IT!: After successfully increasing women's basketball attendance by 24% and season ticket sales by 11% across the league with the help of the NCAA Women's Basketball Grant last year, the Pepperdine University women's basketball team and the West Coast Conference look to improve exposure and attendance during the 2010-11 season with the WCC "Be A Part of It" campaign ... This conference-wide community service initiative encourages WCC fans to come to basketball games and support their favorite WCC basketball teams both on and off the court ... Over a series of four games determined by Pepperdine, fans will be invited to take part in various community service initiatives such as WBCA's Pink Zone and Soles4Souls.
STRIVING FOR GREATNESS THROUGH SERVICE: The women's basketball team is one of the most involved teams at Pepperdine in terms of community service ... In the summer, the team put on a series of basketball clinics for local youth to attend and later it worked at a Santa Monica convalescent home in early September during "Step Forward Day" ... This level of involvement, head coach Julie Rousseau believes, is the key to success in life and on the court - which is giving to others and making the world a better place.
A RAPPER NAMED JACKSON: The WCC women's basketball coaches tabbed Pepperdine junior guard Jazmine Jackson to the Preseason All-Conference Team ... A two-time All-WCC Honorable Mention, Jackson enjoyed a fine sophomore season in 2009-10 in which she collected over 100 boards on the defensive end and led Pepperdine in steals with the fifth-best average in the WCC at 1.9 per game ... Jackson also averaged 11.5 points per game and dished out a team-high 87 assists.
SUMMER CHAMPS: Jackson and Lauren Bell won the 2010 San Francisco Bay Area Women's Pro Am Championship with their Mission Rec Center Team in early August after beating Golden State, 75-70, in game two of their best-of-three series ... Mission Rec rallied in the final minutes to win the title, holding a squad that featured five players from Stanford's 2010-11 roster scoreless over the final three minutes ... Mission Rec won the first game 77-61.
COACHES COME BACK: Previous Pepperdine women's basketball staffers Kristen Dowling and David Johnson returned to the Waves' bench this past summer ... Johnson, an assistant on Rousseau's first Pepperdine team in 2004-05, left an Aquinas (Calif.) High School boys' basketball team that won the previous three Christian League championships ... Dowling, who served as a graduate assistant from 2006 to 2008, returned to Malibu from Cal State Bakersfield where she was part of a coaching staff that guided the Roadrunners to the two best records in school history.
SPANNING THE GLOBE: Former Pepperdine three-time All-WCC first team selection Miranda Ayim was selected to Canada's Senior Women's National Team as an alternate this past summer and played throughout Europe in preparation for 2010 FIBA World Championship ... She is now playing for the Alanya team based in Turkey ... Elsewhere in Europe, Daphanie Kennedy — a Wave from 2005-08 — is currently playing for a team in Spain.
ABOUT PEPPERDINE: Pepperdine boasts a one-of-a-kind athletic department with unprecedented success for a school of its size. The Waves have won a total of nine NCAA championships in five different men's sports - one of just 14 schools to have accomplished this feat. Of the 14, Pepperdine is the only non-BCS school and has by far the smallest enrollment. The majority of Pepperdine's teams are ranked nationally year after year and compete for conference and national titles.
