PEPPERDINE VS. JACKSON STATE
Date: Saturday, December 8, 2018
Site: Firestone Fieldhouse (Malibu, California)
Time: 7 p.m.
TV: none
Video: WaveCasts
Series: first meeting
Last Meeting: none
    
PEPPERDINE WAVES
2018-19 Record: 5-4
Home Record: 3-1
WCC Record: 0-0
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

JACKSON STATE TIGERS
2018-19 Record: 1-7
Away Record: 0-5
SWAC Record: 0-0
Head Coach: Wayne Brent
Website: www.GoJSUTigers.com
Twitter: @GoJSUTigers

WAVEPOINTS
• After dropping its last two games, the Pepperdine men's basketball team looks to get back in the win column on Saturday when the Waves host Jackson State.
• With finals and Christmas approaching, this is the Waves' final home game for the next three weeks.
• Heading into the 10th game of the season, the Waves will try again to already match last season's win total of six.
• Lorenzo Romar's second stint as head coach with the Waves is well underway. Romar now has 396 career wins, four shy of a milestone 400.
• Colbey Ross, who led the Waves with 19 points and six assists in Thursday's loss at UC Riverside, is fifth in the WCC in scoring (19.8) and second in assists (6.9). Nationally, he ranks tied for fourth in free throws made (63) and 10th in assists.
• Pepperdine leads the WCC in three-point shooting (40.1%, 9.4 per game). Three different Waves have made at least five three-pointers in a game this season. The Waves' percentage ranks 25th nationally.
• The Waves also lead the WCC in turnover margin (+4.2) and they've committed fewer turnovers than the opponent in eight of nine games.
• The Waves hope to stay healthy after being decimated by injuries the last two years. They lost 99 player-games in 2016-17 and 81 in 2017-18. But, last year's leading scorer, Kameron Edwards, has already missed six games, including the last five.
• After final exams this week, the Waves play their next three contests on the road, including a two-game trip to Southern Utah and Oregon State.
• To help Pepperdine students affected or displaced by the recent Woolsey Fire, please visit impact.pepperdine.edu/crisisresponse.

WAVECASTS — Saturday's game can be seen online with WaveCasts on TheW.tv. Veteran play-by-play man Al Epstein, a 2015 Pepperdine Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, will be behind the microphone (now in his 34th season, this will be his 1,013th consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

TICKETS — Single-game tickets for most Pepperdine home games are $25 for reserved seating, $15 for adult general admission and $12 for child general admission. Select premium games are $30, $20 and $12, respectively. Tickets are available via PepperdineWaves.com or by calling (310) 506-4935.

PEPPERDINE — Pepperdine boasts a one-of-a-kind athletic department with unprecedented success for a school of its size. The Waves have won NCAA Division I championships in five different men's sports — one of just 18 schools to have accomplished this feat — and nine overall. Of this elite group, Pepperdine has the smallest undergraduate enrollment, is the only school without football and is the only university that has not been affiliated with a "major" conference. The Waves have won a total of 25 team or individual national championships in their history. Pepperdine has also earned the Division I-AAA All-Sports Trophy, an award based on postseason success that's given to the top non-football school, three times (most recently in 2011-12). The Waves have produced 205 conference championships, 318 All-Americans and 53 Olympians. Located in scenic Malibu, California, the university overlooks the Pacific Ocean and its campus and athletic facilities are regularly voted among the nation's most beautiful. Pepperdine, which is affiliated with the Church of Christ, ranks #46 overall on U.S. News and World Report's list of America's best colleges.