PEPPERDINE AT SAN DIEGO
Date: Saturday, January 12, 2019
Site: Jenny Craig Pavilion (San Diego, California)
Time: 1 p.m.
TV: Spectrum SportsNet
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: San Diego leads 63-44 
Last Meeting: Toreros 68, Waves 66 (2/8/2018 in Malibu)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2018-19 Record: 8-9
WCC Record: 1-2
Away Record: 0-6
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

SAN DIEGO TOREROS
2018-19 Record: 12-5
WCC Record: 1-1
Home Record: 9-0
Head Coach: Sam Scholl
Website: www.USDToreros.com
Twitter: @usdmbb

WAVEPOINTS
• After a pair of closely contested three-point losses, the Pepperdine men's basketball team hopes to break through in Saturday afternoon's West Coast Conference Game of the Week at San Diego.
• Lorenzo Romar's second stint as head coach with the Waves is off to a good start. Romar's next victory will be a milestone 400th career win.
• Jadé Smith was named WCC Player of the Week on Monday after averaging team highs of 15.7 points and 8.0 rebounds over three games.
• The Toreros have yet to lose at home this season, while the Waves are looking for their first road win.
• The Waves are 1-4 in games decided by four points or fewer.
• Colbey Ross is fifth in the WCC in scoring (18.5) and first in assists (7.4). Nationally, he's fifth in assists and among the top four in free throws made and attempted (109-for-134). He's coming off his fifth point-assist double-double of the season.
• Six Waves currently have scoring averages in double-figures.
• Four different players have had double-doubles in the last two games. Ross had 13 points and 10 assists and Kessler Edwards had 13 points and 11 rebounds at Santa Clara.
• The Waves lead the WCC and are 18th nationally in turnover margin (+4.3). Only once in 17 games has Pepperdine committed more turnovers than the opponent.
• The Waves also lead the WCC in three-pointers made per game (9.0). The Waves haven't finished in the top three in the conference in this category in a decade.
• The team's free throw percentage of 74.0% is on pace to be the third-best success rate in program history.
• The Waves matched their 2017-18 win total of six in their 10th game, and surpassed it with their seventh win in the 14th game.
• The Waves return home to host BYU on Thursday in a game that will be on ESPNU.
• To help Pepperdine students affected or displaced by November's Woolsey Fire, please visit impact.pepperdine.edu/crisisresponse.

WAVECASTS — Saturday's game can be listened to online with WaveCasts. 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 1,021st consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

WATCH — The San Diego game is the WCC Game of the Week and it will air locally on Spectrum SportsNet and elsewhere on NBC Sports Bay Area, ROOT Sports Northwest and AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain. It will be available everywhere else on TheW.tv. Dan Hellie and Casey Jacobsen have the call.

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.