PEPPERDINE AT SANTA CLARA
Date: Thursday, January 10, 2019
Site: Leavey Center (Santa Clara, California)
Time: 8 p.m.
Video: TheW.tv
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Santa Clara leads 77-60 
Last Meeting: Waves 85, Broncos 69 (3/2/2018 in Las Vegas)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2018-19 Record: 8-8
WCC Record: 1-1
Away Record: 0-5
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

SANTA CLARA BRONCOS
2018-19 Record: 9-7
WCC Record: 1-1
Home Record: 7-3
Head Coach: Herb Sendek
Website: www.SantaClaraBroncos.com
Twitter: @santaclarahoops

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team takes its first West Coast Conference road trip this weekend, starting at Santa Clara on Thursday.
• 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.
• Jade' 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 Waves have lost four consecutive regular-season games to the Broncos, as well as four straight in the Leavey Center. But at last year's WCC Championships, Pepperdine shot a tournament-record 70.8% and beat SCU in the first round.
• Colbey Ross is fifth in the WCC in scoring (18.9) and first in assists (7.3). Nationally, he's sixth in assists and among the top three in free throws made and attempted (106-for-128).
• Six Waves currently have scoring averages in double-figures.
• The Waves lead the WCC and are 26th nationally in turnover margin (+4.1). Only once in 16 games has Pepperdine committed more turnovers than the opponent.
• The Waves also lead the WCC in three-pointers made per game (8.9).
• The team's free throw percentage of 74.3% is on pace to be the second-best success rate in program history.
• Pepperdine was hoping to stay healthy after being decimated by injuries the last two years. The Waves lost 99 player-games in 2016-17 and 81 in 2017-18. Thankfully, Kameron Edwards, who missed 10 games, returned against Alabama A&M and he's averaging 15.0 points in the past three games.
• 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 continue this road trip with Saturday afternoon's WCC Game of the Week at San Diego.
• To help Pepperdine students affected or displaced by November's Woolsey Fire, please visit impact.pepperdine.edu/crisisresponse.

WAVECASTS — Both games 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 1,020th consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

WATCH — The Santa Clara game will be available to Southern California viewers on TheW.tv. It will be televised by NBC Sports Bay Area, ROOT Sports Northwest and AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain. Guy Haberman and Dan Belluomini are the announcers ... 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.