PEPPERDINE AT ABILENE CHRISTIAN
Date: Saturday, November 16, 2019
Site: Moody Coliseum (Abilene, Texas)
Time: 7:30 p.m. CT / 5:30 p.m. PT
Video: ESPN3
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Pepperdine leads 2-1
Last Meeting: Waves 77, Wildcats 62 (12/1/2018 in Malibu)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2019-20 Record: 2-1
    Away Record: 1-1
    WCC Record: 0-0
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

ABILENE CHRISTIAN WILDCATS
2019-20 Record: 1-1
    Home Record: 1-0
    Southland Record: 0-0
Head Coach: Joe Golding
Website: www.ACUSports.com
Twitter: @ACU_MBB

WAVEPOINTS
• Coming off two strong victories, the Pepperdine men's basketball team makes its longest road trip of the season with Saturday's game at Abilene Christian.
• This is Pepperdine's only non-conference game outside the state of California.
• Pepperdine President Jim Gash (an ACU alum) is slated to take part in a halftime shooting competition with his counterpart, Abilene Christian President Dr. Phil Schubert.
• Colbey Ross continues his march toward the program's all-time assist record. He's already moved up two more spots to #3 on the list with 445. All that's left to pass is Mark Wilson (450) and Jeremy Major (494).
• Ross, who is averaging 15.3 points and 9.0 assists (ranking fourth nationally), was named to the Lou Henson Award preseason watch list (for the nation's top mid-major player) last week.
• Kessler Edwards, who took part in a USA Basketball U19 national team camp this summer and joined Ross on the preseason All-WCC team, posted career highs of 22 points and 15 rebounds at CSUN on Tuesday.
• Kameron Edwards has scored 21 and 22 points in the last two games.
• Newcomer Skylar Chavez has been in the starting lineup for the first three games of the season. He's hit three three-pointers in each game.
• Last year's Waves won 10 more games than the year before — one of just four times in school history Pepperdine has improved by double-digits in the win column. Lorenzo Romar has been the head coach for two of them.
• The Waves were picked to finish fourth in the WCC in the preseason coaches poll after placing eighth last season.
• The Waves are currently in a stretch of three consecutive road games (and six of seven away from home). They next visit USC on Tuesday (Nov. 19).

WAVECASTS — Saturday's game can be heard online via WaveCasts at PepperdineWaves.com. Veteran play-by-play man Al Epstein, a 2015 Pepperdine Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, will be behind the microphone (now in his 35th season, this will be his 1,041st consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

WATCH — Abilene Christian will live stream the game via ESPN3.

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 #50 overall on U.S. News and World Report's list of America's best colleges.