PEPPERDINE VS. ARIZONA
Date: Thursday, November 28, 2019
Site: Anaheim Arena (Anaheim, California)
Time: 8 p.m.
TV: ESPN2
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Arizona leads 5-0
Last Meeting: Wildcats 94, Waves 71 (12/28/2001 in Tucson)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2019-20 Record: 3-3
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

ARIZONA WILDCATS
2019-20 Record: 6-0
Head Coach: Sean Miller
Website: www.ArizonaWildcats.com
Twitter: @APlayersProgram

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team will spend the holiday weekend in Anaheim at the Paycom Wooden Legacy, where the Waves will open the tournament against #14 Arizona on Thanksgiving night.
• The Wooden Legacy is of course named after UCLA coaching legend John Wooden — the great-grandfather of Pepperdine director of operations John Impelman.
• Pepperdine is facing its third Pac-12 opponent in the season's first seven games.
• This is just the second time that the Waves will play on Thanksgiving. The other was at the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout in a loss to Green Bay.
• Colbey Ross scored a career-high 38 points against USC last week — the most-ever by a Wave against a Power 5 team. He ranks second in the WCC in scoring (20.7) and first in assists (7.0).
• Ross continues his march toward the program's all-time assist record. He's gone from #5 to #2 on the list already this season and now has 460. All that's left to pass is Jeremy Major's total of 494. He has more career assists than any junior in the country.
• Kameron Edwards (17.5 ppg) is third in the WCC in scoring and Kessler Edwards (13.7 ppg) is tied for 11th. Kessler leads the WCC in rebounding (8.2) and Kameron is seventh (6.3).
• The trio of Ross and the Edwards brothers has combined to score 66.0% of the Waves' points this season.
• The Waves have made 80% of their free throws or better in each of the first six games and they lead the nation in this category at 85.6%.
• Pepperdine has already beaten two 2019 NCAA Tournament teams (UC Irvine and Abilene Christian).
• 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.
• Romar led Washington to the 2014 Wooden Legacy title.
• Friday's Wooden Legacy game will be against either UCF or Penn at 8:30 p.m. (with a win) or 6 p.m. (with a loss).

GAME #7 — Thursday (November 28) at the Anaheim Arena in Anaheim, California: Pepperdine (3-3) vs. #14 Arizona (6-0) at 8 p.m.

GAME #8 — Friday (November 29) at the Anaheim Arena in Anaheim, California: Pepperdine vs. either Penn (3-2) or UCF (3-1) at either 6 p.m. (with a first-round loss) or 8:30 p.m. (with a first-round win).

GAME #9 — Sunday (December 1) at the Anaheim Arena in Anaheim, California: Pepperdine vs. either Charleston (3-2), Long Beach State (2-4), Providence (4-2) or Wake Forest (3-2), time TBD.

WAVECASTS — All three Wooden Legacy games 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 1,044th, 1,045th and 1,046th consecutive broadcasts for the Waves).

TELEVISION — All Wooden Legacy games will be shown on the ESPN family of networks. Roxy Bernstein and Jon Crispin will call the Waves' first game on ESPN2. The other broadcasting duo is Eric Rothman and Corey Williams.

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.