Men's Basketball Drops Non-Conference Finale at SJSU

Saturday, December 28

San Jose, Calif.

6:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

7-7

San Jose State

4-10

Team	1	2	F
Pepperdine	32	36	68
San Jose State	42	41	83

Kameron Edwards

Photo by: Roger Horne

Men's Basketball Drops Non-Conference Finale at SJSU

12/28/2019 9:19:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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By: by Athletic Communications

SAN JOSE, California – The Pepperdine men's basketball team closed out non-conference play with an 83-68 loss at San Jose State on Saturday night.

The Spartans (4-10) made a season-high 13 three-pointers and held the Waves (7-7) to 36.9% shooting overall.

BIG WAVES

Senior forward Kameron Edwards (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif./Etiwanda HS) scored a team-high 19 points and had six rebounds.
Junior guard Colbey Ross (Aurora, Colo./Eaglecrest HS) collected 14 points and 11 assists. It was his second point-assist double-double of the season and the 10th of his career.
Junior guard Skylar Chavez (Woodacre, Calif./Drake HS/Santa Rosa JC) scored 13 points and made three three-pointers.

KEY STATS

Pepperdine shot 31.3% in the first half and 42.4% in the second half for 36.9% overall.
San Jose State shot 43.2% in the first half and 41.9% in the second half for 42.6% overall.
SJSU came into the game averaging 6.7 three-pointers and shooting 28.3% from distance but made eight in the first half and finished with double-figure three-pointers for the first time this season. The Spartans went 13-for-34 (38.2%). Pepperdine was 8-for-25 (32.0%).
The Waves just about doubled up the Spartans on turnovers, committing 13 to SJSU's seven.
SJSU was led by Brae Ivey's 23 points.

PLAY BY PLAY

The Waves jumped out to leads of 2-0 and 5-2 but those would be their only two of the night. The Spartans then hit three three-pointers to go ahead 11-5. They hit two more threes in an 8-0 run that extended the lead to 21-12 with 9 1/2 minutes left. SJSU's advantage hit double-digits for the first time at 34-24 and the Spartans would go up by as many as 14 at 38-24 before going into the half with a 42-32 lead.

Pepperdine made a run early in the second half. Baskets by Edwards and Chavez cut the deficit to three at 47-44 with 15 1/2 minutes to go. The Spartans, however, responded with an 11-2 run to push the lead back up to 12 at 58-46. Pepperdine would get no closer than nine on three different occasions the rest of the way.

NOTABLES

This was the eighth time in non-conference play that the Waves were missing at least three scholarship players due to injury or illness.
Pepperdine saw its four-game winning streak – its longest since January 2016 – come to an end.
San Jose State leads the all-time series 26-22.

UP NEXT

Pepperdine opens up West Coast Conference play at home on Thursday (Jan. 2) at 7 p.m. against Pacific. The game can be seen via WaveCasts on the WCC Network with Al Epstein on the call.