PEPPERDINE VS. PACIFIC
Date: Thursday, January 2, 2020
Site: Firestone Fieldhouse (Malibu, California)
Time: 7 p.m.
TV: none
Video: WaveCasts on the WCC Network
Series: Pacific leads 37-32
Last Meeting: Waves 61, Tigers 53 (3/7/2019 in Las Vegas)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2019-20 Record: 7-7
    WCC Record: 0-0
    Home Record: 5-1
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

PACIFIC TIGERS
2019-20 Record: 12-4
    WCC Record: 0-0
    Away Record: 2-2
Head Coach: Damon Stoudamire
Website: www.PacificTigers.com
Twitter: @PacificMensBB

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team celebrates the start of a new year with the start of West Coast Conference play. The Waves begin the league schedule at home against Pacific on Thursday.
• Pepperdine won all four games during a recent homestand and will be trying to improve upon its 5-1 record in Firestone Fieldhouse.
• Colbey Ross, who set Pepperdine's career record for assists on December 14, is now taking aim at the career scoring record. He's up to 19th place, 401 points shy of the record.
• Ross is averaging a WCC-best 7.4 assists per game. Nationally, he's third in total assists (104) and sixth in assists per game. Ross has more career assists than any junior in the country with 522 (second place is 65 assists behind).
• The Waves boast three of the top seven scorers in the WCC: Ross (second at 19.9), Kameron Edwards (fourth at 17.0) and Kessler Edwards (seventh at 15.5). 
• Kessler Edwards leads the WCC in rebounding (8.3), blocked shots (1.6) and double-doubles (five).
• Other notable WCC stats: Ross is first in minutes (36.8) and fourth in three-pointers made (2.4), Kessler Edwards is third in three-point percentage (47.2%) and fifth in minutes (33.1), Darryl Polk Jr. is tied for fourth in steals (1.5), Skylar Chavez is sixth in three-pointers made (2.2) and Kameron Edwards is 10th in rebounding (6.2).
• The Waves have hit 80% or better of their free throws in 12 of their 14 games and they rank first nationally at 84.7%. Pepperdine has made 233 free throws as a team, sixth-most nationally. The Waves have three of the top four free throw shooters in the WCC (Ross first at 92.2%, Kameron third at 82.8% and Kessler fourth at 80.0%).
• The Waves visit #1 Gonzaga on Saturday.

WAVECASTS — Thursday's game can be seen online via WaveCasts on the WCC Network. 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 1,052nd consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

TICKETS — Single-game tickets for most Pepperdine home games are $25 for reserved seating, $15 for adult general admission and $12 for alumni or child general admission. Select premium games are $30, $20 and $15, respectively. Tickets are available via PepperdineWaves.com or by calling (310) 506-4764.

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.