PEPPERDINE AT SAN FRANCISCO
Date: Thursday, February 14, 2019
Site: War Memorial at Sobrato Center (San Francisco, California)
Time: 7 p.m.
Video: TheW.tv
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: San Francisco leads 81-52 
Last Meeting: Dons 72, Waves 69 (1/3/2019 in Malibu)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2018-19 Record: 12-13
WCC Record: 5-6
Away Record: 2-8
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

SAN FRANCISCO DONS
2018-19 Record: 18-6
WCC Record: 6-4
Home Record: 12-1
Head Coach: Kyle Smith
Website: www.USFDons.com
Twitter: @USFDonsMBB

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team next plays three consecutive road games against three of the top four teams in the West Coast Conference, a stretch that begins Thursday at San Francisco.
• The Waves have won only one of their last nine games at USF.
• Colbey Ross is fifth in the WCC in scoring (18.6) and first in assists (7.3). Nationally, he's sixth in assists, second in free throws made (174) and first in attempts (206). 
• Ross, now 10th all-time in assists at Pepperdine with 362, needs one to get to ninth place, three to get to eighth place and 10 to get to seventh place. With 183 assists this season, he's 25 away from the school single-season record.
• Eric Cooper Jr. has made 64 three-pointers this season, 10th on Pepperdine's single-season list. He ranks second in the WCC in makes (2.6) and accuracy (42.4%).
• In Saturday's win vs. San Diego, the Waves had three players (Colbey Ross, Kameron Edwards, Kessler Edwards) get double-doubles in the same game for the first time since 1983. Kessler Edwards scored the go-ahead basket with 2.5 seconds left.
• Sixteen times this season, it's been a five-point game or less in the final five minutes. Eleven times this season, it's been a three-point game or less in the final minute.
• Lorenzo Romar has helped elevate the Waves as he begins his second stint as head coach. He recorded his milestone 400th career victory on January 12 at San Diego.
• 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. Their 10th win gave them double-digit wins for the first time since 2015-16.
• Pepperdine continues its Northern California trip at Saint Mary's on Saturday.
• To help Pepperdine students affected or displaced by November's Woolsey Fire, please visit impact.pepperdine.edu/crisisresponse.

WAVECASTS — Both games will have an audio-only 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 34th season, this will be his 1,029th consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

WATCH — Thursday's game will be produced by USF for TheW.tv. Pat Olson and Jim Brovelli are the announcers ... Saturday's game will be televised by Spectrum SportsNet and NBC Sports Area, and shown everywhere else on TheW.tv. Barry Tompkins and Dan Belluomini are the announcers.

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.