PEPPERDINE AT BRIGHAM YOUNG
Date: Thursday, January 30, 2020
Site: Marriott Center (Provo, Utah)
Time: 6:30 p.m. MT / 5:30 p.m. PT
TV: CBS Sports Network
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: BYU leads 14-9
Last Meeting: Cougars 87, Waves 76  (1/17/2019 in Malibu)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2019-20 Record: 11-10
    WCC Record: 4-3
    Away Record: 4-4
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

BYU COUGARS
2019-20 Record: 15-7
    WCC Record: 4-3
    Home Record: 9-1
Head Coach: Mark Pope
Website: www.BYUCougars.com
Twitter: @BYUbasketball

WAVEPOINTS
• After winning four of the last five games, the Pepperdine men's basketball team has climbed into a tie for third place in the West Coast Conference. On Thursday night, the Waves visit one of the three other teams tied for third, BYU.
• The Waves are trying for their first win in the Marriott Center since 2015.
• Kameron Edwards, who was recently named one of 30 candidates for the Senior CLASS Award, earned WCC Player of the Week honors on Monday after averaging 18.5 points and 11.0 rebounds in the Waves' two victories last weekend.
• Colbey Ross was recently named to the Lou Henson Award midseason watch list. He is averaging a WCC-best 7.4 assists per game. Nationally, he's second in total assists (155) and fifth in assists per game. Ross has more career assists than any junior in the country with 573 (second place is 41 assists behind).
• Ross set Pepperdine's career record for assists on December 14 and is now taking aim at the career scoring record. He needs 15 points to break into the Waves' all-time top 10 and he's 260 points away from the record.
• The trio of Ross (second in the WCC at 20.0 ppg), Kameron Edwards (third at 16.9) and Kessler Edwards (13th at 13.8) has scored 63.6% of the Waves' points this season. Throw in Skylar Chavez's 11.8 points per game (19th in the WCC), and that quartet has scored 78.1% of the Waves' points.
• Both Edwards — Kessler (second, 7.9) and Kameron (fifth, 7.2) — are in the top five in the WCC in rebounding. In WCC games only, Kameron is first in rebounding (9.0). Kessler leads the WCC in blocked shots overall (1.5).
• Pepperdine ranks first nationally in free throw percentage at 81.4%. Ross leads the WCC at 87.3% and has made 117 free throws, sixth-most nationally.
• The Waves have been without multiple scholarship players due to injury or illness 18 times this season, and have been without four of them in each of the last six games. Only three players have appeared in every game this season.
• Pepperdine comes back to Southern California but stays on the road in its next game, visiting PCH Cup rival Loyola Marymount on Saturday (Feb. 1).

WAVECASTS — Thursday'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 1,059th consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

WATCH — The game will be televised nationally by CBS Sports Network. Jason Horowitz and Ryan Hollins 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 #50 overall on U.S. News and World Report's list of America's best colleges.