Waves Aim For PCH Cup Sweep on Saturday at LMU

PEPPERDINE AT LOYOLA MARYMOUNT
Date: Saturday, February 1, 2020
Site: Gersten Pavilion (Los Angeles, California)
Time: 3 p.m.
TV: Spectrum SportsNet
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Pepperdine leads 103-69
Last Meeting: Waves 75, Lions 67 (1/16/2020 in Malibu)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2019-20 Record: 11-11
   WCC Record: 4-4
   Away Record: 4-5
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

LMU LIONS
2019-20 Record: 8-14
   WCC Record: 2-6
   Home Record: 7-5
Head Coach: Mike Dunlap
Website: www.LMULions.com
Twitter: @LMULionsMBB

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team heads over to PCH Cup rival Loyola Marymount on Saturday looking to sweep the season series and win at Gersten Pavilion for the first time 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. He had a team-high 20 points at BYU on Thursday.
• 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 first in total assists (162) and sixth in assists per game. Ross has more career assists than any junior in the country with 580 (second place is 48 assists behind).
• Ross set Pepperdine's career record for assists on December 14 and is now taking aim at the career scoring record. He broke into the Waves' all-time top 10 on Thursday and he's 244 points away from the record.
• The trio of Ross (second in the WCC at 19.8 ppg), Kameron Edwards (third at 17.1) and Kessler Edwards (11th at 13.8) has scored 63.6% of the Waves' points this season. Throw in Skylar Chavez (20th at 11.4), and that quartet has scored 77.7% of the Waves' points.
• Both Edwards — Kessler (third, 7.7) and Kameron (fifth, 7.1) — are in the top five in the WCC in rebounding. In WCC games only, Kameron is tied for first in rebounding (8.5). Kessler leads the WCC in blocked shots overall (1.5).
• Pepperdine ranks first nationally in free throw percentage at 80.8%. Ross leads the WCC at 87.3% and has made 124 free throws, fifth-most nationally.
• The Waves have been without multiple scholarship players due to injury or illness 19 times this season, and have been without at least three in 14 consecutive games. Keith Smith returned on Thursday after missing the previous 17 games. Only three players have appeared in every game this season.
• Pepperdine is home on Thursday (Feb. 6) against Santa Clara.

WAVECASTS — Saturday'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 1,060th consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

WATCH — The game will be televised locally by Spectrum SportsNet and elsewhere on ROOT Sports Northwest, NBC Sports California, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain and AT&T SportsNet Southwest. Fans in other markets can watch on the WCC Network through Stadium's Facebook page. Dave Friedman and Wyking Jones are the announcers. Jones has an uncommon place in the PCH Cup rivalry as an LMU basketball alum who would go on to serve as a Pepperdine assistant coach under Paul Westphal from 2002-06.

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.

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Players Mentioned

Skylar Chavez

Kameron Edwards

Kessler Edwards

Colbey Ross

Keith Smith

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