PEPPERDINE VS. SAN DIEGO
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2020
Site: Firestone Fieldhouse (Malibu, California)
Time: 8 p.m.
TV: Spectrum SportsNet
Audio: WaveCasts
Serie: Pepperdine leads 66-44
Last Meeting: Waves 85, Toreros 78 (1/11/2020 in San Diego)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2019-20 Record: 13-12
    WCC Record: 6-5
    Home Record: 8-3
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

SAN DIEGO TOREROS
2019-20 Record: 9-17
    WCC Record: 2-9
    Away Record: 3-7
Head Coach: Sam Scholl
Website: www.USDToreros.com
Twitter: @usdmbb

WAVEPOINTS
• With three weeks left in the West Coast Conference's regular season, the Pepperdine men's basketball team needs a strong finish to keep its spot in the top half of the standings. The Waves are home for three of the final five games, starting with Thursday's contest against San Diego.
• Pepperdine is looking to sweep the regular-season series from USD for the second straight year.
• Colbey Ross is on the Lou Henson Award midseason watch list. He is averaging a WCC-best 7.3 assists per game. Nationally, he's first in total assists (183) and fifth in assists per game. Ross has more career assists than any junior in the country with 601 (second place is 44 assists behind). He's 27 assists away from entering the WCC's all-time top 10.
• Ross set Pepperdine's career record for assists on December 14 and is now taking aim at the career scoring record. He's 19 points away from sixth place and he's 186 points away from the record.
• The trio of Ross (second in the WCC at 19.7 ppg), Kameron Edwards (third at 17.3) and Kessler Edwards (12th at 13.8) has scored 64.0% of the Waves' points this season. Throw in Skylar Chavez (21st at 11.1), and that quartet has scored 77.8% of the Waves' points.
• Both Edwards — Kessler (third, 7.5) and Kameron (fifth, 7.0) — are in the top five in the WCC in rebounding. Kessler leads the WCC in blocked shots (1.6).
• Pepperdine ranks second nationally in free throw percentage at 80.1%. Ross leads the WCC at 86.6% and has made 142 free throws, fourth-most nationally.
• The Waves have been without multiple scholarship players due to injury or illness 22 times this season, and have been without at least three in 17 consecutive games. Only three players have appeared in every game this season.
• Pepperdine hosts #2 Gonzaga on Saturday evening in a game that will be televised nationally on ESPN. The game is already sold out.

WAVECASTS — Thursday's game can be listened to 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 1,063rd consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

WATCH — The game will be televised locally on Spectrum SportsNet and elsewhere on NBC Sports California, ROOT Sports Northwest and AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain. Fans not in these TV markets can watch online via Stadium's Facebook page. Roxy Bernstein and Mike Montgomery are the announcers.

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.