PEPPERDINE VS. GONZAGA
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2020
Site: Firestone Fieldhouse (Malibu, California)
Time: 7 p.m.
TV: ESPN
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Gonzaga leads 58-31
Last Meeting: Bulldogs 75, Waves 70 (1/4/2020 in Spokane)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2019-20 Record: 14-12
    WCC Record: 7-5
    Home Record: 9-3
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

GONZAGA BULLDOGS
2019-20 Record: 25-1
    WCC Record: 11-0
    Away Record: 9-0
Head Coach: Mark Few
Website: www.GoZags.com
Twitter: @ZagMBB

WAVEPOINTS
• After Thursday's thrilling comeback victory over San Diego with a buzzer-beating game-winner, the Pepperdine men's basketball team hopes to find even more magic on Saturday when #2 Gonzaga visits.
• Saturday's game is sold out. The first 500 Pepperdine students with their ID will be admitted.
• This is just the second time in Firestone Fieldhouse's history that a top-two AP-ranked team has played here (the other was #1 San Francisco in 1977). The Waves are hosting a game on ESPN's main channel for the first time since 2008 (also against Gonzaga).
• Colbey Ross, who is on the Lou Henson Award midseason watch list, hit a game-winning three-pointer at the buzzer to beat San Diego on Thursday night. He scored 17 of his 21 points in the second half as the Waves rallied from a 12-point deficit.
• Ross is averaging a WCC-best 7.3 assists per game. Nationally, he's first in total assists (191) and fourth in assists per game. Ross has more career assists than any junior in the country with 609 (second place is 52 assists back) and he's seventh among all active Division I players. He's 19 assists away from entering the WCC's 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 23 points away from fifth place and he's 165 points away from the record.
• The trio of Ross (second in the WCC at 19.8 ppg), Kameron Edwards (third at 17.2) and Kessler Edwards (13th at 13.5) has scored 63.7% of the Waves' points this season. Throw in Skylar Chavez (10.8), and that quartet has scored 77.2% of the Waves' points.
• Pepperdine ranks first nationally in free throw percentage at 79.9%. Ross leads the WCC at 86.7% and has made 144 free throws, fourth-most nationally.
• Kessler Edwards leads the WCC in blocked shots (1.7).
• Ross has played 969 minutes this season, second-most nationally.
• Next week, the Waves travel for games at Portland and San Francisco.

WAVECASTS — Saturday'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 1,064th consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

WATCH — The game will be televised nationally on ESPN — the first time a game in Firestone Fieldhouse has been shown on ESPN's primary channel since 2008 (also against Gonzaga). Roxy Bernstein and Corey Williams 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.