PEPPERDINE AT SAN FRANCISCO
Date: Saturday, February 22, 2020
Site: War Memorial at the Sobrato Center (San Francisco, California)
Time: 3 p.m.
TV: NBC Sports Bay Area
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: San Francisco leads 82-53
Last Meeting: Waves 89, Dons 72 (3/9/2019 in Las Vegas)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2019-20 Record: 15-13
    WCC Record: 8-6
    Away Record: 6-6
Head Coach    Lorenzo Romar
Website    www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter    @PeppBasketball

SAN FRANCISCO DONS
2019-20 Record: 17-11
    WCC Record: 6-7
    Home Record: 11-5
Head Coach: Todd Golden
Website: www.USFDons.com
Twitter: @USFDonsMBB

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team can clinch a top-half finish in the West Coast Conference with a victory on Saturday, but it'll have to come at what's been a tough place to play in San Francisco. 
• This is the only regular-season matchup between the two schools. The Waves have only won once in their last 10 trips to USF.
• But, after winning on Thursday at Portland, the Waves have six road wins for the first time since 2015-16 and have evened their road record at 6-6.
• The Waves rallied from a 13-point second-half deficit to win at Portland, their sixth time this season getting the victory after being down by double-figures.
• Colbey Ross scored 27 of his 30 points in the second half against Portland. He also had a career-high 14 rebounds. It was his fourth career 30-point game.
• Ross, who made the Lou Henson Award midseason watch list, is on a pace to break his own school record with 7.2 assists per game. Nationally, he's first in total assists (202) and fourth in assists per game. Ross has more career assists than any junior in the country with 620 (second place is 50 assists back) and he's seventh among all active Division I players. He's eight assists away from entering the WCC's all-time top 10. He owns two of the four 200-assist seasons in Pepperdine history.
• Overall, Ross leads the WCC in assists (7.2) and is second in scoring (20.3). In conference games only, he's first in both scoring (20.6) and assists (7.0). He has scored at least 21 points in five straight games. He's scored 20+ points in the second half four times this season.
• Ross set Pepperdine's career record for assists on December 14 and is now taking aim at the career scoring record. He's in fourth place (1,674), three points shy of third place, 27 points behind second place and 112 points away from the record. 
• Pepperdine ranks first nationally in free throw percentage at 79.6%. Ross leads the WCC at 85.9% and has made 158 free throws, third-most nationally.
• The Waves are off next Thursday and then have the regular-season finale and Senior Day in Firestone Fieldhouse on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 29) against BYU.

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 1,066th consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

WATCH — Saturday's game will be televised by NBC Sports Bay Area, ROOT Sports Northwest and AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain. Fans not in one of those TV markets, including Southern California, can watch on Stadium's Facebook page. Roxy Bernstein and Mike Montgomery 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.