PEPPERDINE VS. SANTA CLARA
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2020
Site: Firestone Fieldhouse (Malibu, California)
Time: 7 p.m.
TV: none
Video: WCC Network
Series: Santa Clara leads 79-61
Last Meeting: Waves 90, Broncos 86 (OT) (1/23/2020 in Santa Clara)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2019-20 Record: 12-11
    WCC Record: 5-4
    Home Record: 7-3
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

SANTA CLARA BRONCOS
2019-20 Record: 18-6
    WCC Record: 5-4
    Away Record: 3-4
Head Coach: Herb Sendek
Website: www.SantaClaraBroncos.com
Twitter: @santaclarahoops

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team has won five of its last seven and will try to keep this positive stretch going when Santa Clara visits on Thursday night.
• The Waves handed the Broncos their first home loss of the season two weeks ago and are now going for their first regular-season sweep of SCU since 2012.
• Colbey Ross was recently named to 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 (169) and sixth in assists per game. Ross has more career assists than any junior in the country with 587 (second place is 38 assists behind). He's about 40 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 moved up to eighth place last weekend and he's 237 points away from the record.
• Kameron Edwards, who was recently named one of 30 candidates for the Senior CLASS Award, tied his career high with 27 points in Saturday's overtime win at LMU.
• The trio of Ross (second in the WCC at 19.2 ppg), Kameron Edwards (third at 17.5) and Kessler Edwards (12th at 14.0) has scored 64.0% of the Waves' points this season. Throw in Skylar Chavez (21st at 11.2), and that quartet has scored 78.0% of the Waves' points.
• The last time the Waves had two players average at least 16 points per game was 2004-05.
• Both Edwards — Kessler (third, 7.6) and Kameron (fifth, 7.0) — are in the top five in the WCC in rebounding. Kessler leads the WCC in blocked shots overall (1.5).
• Pepperdine ranks third nationally in free throw percentage at 80.2%. Ross leads the WCC at 86.4% and has made 127 free throws, fourth-most nationally.
• The Waves have been without multiple scholarship players due to injury or illness 20 times this season, and have been without at least three in 15 consecutive games. Only three players have appeared in every game this season.
• Pepperdine visits Pacific on Saturday night (Feb. 8).

WAVECASTS — Thursday's game can be seen online via WaveCasts on the WCC Network. 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 1,061st consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

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.