PEPPERDINE AT PACIFIC
Date: Saturday, February 8, 2020
Site: Spanos Center (Stockton, California)
Time: 7 p.m.
Video: WCC Network
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Pacific leads 38-32
Last Meeting: Tigers 59, Waves 56 (1/2/2020 in Malibu)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2019-20 Record: 13-11
    WCC Record: 6-4
    Away Record: 5-5
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

PACIFIC TIGERS
2019-20 Record: 18-8
    WCC Record: 6-4
    Home Record: 12-3
Head Coach: Damon Stoudamire
Website: www.PacificTigers.com
Twitter: @PacificMensBB

WAVEPOINTS
• A top-four spot in the West Coast Conference standings will be on the line Saturday night in Stockton when the Pepperdine and Pacific men's basketball teams meet.
• The Waves are looking for their first win in the Spanos Center since 2016 and hoping to avoid a regular-season sweep.
• Colbey Ross is on 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 (178) and fourth in assists per game. Ross has more career assists than any junior in the country with 596 (second place is 47 assists behind). He's 32 assists away from entering the WCC's all-time top 10 (on Thursday night he passed the father of teammate Keith Smith for 11th place all-time).
• Ross set Pepperdine's career record for assists on December 14 and is now taking aim at the career scoring record. He should move into seventh place on Saturday and he's 214 points away from the record.
• The trio of Ross (second in the WCC at 19.4 ppg), Kameron Edwards (third at 17.5) and Kessler Edwards (12th at 13.9) has scored 63.7% of the Waves' points this season. Throw in Skylar Chavez (20th at 11.4), and that quartet has scored 77.8% 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 (fourth, 7.5) and Kameron (fifth, 7.1) — are in the top five in the WCC in rebounding. Kessler leads the WCC in blocked shots (1.5).
• Pepperdine ranks first nationally in free throw percentage at 80.6%. Ross leads the WCC at 86.2% and has made 137 free throws, fourth-most nationally.
• The Waves have been without multiple scholarship players due to injury or illness 21 times this season, and have been without at least three in 16 consecutive games. Only three players have appeared in every game this season.
• Pepperdine is home for three of the final five regular-season games, including next Thursday vs. San Diego and Saturday vs. #2 Gonzaga.

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 1,062nd consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

WATCH — Pacific will produce a webstream for the WCC Network.

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.