PEPPERDINE VS. BYU
Date: Saturday, January 23, 2021
Site: Marriott Center (Provo, Utah)
Time: 8 p.m. MT / 7 p.m. PT
TV: ESPN2
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: BYU leads 16-9
Last Meeting: Cougars 81, Waves 64 (2/29/2020 in Malibu)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2020-21 Record: 6-6
    WCC Record: 2-1
    Away Record: 0-2
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

BYU COUGARS
2020-21 Record: 12-3
    WCC Record: 3-1
    Home Record: 6-1
Head Coach: Mark Pope
Website: www.BYUCougars.com
Twitter: @BYUbasketball

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team plays a rare back-to-back home-and-home, as the Waves visit BYU on Saturday followed by the rescheduled home game against the Cougars on Wednesday.
• BYU has won five straight in the series since Pepperdine's last victory at home in February 2017. The Waves' last win in Provo came in January 2015.
• The Waves are coming off home victories against Portland and Pacific, their first back-to-back wins of the season.
• Colbey Ross was on the preseason Wooden Award and Naismith Trophy watch lists for National Player of the Year, as well as the Bob Cousy Award watch list for the nation's top point guard.
• Ross is Pepperdine's all-time leader in both points and assists, among many other school records. Among active Division I players, Ross ranks first in career assists (740) and free throws made (572), fourth in points (1,954) and sixth in scoring average (17.8). He's #5 on the WCC's all-time assist list and will next pass San Diego's Christopher Anderson (757).
• Ross ranks #1 in the nation in assists per game (7.8). He has posted two consecutive games with 10+ assists (only Donny Moore in February 1988 has done it three times in a row for the Waves).
• Kessler Edwards, coming off a career-high 37 points vs. Pacific, is up to seventh all-time in blocked shots at Pepperdine. He ranks second in the WCC in scoring (18.9) and third in blocks (1.5).
• One scoring milestone just took place and another is upcoming. On Thursday, Edwards became the 44th Wave to score 1,000 career points. Ross (1,954 points) will soon become the first player in program history to get to 2,000.
• Pepperdine is #5 in the country in free throw percentage (80.3%) and #18 in three-point defense (28.1%).
• Lorenzo Romar is in his third season this time around at Pepperdine, his sixth season in all with the Waves over two stints, and his 24th season as a head coach.

WAVECASTS — The BYU 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 who is now in his 36th season, will be behind the microphone. This will be his 1,082nd consecutive men's basketball broadcast for the Waves.

WATCH — The game will be televised by ESPN2. Dave Flemming and Sean Farnham have the call.

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). 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 #49 overall on U.S. News and World Report's list of America's best colleges.