Men's Hoops Closes Out SoCal Challenge vs. TCU

PEPPERDINE VS. TCU
Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Site: JSerra Pavilion (San Juan Capistrano, California)
Time: 7:30 p.m.
TV: CBS Sports Network
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Pepperdine leads 1-0
Last Meeting: Waves 57, Horned Frogs 45 (12/27/1945 in Oklahoma City)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2021-22 Record: 2-4
   WCC Record: 0-0
   Away/Neutral Record: 0-3
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

TCU HORNED FROGS
2021-22 Record: 3-1
   Big 12 Record: 0-0
   Away/Neutral Record: 0-1
Head Coach: Jamie Dixon
Website: www.GoFrogs.com
Twitter: @TCUBasketball

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team wraps up the inaugural Southern California Challenge with a nationally televised game against TCU.
• The Waves and Horned Frogs are meeting for the first time in 76 years.
• It's the final game of the Waves' extended Orange County stay, which began with Saturday's contest at UC Irvine and continued with Monday's game against Fresno State.
• The multi-team event actually began last week when the Waves hosted Utah Valley as the first of three games in the SoCal Challenge.
• Led by Houston Mallette's team-best 12.5 points per game average, five newcomers have scored 50.9% of the points so far this season.
• Jan Zidek (20 points) and Mike Mitchell Jr. (15 points) are coming off season highs against Fresno State.
• Jade' Smith is averaging 10.5 points per game. His best season scoring average prior to this year has been 9.6 in 2018-19. He needs 10 more steals to break into Pepperdine's all-time top 10.
• Victor Ohia Obioha ranks second in Pepperdine history in field goal percentage (63.6%).
• The Waves shot a season-best 54.5% on Monday against Fresno State.
• Lorenzo Romar is in his 25th season as a college head coach. It's his fourth season this time around at Pepperdine, and his seventh overall with the Waves.
• The Waves are coming off a season in which they won the 2021 College Basketball Invitational (CBI).

WATCH — The game will be shown nationally on the CBS Sports Network. Alex Del Barrio and Tim Doyle have the call.

WAVECASTS — Wednesday'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 who is now in his 37th season, will be behind the microphone. This will be his 1,102nd consecutive men's basketball broadcast for the Waves.

PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — 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 10 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 26 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.

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Players Mentioned

Houston Mallette

Mike Mitchell Jr.

Victor Ohia Obioha

Jade' Smith

Jan Zidek

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