Men's Basketball Makes Trip to Face Nevada

PEPPERDINE AT NEVADA
Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Site: Lawlor Events Center (Reno, Nevada)
Time: 7 p.m.
Video: Mountain West Network
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Pepperdine leads 24-13
Last Meeting: Waves 76, Wolf Pack 75 (11/16/2010 at UCLA)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2021-22 Record: 2-6
   WCC Record: 0-0
   Away Record: 0-2
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

NEVADA WOLF PACK
2021-22 Record: 3-4
   MWC Record: 0-0
   Home Record: 1-1
Head Coach: Steve Alford
Website: www.NevadaWolfPack.com
Twitter: @NevadaHoops

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team heads back on the road for two games this week, beginning with Tuesday's contest at Nevada.
• The Waves and Wolf Pack haven't played in just over a decade, but Pepperdine has won the last four meetings in the series. This is Pepperdine's first trip to Reno since December 1988.
• Nevada is 0-3 against the West Coast Conference this season (with games against Pepperdine and LMU left to play).
• Led by Houston Mallette's team-best 12.6 points per game average, newcomers have scored 53.1% of the points so far this season. Mallette has a team-best 18 three-pointers.
• Another newcomer, Keith Fisher III, is coming off a team-high and season-high-tying 13 points in Saturday's home game against Grand Canyon.
• Jade' Smith needs eight more steals to break into Pepperdine's all-time top 10. He played in his 100th career game this past Saturday.
• Victor Ohia Obioha ranks second in Pepperdine history in field goal percentage (63.6%).
• The Waves were one of the best free throw shooting teams in the country last season and they've been good so far again this year at 75.0% (ranking third in the WCC).
• 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 — Nevada will stream the game through the Mountain West Network.

WAVECASTS — Tuesday'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 1,104th 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

Keith Fisher III

Houston Mallette

Victor Ohia Obioha

Jade' Smith

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