PEPPERDINE VS. SAINT MARY'S
Date: Saturday, February 13, 2021
Site: Firestone Fieldhouse (Malibu, California)
Time: 5 p.m.
TV: CBS Sports Network
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Saint Mary's leads 73-72
Last Meeting: Gaels 89, Waves 82 (2OT) (3/7/2020 in Las Vegas)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2020-21 Record: 9-8
    WCC Record: 5-3
    Home Record: 6-4
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

SAINT MARY'S GAELS
2020-21 Record: 11-5
    WCC Record: 2-3
    Away Record: 2-0
Head Coach: Randy Bennett
Website: www.SMCGaels.com
Twitter: @saintmaryshoops

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team hopes to keep up its recent run of success when Saint Mary's visits on Saturday.
• A win would put the Waves into a tie for second place in the WCC with BYU.
• Both the Waves and Gaels come in with two-game winning streaks, though Saint Mary's hasn't played since January 23.
• Colbey Ross continues to move up the WCC's all-time stat rankings. He's currently ninth in points (2,056) and needs four more to match LMU's Forrest McKenzie for eighth place. He's third all-time in assists (775), 41 away from SMC's Emmett Naar and second place.
• Ross recently became the first player in program history and the 13th in WCC history to reach 2,000 career points. Ross is one of just eight players in the history of Division I men's basketball to accumulate 2,000 points, 750 assists and 400 rebounds.
• Among active Division I players, Ross ranks first in career assists (775) and free throws made (599), fourth in points (2,056) and seventh in scoring average (17.9).
• Ross ranks #3 in the nation and #1 in the WCC in assists per game (7.5). Ross is fourth in the WCC in scoring (17.2). 
• Ross was named WCC Player of the Week on Monday (the third of his career) after his 24-point, 12-assist effort against Portland last weekend.
• The last time the Waves and Gaels met, Ross scored a career-high 43 points in the quarterfinals of the WCC Tournament.
• Kessler Edwards, who earned his first WCC Player of the Week award on January 25, ranks fourth in the WCC in blocks (1.2), fifth in scoring (17.1) and sixth in rebounding (7.1). He is up to seventh all-time in blocked shots at Pepperdine (113).
• Sedrick Altman is coming off a career-high 15 points in Wednesday's win at USF and he's scored in double-figures in four straight.
• Pepperdine is #8 in the country in free throw percentage (79.3%) and #9 in three-point defense (27.8%).

WAVECASTS — The Saint Mary'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 36th season, will be behind the microphone. This will be his 1,087th consecutive men's basketball broadcast for the Waves.

WATCH — The game will be televised nationally on the CBS Sports Network. Jason Horowitz and Chris Walker have the call.

HOME ATTENDANCE — Per the current COVID-19 guidelines set by the state of California and Los Angeles County, fans will not be permitted to attend home games in Firestone Fieldhouse.

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.