PEPPERDINE AT SANTA CLARA
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2021
Site: Leavey Center (Santa Clara, California)
Time: 3 p.m.
Video: Stadium
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Santa Clara leads 79-63
Last Meeting: Waves 84, Broncos 73 (3/6/2020 in Las Vegas)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2020-21 Record: 10-8
    WCC Record: 6-3
    Away Record: 2-3
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

SANTA CLARA BRONCOS
2020-21 Record: 9-6
    WCC Record: 3-4
    Home Record: 5-4
Head Coach: Herb Sendek
Website: www.SantaClaraBroncos.com
Twitter: @SantaClaraHoops

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team begins a busy end to the regular season on Saturday with its trip to Santa Clara.
• The Waves will wrap up the schedule with four games in eight days, three of them on the road. Pepperdine will stay in the Bay Area for a make-up game against Saint Mary's on Monday.
• Pepperdine is in third place in the WCC standings under the new KenPom weighted system.
• The Waves are currently on a season-high three-game winning streak. They've won their last two road games, and the last time they won three straight WCC road contests was 2015.
• Colbey Ross continues to move up the WCC's all-time stat rankings. He's currently eighth in points (2,066), 50 away from USF's Bill Cartwright and seventh place. He's third all-time in assists (785), 31 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 (785) and free throws made (604), fourth in points (2,066) and eighth in scoring average (17.8).
• Ross ranks #2 in the nation and #1 in the WCC in assists per game (7.7). Ross is seventh in the WCC in scoring (16.8) and steals (1.3) and first in minutes (36.7). 
• Kessler Edwards ranks fifth in the WCC in rebounding (6.9) and blocks (1.1) and is sixth in scoring (17.0). He is up to seventh all-time in blocked shots at Pepperdine (113).
• Jan Zidek is coming off his first career double-double with 11 points and a career-high 11 rebounds in last Saturday's win against Saint Mary's.
• Pepperdine is #4 in the country in three-point defense (27.2%) and #15 in the country in free throw percentage (78.3%).

WAVECASTS — The Santa Clara 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 shown online via Stadium (watchstadium.com). Kate Scott and Dan Belluomini 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.