PEPPERDINE AT SAINT MARY'S
Date: Monday, February 22, 2021
Site: UCU Pavilion (Moraga, California)
Time: 3 p.m.
TV: FOX Sports Prime Ticket
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: series tied 73-73
Last Meeting: Waves 60, Gaels 58 (2/13/2021 in Malibu)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2020-21 Record: 10-9
    WCC Record: 6-4
    Away Record: 2-4
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

SAINT MARY'S GAELS
2020-21 Record: 11-7
    WCC Record: 2-5
    Home Record: 7-3
Head Coach: Randy Bennett
Website: www.SMCGaels.com
Twitter: @saintmaryshoops

WAVEPOINTS
• After a tough loss at Santa Clara, the Pepperdine men's basketball team will try to salvage the second half of this Northern California trip when the Waves play a make-up game at Saint Mary's on Monday.
• The Waves are in the midst of wrapping up the regular season with four games in eight days, three of them on the road.
• In the new KenPom weighted system for determining the WCC standings and tournament seedings, Pepperdine is currently in third place.
• The last time Pepperdine won both regular-season games against Saint Mary's was 2016 (although SMC won the third meeting in the WCC Tournament that year).
• Colbey Ross continues to move up the WCC's all-time stat rankings. He's currently eighth in points (2,092), 24 away from USF's Bill Cartwright and seventh place. He's third all-time in assists (791), 25 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. After nine more assists, that list will shrink to four players with 2,000/800/400.
• Among active Division I players, Ross ranks first in career assists (791) and free throws made (610), fourth in points (2,092) and eighth in scoring average (17.9).
• Ross ranks #3 in the nation and #1 in the WCC in assists per game (7.6). Ross is sixth in the WCC in scoring (17.3), eighth in steals (1.3) and first in minutes (36.8). 
• Kessler Edwards ranks fifth in the WCC in rebounding (6.8) and blocks (1.0) and is seventh in scoring (16.7). He is up to seventh all-time in blocked shots at Pepperdine (113).
• Jan Zidek is having the best stretch of his career, with his first-ever double-double against Saint Mary's last weekend and a career-high 18 at Santa Clara on Saturday. He's averaging 14.3 points in the last three games and 10.0 rebounds in the last two.
• Pepperdine is #5 in the country in three-point defense (27.5%) and #21 in the country in free throw percentage (77.6%).

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 1,088th consecutive men's basketball broadcast for the Waves.

WATCH — The game will be televised locally by FOX Sports Prime Ticket and elsewhere on FOX Sports San Diego, NBC Sports California, ROOT Sports Northwest, FOX Sports North, FOX Sports Wisconsin and FOX Sports Southeast. In markets where it won't be televised, the game will be available online through the WCC Network. Roxy Bernstein and Mike Montgomery 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.