PEPPERDINE AT PORTLAND
Date: Saturday, February 6, 2021
Site: Chiles Center (Portland, Oregon)
Time: 4 p.m.
Video: WCC Network
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Pepperdine leads 67-44
Last Meeting: Waves 72, Toreros 69 (2/13/2020 in Malibu)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2020-21 Record: 7-8
    WCC Record: 3-3
    Away Record: 0-3
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

PORTLAND PILOTS
2020-21 Record: 6-11
    WCC Record: 0-8
    Home Record: 5-6
Head Coach: Terry Porter
Website: www.PortlandPilots.com
Twitter: @PilotHoops

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball had home games with San Diego and San Francisco postponed this week, so to fill the void the West Coast Conference moved the Portland road game from February 18 to Saturday.
• The Waves have won six straight and seven of the last eight against the Pilots.
• In the Waves' last game against Gonzaga, Colbey Ross 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.
• Five points gets Ross into the top 10 in WCC history. He's tied for #4 on the WCC's all-time assist list with San Diego's Christopher Anderson (757). Matthew Dellavedova of Saint Mary's is third with 768.
• Ross is Pepperdine's all-time leader in both points and assists, among many other school records. Among active Division I players, Ross ranks first in career assists (757) and free throws made (593), fourth in points (2,010) and seventh in scoring average (17.8).
• Ross ranks #5 in the nation and #1 in the WCC in assists per game (7.3). Ross is sixth in the WCC in scoring (16.5). 
• Ross was on the preseason Wooden Award and Naismith Trophy watch lists for National Player of the Year, as well as the Bob Cousy Award watch list for the nation's top point guard.
• Kessler Edwards, who earned his first WCC Player of the Week award on January 25, ranks fourth in the WCC in scoring (17.8) and blocks (1.2) and sixth in rebounding (6.6). He is up to seventh all-time in blocked shots at Pepperdine (112).
• Pepperdine is #4 in the country in free throw percentage (80.3%) and #12 in three-point defense (28.2%).
• Next week, the Waves visit USF on Wednesday for a previously postponed contest. Thursday's Loyola Marymount game is off.

WAVECASTS — The Portland 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 1,085th consecutive men's basketball broadcast for the Waves.

WATCH — Portland will produce a broadcast for the WCC Network.

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.