Waves Drop Home Contest to Saint Mary's

Thursday, January 13

Malibu, Calif.

8:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

6-12,0-3WCC

Saint Mary's

13-4,1-1WCC

Team	1	2	F
Saint Mary's (CA)	39	38	77
Pepperdine	30	32	62

Jan Zidek

Photo by: Martin A. Folb

1/13/2022 10:57:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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By: by Athletic Communications

MALIBU, California – The Pepperdine men's basketball team dropped its home game to Saint Mary's, 77-62, on Thursday night.

The Waves fell to 6-12 overall and 0-3 in the West Coast Conference, while the Gaels improved to 13-4, 1-1.

BIG WAVES

Junior forward Jan Zidek (Prague, Czech Republic) scored a team-high 17 points, his ninth straight game in double-figures. He also had a team-high seven rebounds.
Freshman forward Maxwell Lewis (Las Vegas, Nev./AZ Compass Prep) scored 15 points off the bench, making six of eight shots and three of four three-pointers. He also had two steals.
Senior guard Jade' Smith (Oakland, Calif./St. Joseph Notre Dame HS) contributed 10 points, five rebounds and four assists.

PLAY BY PLAY

The Waves never led as the Gaels opened the game with back-to-back three-pointers. It was a one-point game at 11-10 after a Lewis fast-break lay-up with 14:30 left. But Saint Mary's then hit three three-pointers in an 11-0 run, pushing the lead to 22-10. The closest the Waves got the rest of the half was seven points, at 29-22 with five minutes left, after a pair of Zidek free throws. But, SMC then went on a 7-0 run to take its biggest lead of the half at 14 points at 36-22, and led 39-30 at the break.

Back-to-back three-pointers by Lewis helped the Waves close the gap to five points at 57-52 with a little less than 10 minutes to play. But the Gaels then went on a 9-1 run to extend the lead back up to 13 with five minutes left, and the Waves got no closer than nine the rest of the way.

KEY STATS

Saint Mary's outshot the Waves, 52.9% to 40.7%.
The Gaels went 12-for-24 from beyond the arc, while the Waves were 8-for-18.
Pepperdine had 11 offensive rebounds to SMC's four, but the Gaels had an 8-5 edge in second-chance points.
Saint Mary's got a game-high 20 points from Logan Johnson. Matthias Tass had 10 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists.

NOTABLE

The Waves changed up the starting lineup for the first time in 15 games when Keith Fisher III became a late scratch.
This was the third game in a stretch where the Waves are scheduled to play seven games in 13 days.

UP NEXT

Pepperdine's homestand continues on Saturday (Jan. 15) against Portland at 5 p.m. Ticket information and COVID-19 entry policies for Firestone Fieldhouse can be found here. The game will be streamed online via WaveCasts on the WCC Network.