PEPPERDINE AT SAINT MARY'S
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2022
Site: UCU Pavilion (Moraga, California)
Time: 5 p.m.
TV: CBS Sports Network
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Saint Mary's leads 75-73
Last Meeting: Gaels 77, Waves 62 (1/13/2022 in Malibu)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2021-22 Record: 6-16
    WCC Record: 0-7
    Away Record: 0-8
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

SAINT MARY'S GAELS
2021-22 Record: 16-4
    WCC Record: 4-1
    Home Record: 10-0
Head Coach: Randy Bennett
Website: www.SMCGaels.com
Twitter: @saintmaryshoops

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team continues the road trip with a flight up to Northern California for Saturday's contest at Saint Mary's.
• This is the annual NABC Suits & Sneakers week for the fight against cancer.
• Last week, the WCC announced that Pepperdine's road game at Pacific and the home game against Gonzaga would flip. The Waves will now visit the Tigers on February 3 and host the Bulldogs on February 16.
• Pepperdine's impressive freshman class has accounted for 42.7% of the points this season. The quartet features Mike Mitchell Jr., who ranks second in the WCC in assists (4.9), Houston Mallette, who is second on the team in scoring (11.1 ppg, 19th in the WCC) and ranks fifth in the conference in three-pointers (2.2), Maxwell Lewis, who had a 27-point effort against Westmont and is coming off a team-high 18 points at San Diego, and Carson Basham, who is solidifying a spot in the rotation.Mitchell and Lewis are shooting 48.1% and 44.8%, respectively, on three-pointers in conference play.
• Jan Zidek, who ranks 13th in the WCC at 13.2 points per game, was unavailable for Thursday's contest at USD. He had a career-high 28 points against LMU last week.
• The Waves rank highly in the WCC in assists (15.3 per game, second), offensive rebounding (11.1 per game, second) and free throw percentage (74.1%, third).
• Victor Ohia Obioha ranks third in Pepperdine history in field goal percentage (58.4%), while Jadé Smith is tied for eighth in steals (140).
• Lorenzo Romar is in his 25th season as a college head coach. It's his fourth season this time around at Pepperdine, and his seventh overall with the Waves.
• Last season, the Waves won the 2021 College Basketball Invitational (CBI).

WAVECASTS — Saturday'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 37th season, will be behind the microphone. This will be his 1,118th consecutive men's basketball broadcast for the Waves.

WATCH — The game will be televised nationally on the CBS Sports Network. Chick Hernandez and Pete Gillen are the announcers.

PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — 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 10 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 26 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.