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Carson Basham at Saint Mary's
Morgan Davenport
57
Pepperdine PEP 6-17,0-8 WCC
81
Winner Saint Mary's (CA) SMC 17-4,5-1 WCC
Pepperdine PEP
6-17,0-8 WCC
57
Final
81
Saint Mary's (CA) SMC
17-4,5-1 WCC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Pepperdine PEP 21 36 57
Saint Mary's (CA) SMC 41 40 81

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | by Athletic Communications

Gaels Defeat Short-Handed Waves

MORAGA, California – A short-handed Pepperdine men's basketball team lost at Saint Mary's, 81-57, on Saturday evening in West Coast Conference play.
 
With only eight available scholarship players, the Waves' four freshmen scored 82.5% of the points (47 of 57) tonight.
 
Saint Mary's improved to 17-4, 5-1, while Pepperdine fell to 6-17, 0-8.
 
BIG WAVES
  • Freshman forward Maxwell Lewis (Las Vegas, Nev./AZ Compass Prep) had a team-high 16 points along with six rebounds and two steals.
  • Freshman center Carson Basham (Phoenix, Ariz./AZ Compass Prep), making his first career start, scored a season-high 15 points on 7-for-9 shooting.
  • Freshman guard Mike Mitchell Jr. (San Jose, Calif./Archbishop Mitty HS) had nine points and a team-high seven rebounds, plus two steals.
PLAY BY PLAY
 
Pepperdine's only lead came at 2-0 after an opening basket by Mitchell. But, the Gaels scored the next five points and didn't trail again. SMC took its first double-digit lead at 21-11 just after the midway point of the first half. The Gaels went up by 20 at 37-17 and were up 41-21 at the break.
 
The Waves nearly doubled their offensive output in the second half and almost played the Gaels to a standstill after the break. Saint Mary's took its biggest lead of the night at 58-27. But at 68-39, Lewis had five points and Basham had four during a 9-0 run to cut the lead to 68-48 with a little more than six minutes to play. The teams mostly traded points for the rest of the game.
 
KEY STATS
  • The Waves were outshot 51.7% to 43.8%.
  • Seventeen Pepperdine turnovers helped SMC to a 27-15 edge in points off turnovers.
  • The Gaels doubled up the Waves in points in the paint, 40-20.
  • Saint Mary's had five players score in double-figures, led by Matthias Tass and Tommy Kuhse with 16 points apiece.
NOTABLE
  • The Waves played their second straight game without their leading scorer, Jan Zidek, who is day-to-day due to an injury. Darryl Polk Jr. was also unavailable.
UP NEXT
 
Pepperdine faces Pacific twice next week, first in Stockton on Thursday (Feb. 3) at 7 p.m. and then in Malibu on Saturday (Feb. 5) at 5 p.m. Both games will be streamed on the WCC Network and on Thursday there will be an audio-only WaveCasts at PepperdineWaves.com.
 
 
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