PEPPERDINE AT PACIFIC
Date: Thursday, February 3, 2022
Site: Spanos Center (Stockton, California)
Time: 7 p.m.
Video: WCC Network
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Pacific leads 39-33
Last Meeting: Waves 85, Tigers 68 (1/21/2021 in Malibu)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2021-22 Record: 6-17
    WCC Record: 0-8
    Away Record: 0-9
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

PACIFIC TIGERS
2021-22 Record: 6-14
    WCC Record: 1-5
    Home Record: 5-5
Head Coach: Leonard Perry
Website: www.PacificTigers.com
Twitter: @PacificMensBB

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team finally gets to play Pacific after a number of postponements and changes, and now faces the Tigers twice this week.
• Thursday's game in Stockton had also been scheduled on January 1, January 17 and February 17 before landing on February 3.
• Pepperdine was originally supposed to be hosting Gonzaga on Thursday, but the WCC flipped games and the Waves will now meet the Bulldogs in Malibu on February 16.
• Due to COVID-19 schedule changes, this is the second year in a row where the Waves have played a WCC opponent in back-to-back regular-season games (it was BYU last year). Before that, it hadn't happened since 2002. 
• Pepperdine's impressive freshman class has accounted for 44.2% of the points this season. The quartet features Mike Mitchell Jr., who ranks second in the WCC in assists (4.8), Houston Mallette, who is second on the team in scoring (11.0 ppg, 20th 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 averaged a team-best 17.0 points last week, and Carson Basham, who has scored in double-figures in two of the last three games.
• Jan Zidek, who ranks 13th in the WCC at 13.2 points per game, sat out the last two games due to injury. He is day-to-day.
• The Waves rank highly in the WCC in offensive rebounding (11.1 per game, second) assists (15.0 per game, third), and free throw percentage (73.4%, fourth).
• 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 — Thursday'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 1,119th consecutive men's basketball broadcast for the Waves.

WATCH — Pacific will produce a webstream for the WCC Network.

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.