MALIBU, Calif. — Pepperdine men's basketball (3-2) wraps up a four-game homestand Friday night, playing host to Stephen F. Austin (4-1) at 6 p.m. on ESPN+.

It's Country Music Night at Firestone Fieldhouse, with the first 100 fans in attendance receiving a free western themed t-shirt. Tickets are available for purchase here.

Al Epstein and Joey Vergilis will have the call on ESPN+, with live stats for the contest available here.

The Waves look to end the homestand with a 3-1 mark as a 4-2 overall start would be the best since the 2022-23 campaign.

LAST TIME OUT

• Pepperdine picked up a 90-79 victory over New Orleans at home Tuesday night.
• The Waves shot 25-for-28 from the free throw line while turning the ball over just six times compared to 17 from the Lumberjacks.
• Javon Cooley scored a career-high 23 points to go along with seven rebounds, three assists and two steals.
• Cooley was 12-for-12 from the free throw line in the game.
• Styles Phipps posted his second straight double-double with 14 points and 11 assists.
• Danilo Dozic knocked down four of seven looks from three-point range on his way to a 21-point effort.

GAME NOTES

• The Waves have scored 80-plus points in four of five games to start the season.
• Pepperdine ranks third in the WCC in scoring at 87 points per game.
• Pepperdine is one of two teams in the WCC with four players averaging over 12 points per game (Phipps, Clark, Dozic, Cooley).
• Pepperdine is one of ten teams to have a game with 25 or more made free throws at a clip higher than 89-percent.
• The Waves currently rank 11th in the country in offensive rebounds per game, averaging 17.2 through the first five games this season.
• The Waves have secured at least 11 offensive boards in every game this season.
• Phipps is one of four players in the country averaging at least 12.5 points per game, six rebounds per game and 6.5 assists per game.
• He notched his second straight double-double last time out with 14 points and 11 assists versus New Orleans.
• Phipps is one of four players in the country to have both a points/rebounds double-double and points/assists double-double.
• Javon Cooley has been the Waves' leading scorer this season with 14.8 points per game.
• Cooley scored a career-best 23 points last time out while knocking down all 12 of his attempts from the free throw line.
• Cooley's 12-for-12 mark from the free throw line marked the first time since Colbey Ross (Mar. 6, 2021) that a Wave made at least dozen free throws at 100-percent clip.
• He is one of eight players in the nation this season to record a game with at least 12 made free throws without a single miss.
• He is one of two players in the WCC to be averaging at least 13.5 points per game, 3.5 rebounds per game, three assists per game and two steals per game.
• Clark currently ranks second in the WCC with 10 steals this season.
• Freshman Luka Vudragovic is the lone Wave to have knocked down a three in each game this season. 

SERIES HISTORY

• This marks the second-ever meeting between the two programs.
• Pepperdine won the lone meeting in the series by a score of 77-53 on 12/11/1993.
• The game was played at a neutral site in Waco, Texas, as part of the Dr. Pepper Invitational.

SCOUTING THE LUMBERJACKS

• Stephen F. Austin enters with a 4-1 record, having played three contests already against teams that Pepperdine will face down the road.
• The Lumberjacks suffered their first loss of the season last time out, falling 78-80 at Fresno State.
• SFA had picked up double-digit wins over Millsaps, Arkansas State, Rice and Abilene Christian to begin the season.
• Keon Thompson (20.2 PPG) and Patrick Lateef (18.2 PPG) have led the way so far for the Lumberjacks, combining for over 44-percent of the team's points this season.
• SFA has shot from three at over a 40-percent clip to this point in the season while averaging 11 makes from distance per game.

The Waves will head to Palm Desert next for the Acrisure Series, taking on Fresno State at 4 p.m. Wednesday from Acrisure Arena on CBS Sports Network.

ABOUT PEPPERDINE MEN'S BASKETBALL
Pepperdine men's basketball has made 13 NCAA postseason appearances while earning 12 WCC Regular-Season Championships and three WCC Tournament Championships in its history. This success has spanned multiple decades, with the Waves most recently winning the 2021 CBI Tournament. The program has also seen 19 All-Americans along with 19 NBA players, which included a streak of 34 consecutive seasons with at least one alum on an NBA roster from 1976-2011.

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