MALIBU, Calif. — Pepperdine men's basketball (6-16, 1-8 WCC) returns home to host San Diego (9-13, 3-6 WCC) Wednesday night at 6 p.m. from Firestone Fieldhouse.

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

The first 100 fans in attendance will receive a free hat. The contest is also the Waves' Coaches vs. Cancer game.

Additional programming includes the chance to win $25,000 with full court putt. Tickets for the game are available for purchase here.

LAST TIME OUT

• Pepperdine fell by a score of 95-79 at Washington State Saturday.
• Styles Phipps matched a career-high 25 points to go with five assists and two steals.
• Danilo Dozic posted 19 points on 7-for-10 shooting, knocking down three of four looks from three-point range.
• The Waves' .536 field goal percentage marked its highest in WCC play and third-highest in a game this season.
• The Waves went 13-for-15 from the free throw line as a team.

GAME NOTES

• Pepperdine currently ranks 37th in the country in free throw percentage at .767.
• This mark ranks third in the WCC, as the Waves have converted 317 of 413 attempts from the charity stripe this season.
• The Waves have shot over 70-percent from the line in 14 of the past 18 games.
• The Waves are one of two teams in the West Coast Conference to have four players averaging 11 points per game or more (Aaron Clark, Javon Cooley, Styles Phipps, Danilo Dozic).
• Seven players have finished as the leading scorer in a game for Pepperdine this season, the most in the WCC, with only six teams in the country having more.
• Styles Phipps is coming off a career-high 25-point effort which featured a career-best 11 field goals made on 17 attempts.
• Phipps ranks ninth in the conference with six rebounds per game, as the Pepperdine point guard has also corralled 40 offensive rebounds through 22 games this campaign (1.8 per game).
• Phipps is one of three players in the country averaging over 12.5 points, six rebounds and 4.5 assists per game (Joshua Jefferson, Iowa State & Quion Williams, Arkansas-Pine Bluff).
• Phipps is currently fourth in the WCC in assists per game at 4.7. 
• Phipps is the only player in the WCC to have both a points/rebounds double-double and a points/assists double-double this season.
• Phipps has shot 41-for-46 (.891) from the free-throw line across the past six games, and has led the Waves in conference play at 14.0 points per game.
• Javon Cooley comes in as the Waves third-leading scorer at 11.7 points per game while being second on the squad with 4.7 rebounds per game.
• Cooley and Phipps each rank within the top-25 of the conference in both scoring and rebounding.
• Cooley ranks fifth in the conference and 48th in the country with an .881 clip from the line.
• Aaron Clark currently ranks eighth in the WCC with 1.5 steals per game on the season.
• Clark is one of four players in the WCC to be averaging at least 12 points per game, three rebounds per game and 1.5 steals per game.
• Clark posted 17 points on 6-for-11 shooting at Washington State.
• Danilo Dozic knocked in three of four looks from three last time out for a 19-point effort.
• Dozic has scored in double figures 11 times this season and leads the team in three-pointers made with 33 (33-for-99).
• David Mager has averaged 6.5 points per game across his past four efforts, having matched a career-high with 13 points against San Francisco.

SERIES HISTORY

• Pepperdine holds a 71-51 lead in the all-time series with San Diego.
• This includes a 37-18 record at home in the series.
• The Waves are 3-7 in the most recent ten meetings.
• Last season's trip to Malibu for the Toreros saw Pepperdine earn an 88-81 victory.
• San Diego took the matchup earlier this season, by a score of 83-63.

SCOUTING THE TOREROS

• San Diego enters play with a 3-6 WCC mark and 9-13 record overall.
• The Toreros have gone 1-7 in road contests this season, with the win being over UC San Diego.
• San Diego is led by point guard Ty-Laur Johnson, who ranks seventh in the WCC with 16 points per game and first in steals with 2.5 per contest.
• The Toreros rank in the top-five in the conference in three-pointers made (199) and steals (186) this season. 

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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