McClendon & Majstorovic Named to Men’s Basketball All-WCC Preseason Team
10/15/2026 8:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Pepperdine men's basketball graduate student guard Will McClendon and junior forward Petar Majstorovic were named to the All-WCC Preseason Team, announced today by the West Coast Conference.
The Waves earn two of the ten spots of the league's All-Preseason Team as voted on by the conference's head coaches. The Waves were also selected seventh in the WCC Preseason Coaches Poll.
McClendon spent this past season at North Texas, averaging 13 points, four rebounds and 2.5 assists per game while shooting 45% from three-point distance. He appeared in four games for the Mean Green before suffering a season-ending injury.
In 2024-25, McClendon played for San Jose State in the Mountain West, making 24 appearances which were all starts. He was the second-leading scorer for the Spartans, averaging 12 points, 3.3 boards and 2.8 assists per game. He scored in double figures 17 times throughout the year and led the team with 1.9 threes made per contest.
McClendon began his career at UCLA, spending three seasons with the Bruins from 2021-24. After a medical redshirt in his first season, he made 27 appearances with 9.4 minutes per game in 2022-23. He held a larger role the following year, playing in all 33 games with four starts. He averaged 4.1 points and 3.3 rebounds per game, shooting 35.4% from deep and ranking third on the team with 28 threes made.
One of seven transfers added this offseason with prior NCAA experience, he ranks third on the Waves with 88 career games played.
Majstorovic joined the Waves this offseason following one-year stints at Long Beach State and Syracuse.
He earned All-Big West Honorable Mention following the 2025-26 season at Long Beach, after averaging 14.4 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. Majstorovic was top-15 in the Big West in both scoring and rebounding, and was sixth in the conference with 54 steals. Overall, he had nine 20+ point efforts and scored in double figures 23 times.
As a freshman at Syracuse in 2024-25, Majstorovic appeared in 31 games for the Orange, averaging 2.6 points and 3.2 rebounds per contest on .484 shooting from the field.
2026-27 WCC Men's Basketball Preseason Team
Joshua Dent, Jr., Guard — Saint Mary's
Jake Ensminger, Gr., Guard — Santa Clara
Sash Gavalyugov, Jr., Guard — Santa Clara
Will Heimbrodt, Sr., Forward — Seattle
Carson Johnson, Jr., Guard — Denver
Petar Majstorovic, Jr., Forward — Pepperdine
Will McClendon, Gr., Guard — Pepperdine
Ndewedo Newbury, Gr., Forward — San Francisco
All Wright, Jr., Guard — LMU
Junseok Yeo, 5th, Forward — Seattle
2026-27 WCC Men's Basketball Preseason Coaches Poll (points)
1. Santa Clara (81) - 9 first place votes
2. Saint Mary's (70) - 1 first place vote
3. San Francisco (58)
4. Seattle (54)
5. Pacific (53)
6. LMU (46)
7. Pepperdine (30)
8. San Diego (26)
9. Portland (22)
10. Denver (10)
The Waves begin the season on the road at Cornell on Monday, Nov. 2, before returning home to host a pair of games against La Sierra (Nov. 5) and Bethesda (Nov. 7).
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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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