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2003-04 Men’s Basketball 1200 Bayhill Drive, Suite 302 San Bruno, CA 94066 www.wccsports.com 650-873-8622 (Tel) 650-873-7846 (Fax) January 5, 2004 Contact: Brad Walker [email protected] 2003-04 STANDINGS WCC GAMES OVERALL W L PCT GB Home Away W L Home Away Neut Strk #16Gonzaga 0 0 -- -- 0-0 0-0 10 2 6-0 1-0 3-2 W3 Loyola Marymount 0 0 -- -- 0-0 0-0 8 4 4-2 3-2 1-0 W2 San Francisco 0 0 -- -- 0-0 0-0 10 6 6-0 2-4 2-2 W2 Saint Mary’s 0 0 -- -- 0-0 0-0 8 6 4-1 2-4 2-1 L1 Santa Clara 0 0 -- -- 0-0 0-0 8 7 5-3 2-3 1-1 L2 Portland 0 0 -- -- 0-0 0-0 6 7 3-2 3-5 0-0 L2 Pepperdine 0 0 -- -- 0-0 0-0 5 9 3-2 1-4 1-3 L3 San Diego 0 0 -- -- 0-0 0-0 3 11 3-1 0-6 0-4 L3 CONFERENCE PLAY GETS UNDERWAY!!! WCC Three WCC games televised on FSN; Pepperdine Face Utes on ESPN’s Big Monday vs. The Rest The 52nd WCC conference season gets underway when Gonzaga brings its #16 ranking to the Los Angeles area to take on Pepperdine. Fox Sports Net West2 will broadcast the GU-Pepperdine meeting on Thursday ACC 1-3 starting at 5:30pm from Firestone Fieldhouse in Malibu. America East 4-0 Atlantic 10 1-4 The San Francisco Dons travel to the Leavey Center to face the Santa Clara Broncos for the 102nd time this Atlantic Sun 1-0 Friday night. Fans can watch the rivalry match-up on Fox Sports Net Bay Area tipping at 7:30pm. Big East 0-1 Big Sky 6-7 In the third WCC Fox Sports Net broadcast of the week, the leagues top two scorers, Portland’s Eugene Jeter Big Ten 1-0 III and Pepperdine’s Glen McGowan, meet on FSN West2 when the Waves host the Pilots. This game also Big 12 2-1 marks the debut of WCC Basketball on HDnet. HDnet is the first all high definition national television network Big South 0-1 and can be found as the high definition option on DirectTV. Big West 10-8 Last Week’s Results Upcoming Schedule Colonial 1-0 C-USA 0-0 Dec. 29 Jan. 5 Horizon 2-0 Fairlield 60, Pepperdine 56 Pepperdine @ Utah - 9pm (ESPN) Independent 0-0 Saint Mary’s 84, Loyola-Chicago 62 Ivy League 1-0 Arizona State 89, San Diego 70 Jan. 6 MEAC 0-1 Utah State 74, San Francisco 48 San Diego @ New Mexico - 6pm Santa Clara 66, UW-Milwaukee 64 San Diego State @ Saint Mary’s - 7pm Metro Atlantic 0-1 Mid-American 2-0 Dec. 30 Jan. 8 Mid-Continent 0-2 Loyola Marymount 71, CS Fullerton 67 Gonzaga @ Pepperdine - 5:30pm (FSN West2) Midwestern 0-0 IUPUI 76, Pepperdine 72 Portland @ Loyola Marymount - 7pm Missouri Valley 1-5 Winthrop 70, San Diego 66 USF 70, UT-San Antonio 69 Jan. 9 Mountain West 1-7 Brigham Young 68, Santa Clara 66 San Francisco at Santa Clara - 7:30pm (FSN Bay Area) NEC 2-0 Ohio Valley 1-0 Jan. 2 Jan. 10 Pac-10 3-7 Loyola Marymount 78, Colgate 54 Portland @ Pepperdine - 5pm (FSN West2, HDnet) Brigham Young 70, Saint Mary’s 55 Gonzaga @ Loyola Marymount - 7pm Patriot 1-0 SEC 1-1 Jan. 3 SWAC 0-0 Colorado St. 91, Pepperdine 65 Southland 1-0 Northern Arizona 81, Portland 73 Southern 0-0 Southwest Missouri St. 73, San Diego 62 Eastern Washington 65, Santa Clara 54 Sun Belt 2-0 San Francisco 60, Sacramento State 47 WAC 4-3 Non Div. I 7-0 Jan. 4 Total 57-52 Gonzaga 88, Montana 67 Gonzaga * Loyola Marymount * Pepperdine * Portland * Saint Mary’s * San Diego * San Francisco * Santa Clara Sports Info Gonzaga Bulldogs (10-2/ 0-0 WCC) - Head Coach: Mark Few Forward Tony Skinner and center Richard Fox will both be sidelined indefinitely Contacts following injuries received in Wednesday's win over Eastern Washington. Fox, who has been playing with an injured meniscus in his right knee, underwent Gonzaga arthroscopic surgery last Friday evening. His status for the remainder of the season depends on what Oliver Pierce 509-323-6373 the surgery uncovered. Skinner suffered a broken third metacarpal in his right hand and it will be three weeks before his status is known for the remainder of the season...The Bulldogs begin their [email protected] WCC title defense with a Los Angeles swing this weekend versus Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount. Rich Moser 509-323-5484 Loyola Marymount Lions (8-4/ 0-0 WCC) - Head Coach: Steve Aggers [email protected] The eight non-conference wins against NCAA Division I opponents is the most Sara Rathbun 509-323-4227 heading into conference play since the 1995-96 season when the Lions entered [email protected] conference play 9-3. The Lions had seven non-conference wins in the 2001-02 season, starting the season 7-7, which was the best start under Aggers...LMU faces the Zags at Loyola Marymount Gersten Pavilion this Saturday. The last time these two teams faced off in Los Angeles, the Lions pulled off a huge upset, defeating Gonzaga 80-74. Sherman Gay had 14 points and nine rebounds in John Shaffer 310-338-7643 the win. [email protected] Pepperdine Waves (5-9 /0-0 WCC) - Head Coach: Paul Westphal Marysol Moe 310-338-5798 Pepperdine concludes a five-game road trip when it travels to Salt Lake City, [email protected] Utah, to face the Utes on ESPN’s Big Monday beginning at 9 p.m...Pepperdine is Alissa Zito 310-338-7638 currently 5-9 on the season and is in the midst of a three-game losing streak following Saturday's 91-65 loss to Colorado State in Denver. The Waves are currently in the midst of [email protected] their second three-game skid of the season...The 14 teams the Waves have played thus far have a combined record of 93-62 (.600). Ten of those teams have winning records. Pepperdine Portland Pilots (6-7/ 0-0 WCC) - Head Coach: Michael Holton Al Barba 310-506-4455 Portland knocked down a season-high 14 three-pointers as the Pilots finished their [email protected] non-conference schedule against Northern Arizona. Karl Aaker led the way for Tamara Metcalfe 310-506-4333 Portland with a career-high 20 points in the game, including 5-of-8 from beyond [email protected] the arc...The Pilots are shooting a league-high 40.6 percent from three-point land. Portland returned nine players from last year’s squad but are shooting .077 better from three-point land compared to last season...The three-guard line-up including Eugene Jeter III, Adam Quick and Donald Wilson has led Portland to a balanced distribution of the ball. Quick (50), Jeter (41), and Wilson (31) each have 30 or more Julie Lapomarda 503-943-7731 assists. Quick needs just 50 more assists on the season to crack the top on the WCC career list. [email protected] Saint Mary’s Gaels (8-6/ 0-0 WCC) - Head Coach: Randy Bennett Jason Brough 503-943-7439 Daniel Kickert was named the Most Valuable Player of the Shamrock Office Solu- [email protected] tions Classic after averaging 18.5 points and 10.0 rebounds in wins over Saint Peter's and Loyola-Chicago. Kickert has done a good job of avoiding a sophomore slump, improving Saint Mary’s his scoring (12.7pg to 15.4pg) and rebounding (3.7rg to 6.3rg) from a year ago...Saint Mary's plays its final non-conference game on January 6 against San Diego State. Tip-off is at 7:05 p.m. from McKeon Rich Davi 925-631-4402 Pavilion in Moraga. SMC is 4-1 at home this season...The Gaels have scored an average of 88 points [email protected] in five home games this season, while allowing just 60.4. Ryan Reggiani 925-631-4950 San Diego Toreros (3-11/ 0-0 WCC) - Head Coach: Brad Holland [email protected] Though the Toreros continue to struggle, their three-point shooters have started to heat up. In a loss to SW Missouri State, San Diego's Brett Melton was 7-of-11 San Diego from 3-point range and led all scorers with 23 points. Brad Lechtenberg, who was 5-of-8 from behind the arc, scored 15. Over the last three games combined, Melton and Ted Gosen 619-260-4745 Lechtenberg have gone 24-of-39 (.615) from behind the arc...Junior guard Mike McGrain may not [email protected] be looking to score, but he’s doing about everything else for the Toreros. McGrain ranks second in Nick Mirkovich 619-260-4745 the WCC in assists per game at 6.14 and is third on the team in rebounds per game at 4.9 per [email protected] contest. McGrain leads the team in steals (18), minutes (29.9 per game) and sits a top the WCC in assist to turnover ratio at 2.46. San Francisco Dons (10-6/ 0-0 WCC) - Head Coach: Phil Mathews San Francisco Alvin Broussard had 13 points and a career-high 20 rebounds in San Francisco's Peter Simon 415-422-6161 victory over Sacramento State, while fellow forward James Bayless had 22 points [email protected] and 10 rebounds for the Dons...The Dons play their first three WCC games at Ryan McCrary 415-422-6162 Santa Clara, Gonzaga and Portland before its league home opener with San Di- [email protected] ego on January 22nd and Santa Clara on the 24th.