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PACIFIC MEN’S BASKETBALL NOTES Athletics Media Relations Manager - Chris Fortney • [email protected] • 209-684-3150 SCHEDULE & RESULTS GAME DETAILS 1-0, 0-0 WCC Monday, November 30, 2020 • 6:30 PM PST Home: 1-0 Away: 0-0 Neutral: 0-0 Lawlor Events Center • Reno, Nev. TV: Mountain West Network Date Day Opponent Watch Time/Result November Radio: Fox Sports AM 1280 25 Wed vs. UC Riverside WCCN W, 66-60 Talent: Zack Bayrouty 27 Fri vs. Fresno State WCCN PPD 30 Mon at Nevada MWN 6:30 PM December 2 Wed vs. Montana State -- 2:00 PM 4 Fri vs. Westmont College** -- 2:00 PM 6 Sun at San Jose State -- 7:00 PM PACIFIC TIGERS NEVADA WOLF PACK 12 Sat vs. UC Davis -- 3:00 PM 16 Wed at CSUN -- 4:00 PM 19 Sat at Cal State Fullerton -- 7:00 PM 2020-21 Record ...........................................1-0 2020-21 Record ...........................................2-0 21 Mon vs. Univ. of St. Katherine** -- 2:00 PM WCC Record ..............................................0-0 WCC Record ..............................................0-0 29 Tues vs. William Jessup** -- 7:00 PM Home Record ..............................................1-0 Home Record ..............................................0-0 Away Record ...............................................0-0 Away Record ...............................................1-0 January Neutral Record .......................................... 0-0 Neutral Record ............................................1-0 2 Sat *vs. Portland -- TBA 7 Thu *at BYU -- TBA Head Coach Damon Stoudamire (5th Season) Head Coach.............Steve Alford (2nd Season) 9 Sat *vs. San Diego -- TBA Career Record .........................................63-68 Career Record .....................................608-310 14 Thu *vs. Santa Clara -- TBA WCC Record ..........................................28-41 Mountain West Record ...........................80-32 16 Sat *vs. LMU -- TBA 21 Thu *at Pepperdine -- TBA SERIES NOTES: 23 Sat *at Gonzaga -- TBA • Tonight marks the 102nd meeting all-time between Pacific and Nevada, two former Big West rivals. 28 Thu *at Santa Clara -- TBA Pacific leads the all-time series 53-48, but Nevada has taken the last four meetings. The Tigers are 18-32 all-time in Reno. 30 Sat *vs. Saint Mary’s -- TBA February •The Tigers and Wolf Pack last met on Nov. 9, 2018 in Reno with Nevada prevailing 83-61 with Caleb Martin leading the way with 22 points for Nevada. 4 Thu *vs. San Francisco -- TBA 6 Sat *at San Diego -- TBA •Pacific’s last win in Reno was on Nov. 18, 2013 by a final of 80-78 on an Andrew Bock put-back at the 13 Sat *at LMU -- TBA buzzer. 18 Thu *vs. BYU -- TBA 20 Sat *at Portland -- TBA PROJECTED STARTERS 25 Thu *vs. Gonzaga -- TBA 27 Sat *at Saint Mary’s -- TBA No. Yr. Pos. Name Hometown/Previous School 3 So. Guard Pierre Crockrell II Tacoma, Wash./Prolific Prep March 4 So. Guard Daniss Jenkins Dallas, Texas/Dallas Hillcrest HS 13 Sr. Forward Jeremiah Bailey Fairbanks, Alaska/Pima College 4-6 Thu WCC Championship - First Round 24 Sr. Guard Broc Finstuen Pine Island, Minn./Casper College 7 Sat WCC Championship - Quarterfinals 45 R-Jr. Forward Nigel Shadd Mesa, Ariz./Kansas State 8 Mon WCC Championship - Semifinals 9 Tue WCC Championship **- Non-Division I Opponent TIGER RESERVES * - West Coast Conference Contest No. Yr. Pos. Name Hometown/Previous School 0 R-So. Forward Marial Mading Perth, Australia./Chipola College All times are (PST) 1 Gr. Forward Jordan Bell Inglewood, Calif./Loyola Marymount 2 So. Guard Jalen Brown Portland, Ore./Eastern Arizona CC 10 So. Forward Jonathan Salazar Panama/St. John Bosco HS 12 Sr. Guard Jervay Green Denver, Colo./Nebraska 25 Sr. Guard Justin Moore San Diego, Calif./Georgia Tech 30 So. Forward Takori Rooks Memphis, Tenn./Bartlett HS 33 Sr. Center James Hampshire Flagstaff, Ariz./Casper College PACIFIC MEN’S BASKETBALL NOTES MEET2 THE NEWCOMERS: STATISTICAL COMPARISON (19-20) • Pacific welcomes five new student-athletes who transferred to the program during the offseason: Jordan Bell PAC CATEGORY NEV (Loyola Marymount), Jalen Brown (Eastern Arizona CC), Jervay Green (Nebraska), Marial Mading (Chipola Col- 23-10 Overall Record 19-12 lege) and Nigel Shadd (Kansas State). 15-3 at Home 12-3 • Bell- Scored in double digits nine times during 2019-20 with LMU, including a 14-point, 13-rebound performance 7-5 on the Road 4-7 at Pepperdine on Jan. 16, 2020… averaged 7.2 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists under coach Mike Dunlap 1-2 Neutral 3-2 69.7 Points Per Game 77.1 • Brown- Averaged 17.8 points per game during his one year at Eastern Arizona CC (2019-20), good for seventh in 64.5 Opp. Points Per Game 72.4 the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC), while also adding 3.7 rebounds and 1.8 assists per .340 FG% .447 game… drained 123 total three-pointers, ranking first in all of NJCAA Division I...Overall, his 42.9 percent clip from .339 Opp. FG% .404 behind-the-arc helped him earn All-ACCAC Second Team Honors in addition to being selected to the Region I First .667 FT% .753 Team .706 Opp. FT% .717 • Green- Comes to UOP after one year with Nebraska...As a junior, appeared in 28 games for the Cornhuskers, .450 3 PT FG% .383 including 15 starts...Overall, averaged 8.2 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game in 2019-20, with his 54 total .416 Opp. 3 PT FG% .298 assists being good enough for second on the team 36.1 Rebounds Per Game 38.5 28.2 Opp. Rebounds Per Game 35.8 • Mading- Appeared in 26 games in his lone season with the Indians averaging 12.0 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.4 11.6 Assists Per Game 14.9 assists per game, which included 17 starts...Overall, the versatile wing hit 33 shots from downtown in 2019-20 12.4 Turnovers Per Game 12.0 0.9 Assist/Turnover Ratio 1.2 • Shadd- Appeared in 13 games for the Wildcats as a redshirt freshman, including seeing action in seven Big 12 games in 2018-19... This past season, Shadd appeared in only 3 games for Kansas State due to injury, recording a 5.7 Steals Per Game 5.1 season-high three minutes against Kansas on Jan. 21 3.9 Blocks Per Game 3.5 THINGS TO KNOW: •Pacific returns to action after Saturday’s contest versus Fresno State was postponed due to a delay in receiving COVID-19 test results because of a courrier-related issue. Pacific defeated UC Riverside in its opener on Wednesday by a final of 66-60 after leading by as many as 17. • The Tigers return nine total players from last season, including six of whom averaged over 15 minutes of action per game in 2019-20. • Pacific will rely on its young backcourt to take their next step as sophomoresDaniss Jenkins, who was Pacific’s first 2020-21 WCC STANDINGS ever WCC All-Freshman Team selection last season, and Pierre Crockrell II, who led the conference and was fourth in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.41) while also finishing in the top 10 in the WCC in assists per game Team WCC Pct. Overall Pct. (3.30), are set to lead the Tigers. BYU 3-0 1.000 3-0 1.000 SCU 2-0 1.000 2-0 1.000 • Junior Jahbril Price-Noel (.455 3pt %) and senior Justin Moore (23.0 mpg, 8.1 ppg) are also upperclassmen to GON 2-0 1.000 2-0 1.000 watch this season. PAC 1-0 1.000 1-0 1.000 POR 2-1 .667 2-1 .667 SCOUTING THE WOLF PACK: SMC 2-1 .667 2-1 .667 • Nevada is retooling after losing their top three leading scorers from last season in Jalen Harris, Jazz Johnson and LMU 1-1 .500 1-1 .500 Lindsey Drew PEP 1-1 .500 1-1 .500 USF 2-2 .500 2-2 .500 • Second-year head coach Steve Alford guided the Wolf Pack to a 19-12 record in his first saeson back in the Moun- USD 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 tain West after serving as the head coach of New Mexico from 2007-2013. • Grant Sherfield has paced the Nevada offense over their first two games, averaging 16 points and 5 assists per game while junior Robby Robinson has led the Wolf Pack on the glass, pulling down 9.5 rebounds per game. 2020-21 PRESEASON POLL • Nevada was picked to finish sixth in the Mountain West preseason poll. Team Points (first-place votes) Gonzaga 81 (9) FOLLOW US: BYU 69 (1) • For more updates and more information on the 2020-21 Pacific men’s basketball team, be sure to follow @Pacific- Saint Mary’s 63 MensBB on Twitter, @pacificmensbb on Instagram and @PacificMensBB on Facebook. Pepperdine 57 San Francisco 52 Santa Clara 38 Loyola Marymount 33 Pacific 31 San Diego 16 Portland 10 NOV. 30, 2020 PACIFIC AT NEVADA PACIFIC MEN’S BASKETBALL NOTES 3 2020-21 QUICK FACTS ACTIVE ROSTER Location ..........................................................Stockton, Calif. No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. Hometown/Last School Nickname ..................................................................... Tigers 0 Marial Mading F 6-11 200 R-So. Perth, Australia/Chipola College Colors ........................................................ Orange and Black 1 Jordan Bell F 6-8 221 Gr. Ingelwood, Calif./Loyola Marymount Affiliation ................................................... NCAA Division I 2 Jalen Brown G 6-3 170 So. Portland, Ore./Eastern Arizona CC Conference ........................................West Coast Conference 3 Pierre Crockrell II G 6-0 175 So. Tacoma, Wash./Prolific Prep Founded ..............................1851 (CA First Chartered Univ.) 4 Daniss Jenkins G 6-3 165 So. Dallas, Texas/Dallas Hillcrest HS Enrollment ......................................... 3,548 Undergraduates 10 Jonathan Salazar F 6-6 250 So. Panama/St. John Bosco HS President ............................................