2011-12 Men's Basketball Game Notes
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22011-12011-12 MMEN’SEN’S BBASKETBALLASKETBALL GGAMEAME NNOTESOTES AFTER MARTY WILSON ERA BEGINS WITH WIN, WAVES GO TO ARIZONA STATE PEPPERDINE AT ARIZONA STATE 2011-12 SCHEDULE/RESULTS Date .............Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11/5 Occidental (exhibition) W 78-72 Site ............................... Wells Fargo Arena ................................................ Tempe, Ariz. 11/12 Pomona-Pitzer W 59-50 Time ...............5:30 p.m. PT / 6:30 p.m. MT 11/15 at Arizona State 6:30 p.m. MT TV .............................foxsportsarizona.com Audio/Blog .............. pepperdinesports.com 11/19 at CSU Bakersfi eld 7 p.m. Series .....................Pepperdine leads 10-7 11/21 Central Michigan 7 p.m. Last Meeting ......................ASU won 61-40 ...................................11/23/2008 in Tempe 11/26 at Texas-San Antonio 12 p.m. CT 11/28 at UCLA (Prime Ticket) 8 p.m. PEPPERDINE WAVES ARIZONA STATE SUN DEVILS 2011-12 Record .....................................1-0 2011-12 Record .....................................1-0 12/3 Hawaii 7 p.m. WCC Record ..................................0-0 Conference Record ........................0-0 12/7 at Northern Arizona 6:30 p.m. MT Away Record ..................................0-0 Home Record .................................1-0 Head Coach........................... Marty Wilson Head Coach...........................Herb Sendek 12/10 Cal State Northridge 7 p.m. SID ....................................... Roger Horne SID ................................... Doug Tammaro 12/18 Montana State 5 p.m. E-Mail [email protected] E-Mail [email protected] Offi ce .............................310-506-4455 Offi ce .......................... (480) 965-5799 12/22 # Washington State 7 p.m. Cell ................................805-279-4551 Cell .................................................n/a 12/29 * San Francisco 7 p.m. Website ................... pepperdinesports.com Website ............................thesundevils.com 12/31 * Saint Mary’s 3 p.m. GAME NOTABLES MATCHUP 1/5 * at Gonzaga 6 p.m. • Pepperdine and ASU have arguably last Pepperdine Arizona State year’s two top recruits from the state 59.0 Points/Game 78.0 1/7 * at Portland TBA of Arizona in the Waves’ Jordan Baker 50.0 Opp. Points/Game 72.0 1/12 * Loyola Marymount (ESPNU) 7 p.m. (Tempe HS) and the Sun Devils’ Jahii +9.0 Scoring Margin +6.0 Carson (Mesa HS). .346 FG % .449 1/14 * at San Francisco TBA • ASU has won fi ve straight in series, last .382 Opp. FG% .344 1/19 * at Saint Mary’s 7 p.m. Waves’ win was in 1957-58. .286 3FG% .333 • Pepperdine will return to the state for .320 Opp. 3FG% .333 1/21 * Brigham Young TBA a game at Northern Arizona on .810 FT% .800 1/26 * at San Diego 7 p.m. December 7th. 42.0 Rebounds/Game 43.0 1/28 * Santa Clara 7 p.m. • The Marty Wilson era began with a 29.0 Opp. Rebounds/Game 36.0 victory on Saturday night. +13.0 Rebounding Margin +7.0 2/2 * at Loyola Marymount 7:30 p.m. • Caleb Willis is coming off a career-high 14.0 Assists/Game 12.0 2/4 * Gonzaga 7 p.m. 18 point effort in the season opener 12.0 Turnovers/Game 22.0 (his previous high was eight). +0.0 Turnover Margin -5.0 2/9 * San Diego 7 p.m. 2/11 * at Brigham Young 4 p.m. MT PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP 2/16 at Seattle 7:10 p.m. # Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Cl. Hometown PPG RPG APG 10 Joshua Lowery G 6-3 200 Jr. Phoenix, Ariz. 7.0 6.0 3.0 2/18 * Portland 7 p.m. 23 Caleb Willis G 6-2 220 Jr. Stockbridge, Ga. 18.0 3.0 4.0 31 Nikolas Skouen G 6-4 190 So. Bergen, Norway 2.0 1.0 1.0 2/23 * at Santa Clara 7 p.m. 41 Taylor Darby F 6-8 230 Sr. San Marcos, Calif. 14.0 6.0 3.0 44 Corbin Moore C 6-10 235 Sr. Cypress, Calif. 0.0 10.0 1.0 2/29/3-5 at Zappos.com WCC Tournament PROJECTED RESERVES 1 Jordan Baker G 6-4 185 Fr. Tempe, Ariz. 4.0 2.0 1.0 * West Coast Conference game 2 Dominic Redix G 6-0 185 So. Apple Valley, Calif. — — — # Cougar Hardwood Classic (Seattle, Wash.) 11 Richard Branning G 6-2 175 Sr. Menlo Park, Calif. — — — Home games in bold. 14 Dane Suttle Jr. G/F 6-6 215 Sr. Los Angeles, Calif. 8.0 2.0 0.0 20 Lorne Jackson G 6-2 205 Sr. Simi Valley, Calif. — — — 21 Hector Harold F 6-7 210 So. Pasadena, Calif. 0.0 0.0 0.0 24 Ramon Eaton F 6-8 200 Fr. Sacramento, Calif. 6.0 8.0 1.0 33 Don Martin G 6-4 205 Sr. Gladstone, Mo. — — — 34 Manny Ochenje F 6-9 205 Fr. Abuja, Nigeria 0.0 2.0 0.0 50 Moriba De Freitas F 6-9 220 Jr. Bon Air Gardens, Trinidad — — — 55 Jan Maehlen C 7-0 300 So. Tucson, Ariz. — — — 1 MALIBU, Calif. — The Marty Wilson era got off to a solid start with a season-opening victory against Pomona-Pitzer, but things get a little tougher in the Pepperdine men’s basketball team’s second game, as the Waves visit Arizona State of the Pac-12 on Tuesday. PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY GAME #2 — Tuesday (Nov. 15) at Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe, Ariz.: Pepperdine (1-0) QUICK FACTS at Arizona State (1-0) at 5:30 p.m. PT / 6:30 pm. MT. Location ......................................Malibu, Calif. 90263 Founded ....................... 1937 (Malibu Campus 1972) ON THE WEB — A free webcast of the game will be hosted by foxsportsarizona. Enrollment .................... 8,000 (3,000 undergraduate) com. Wave Casts (Pepperdine’s live video broadcasts of all home games and audio Nickname.........................................................Waves broadcasts of all road contests) are free to all users at www.pepperdinesports.com. Colors .................................. Blue, Orange and White Veteran play-by-play man Al Epstein, now in his 27th season with the Waves, is behind Conference .............................................. West Coast Home Court .............................. Firestone Fieldhouse the microphone. Also on the offi cial website, fans can join an interactive live blog using capacity .........................................................3,104 Cover It Live technology for all road games. Finally, follow the program on Twitter at @ opened ...........................................................1973 PEPPBasketball. President .......................................Andrew K. Benton Athletic Director ..................................Dr. Steve Potts Athletic Department phone ................(310) 506-4150 ARIZONA STATE — Pepperdine leads the all-time series 10-7. This will be the seventh Ticket Offi ce phone ..........................(866) WAVE-TIX straight time the teams have met in Tempe (ASU has won the last fi ve, Pepperdine’s last win in the series was on the road in December 1957). When the teams met in November MEN’S BASKETBALL STAFF 2008, the #15-ranked Sun Devils (led by James Harden’s 33 points) earned a 61-40 Head Coach...................... Marty Wilson (1st season) victory. That was the fi rst matchup between the two schools since December 1967. The alma mater .....................................Pepperdine ‘89 Sun Devils, who beat Montana State 78-72 in their season opener, were picked to fi nish Assoc. Head Coach ...........Mark Amaral (1st season) ninth in the Pac-12. alma mater .............................College of Idaho ‘90 Assistant Coach............... Bryant Moore (1st season) alma mater .....................................Texas Tech ‘93 LAST GAME — Caleb Willis scored a career-high 18 points to lead Pepperdine to a Assistant Coach................Damin Lopez (4th season) season-opening 59-50 victory over Pomona-Pitzer in the season opener for both teams in alma mater .....................................Pepperdine ‘94 Firestone Fieldhouse on Saturday night (Nov. 12). Willis sank four of fi ve three-pointers, Dir. of Basketball Operations .............John Impelman Graduate Assistant/Video ........................... Matt Levy including one at the halftime buzzer that put Pepperdine ahead 26-25. It wouldn’t be easy Offi ce Phone ......................................(310) 506-4161 putting away the Division III Sagehens, which took a 36-34 lead with 8:40 to play in the game. But that’s when Pepperdine took over for good, as Taylor Darby scored fi ve of MEN’S BASKETBALL HISTORY his 14 points to start a 9-0 run, putting the Waves ahead 43-36 with 5:19 to play. Willis’ fourth three-pointer made it a double-digit lead for the fi rst time at 48-38 with 3:12 to play. 2010-11 Overall Record .....................................12-21 2010-11 Conference Record ........................ 5-9 (6th) Neither team shot particularly well (Pepperdine at 34.6%, Pomona-Pitzer at 38.2%), but Starters Returning/Lost..........................................4/1 the Waves had big advantages on the boards (42-29) and at the free throw line (17-for-21 Letterwinners Returning/Lost...............................10/6 to 0-for-1). Newcomers...............................................................6 All-Time Record (entering 2011-12) ................1,130-955 INJURIES — The Waves aren’t at full strength at the start of the season. Senior guard seasons..............................................................73 Lorne Jackson may redshirt the season after having surgery this past summer to repair fi rst season................................................1938-39 a torn ACL. An All-WCC honorable mention selection last season, Jackson would have All-Time WCC Record (entering 2011-12) .........389-375 seasons..............................................................56 been the team’s top returning scorer at 13.2 ppg. Sophomore center Jan Maehlen fi rst season................................................1955-56 fractured his right hand on Oct. 29 and is expected to be held out of full contact for a NCAA Championships Appearances ......................13