2011-12 Men's Basketball Game Notes
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22011-12011-12 MMEN’SEN’S BBASKETBALLASKETBALL GGAMEAME NNOTESOTES WAVES HOPE TO IMPROVE TO 3-0 AT CSU BAKERSFIELD ON SATURDAY NIGHT PEPPERDINE AT CSU BAKERSFIELD 2011-12 SCHEDULE/RESULTS Date ............ Saturday, November 19, 2011 11/5 Occidental (exhibition) W 78-72 Site ....................................... Icardo Center ........................................Bakersfi eld, Calif. 11/12 Pomona-Pitzer W 59-50 Time ..................................................7 p.m. 11/15 at Arizona State W 66-60 TV .......................................................none Audio/Blog .............. pepperdinesports.com 11/19 at CSU Bakersfi eld 7 p.m. Series ...............CSU Bakersfi eld leads 3-1 11/21 Central Michigan 7 p.m. Last Meeting ...................CSUB won 66-64 ...................................11/20/2010 in Malibu 11/26 at Texas-San Antonio 12 p.m. CT 11/28 at UCLA (Prime Ticket) 8 p.m. PEPPERDINE WAVES CSU BAKERSFIELD ROADRUNNERS 2011-12 Record .....................................2-0 2011-12 Record .....................................1-1 12/3 Hawaii 7 p.m. WCC Record ..................................0-0 Conference Record ........................n/a 12/7 at Northern Arizona 6:30 p.m. MT Away Record ..................................1-0 Home Record .................................0-0 Head Coach........................... Marty Wilson Head Coach.............................Rod Barnes 12/10 Cal State Northridge 7 p.m. SID ....................................... Roger Horne SID .................................. Corey Costelloe 12/18 Montana State 5 p.m. E-Mail [email protected] E-Mail [email protected] Offi ce .............................310-506-4455 Offi ce .......................... (661) 654-6071 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 ............................... gorunners.com 12/31 * Saint Mary’s 3 p.m. GAME NOTABLES MATCHUP 1/5 * at Gonzaga 6 p.m. • CSU Bakersfi eld is the fi rst college Pepperdine CSU Bakersfi eld basketball program to paint the fl oor of 62.5 Points/Game 61.0 1/7 * at Portland TBA its home court blue. 55.0 Opp. Points/Game 72.0 1/12 * Loyola Marymount (ESPNU) 7 p.m. • The road team has won all four previous +7.5 Scoring Margin -11.0 meetings between Pepperdine and .364 FG % .484 1/14 * at San Francisco TBA CSU Bakersfi eld. .361 Opp. FG% .525 1/19 * at Saint Mary’s 7 p.m. • Pepperdine is 2-0 for the fi rst time since .438 3FG% .417 1999-2000. .288 Opp. 3FG% .281 1/21 * Brigham Young TBA • Marty Wilson can join Wade Ruby (1938- .750 FT% .588 1/26 * at San Diego 7 p.m. 39) as the only Pepperdine coaches 39.0 Rebounds/Game 28.5 1/28 * Santa Clara 7 p.m. to start their full-time careers with 3-0 32.5 Opp. Rebounds/Game 28.0 records. +6.5 Rebounding Margin +0.5 2/2 * at Loyola Marymount 7:30 p.m. • With the help of Pepperdine’s win at 13.5 Assists/Game 11.5 2/4 * Gonzaga 7 p.m. Arizona State on Tuesday, the WCC is 13.0 Turnovers/Game 22.0 3-1 against the Pac-12 this season. +0.5 Turnover Margin -3.5 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. 10.0 5.5 5.5 2/18 * Portland 7 p.m. 23 Caleb Willis G 6-2 220 Jr. Stockbridge, Ga. 12.0 2.5 2.5 31 Nikolas Skouen G 6-4 190 So. Bergen, Norway 4.0 1.5 0.5 2/23 * at Santa Clara 7 p.m. 41 Taylor Darby F 6-8 230 Sr. San Marcos, Calif. 11.5 5.0 1.5 44 Corbin Moore C 6-10 235 Sr. Cypress, Calif. 2.5 9.5 0.5 2/29/3-5 at Zappos.com WCC Tournament PROJECTED RESERVES 1 Jordan Baker G 6-4 185 Fr. Tempe, Ariz. 5.5 2.0 1.5 * 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. 7.0 1.0 1.0 20 Lorne Jackson G 6-2 205 Sr. Simi Valley, Calif. — — — 21 Hector Harold F 6-7 210 So. Pasadena, Calif. 2.5 2.5 0.0 24 Ramon Eaton F 6-8 200 Fr. Sacramento, Calif. 6.5 6.0 0.5 33 Don Martin G 6-4 205 Sr. Gladstone, Mo. — — — 34 Manny Ochenje F 6-9 205 Fr. Abuja, Nigeria 1.0 1.0 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 Pepperdine men’s basketball team hopes to extend its 2-0 start — its fi rst since the 1999-2000 season — with a road game at CSU Bakersfi eld on Saturday night. The Waves, who are coming off a terrifi c road win at the Pac-12’s Arizona State, are in the midst of playing four of fi ve games on the road. Pepperdine is back in Firestone Fieldhouse on Monday night to face Central Michigan. PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY QUICK FACTS GAME #3 — Saturday (Nov. 19) at the Icardo Center in Bakersfi eld, Calif.: Pepperdine (2-0) at CSU Bakersfi eld (1-1) at 7 p.m. Location ......................................Malibu, Calif. 90263 Founded ....................... 1937 (Malibu Campus 1972) Enrollment .................... 8,000 (3,000 undergraduate) ON THE WEB — WaveCasts (Pepperdine’s live video broadcasts of all home games and Nickname.........................................................Waves audio 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/chat capacity .........................................................3,104 using 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 CSU BAKERSFIELD — Pepperdine trails the all-time series with CSU Bakersfi eld, 3-1. Ticket Offi ce phone ..........................(866) WAVE-TIX The series, which began in 2006-07, has seen the road team be victorious at all four meetings. Pepperdine’s win came during the 2007-08 season at the Rabobank Arena MEN’S BASKETBALL STAFF in Bakersfi eld, 90-80. The Roadrunners won in Malibu last year, 66-64. Saturday night’s Head Coach...................... Marty Wilson (1st season) game will be CSU Bakersfi eld’s home opener. The squad has lost at Oregon State and alma mater .....................................Pepperdine ‘89 beaten Cal Poly thus far. Assoc. Head Coach ...........Mark Amaral (1st season) alma mater .............................College of Idaho ‘90 LAST GAME — The Waves posted arguably one of their biggest victories in years when Assistant Coach............... Bryant Moore (1st season) alma mater .....................................Texas Tech ‘93 they went to Arizona State and beat the Pac-12 school, 66-60, on Tuesday night (Nov. Assistant Coach................Damin Lopez (4th season) 15). Joshua Lowery returned home to post a team-high 13 points and a career-high alma mater .....................................Pepperdine ‘94 eight assists. All 10 Waves scored, but Lowery was the only one in double-fi gures. The Dir. of Basketball Operations .............John Impelman Graduate Assistant/Video ........................... Matt Levy defense did the job, holding the Sun Devils to 34.0% shooting from the fi eld, including Offi ce Phone ......................................(310) 506-4161 7-for-27 (25.9%) on three-pointers. Pepperdine led nearly the entire game, going up by 14 points with a little more than seven minutes left before ASU made a game of it at the MEN’S BASKETBALL HISTORY end. 2010-11 Overall Record .....................................12-21 2010-11 Conference Record ........................ 5-9 (6th) GREAT START — Pepperdine is 2-0 for the fi rst time since 1999-2000 (the Waves made Starters Returning/Lost..........................................4/1 the NCAA Tournament that year). Only four head coaches have begun their full-time Letterwinners Returning/Lost...............................10/6 careers with 2-0 starts at Pepperdine: Wade Ruby (the program’s fi rst season in 1938- Newcomers...............................................................6 39), Robert Dowell (1948-49), Jan van Breda Kolff (1999-00) and now Marty Wilson. All-Time Record (entering 2011-12) ................1,130-955 seasons..............................................................73 3-0? — A win at CSU Bakersfi eld would give the Waves their fi rst 3-0 start since 1998-99 fi rst season................................................1938-39 (Lorenzo Romar’s fi nal season). The only coach in Pepperdine history to start his full-time All-Time WCC Record (entering 2011-12) .........389-375 seasons..............................................................56 career 3-0 was Wade Ruby in 1938-39 (according to program records, the Waves won fi rst season................................................1955-56 the fi rst seven games in their history). NCAA Championships Appearances ......................13 last .................................................................2002