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MALIBU, Calif. \u2014 Pepperdine men’s basketball (6-17, 1-9 WCC) will play on the road at Seattle (14-9, 3-7 WCC) Wednesday night at 7 p.m., before hosting Pacific (15-9, 6-5 WCC) Saturday at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
Pepperdine at Seattle Pepperdine vs. Pacific Saturday’s game\u00a0marks Willie’s Birthday Bash\u00a0& Jr. Waves Day at\u00a0Firestone Fieldhouse. The first 50 fans will receive Willie the Wave bobbleheads, with cotton candy pregame for Jr. Waves members and cake at halftime.<\/p>\n LAST TIME OUT<\/p>\n
GAME NOTES<\/p>\n
SERIES HISTORY<\/p>\n
ABOUT PEPPERDINE MEN’S BASKETBALL
\nWednesday, Feb. 4 – 7 p.m.
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\nSaturday, Feb. 7 – 5 p.m.
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\n\tThe Waves fell in overtime at home against San Diego by a score of 92-88 this past Wednesday.
\n\tAaron Clark<\/a> scored a career-high 31 points while shooting 12-for-19 from the field.
\n\tClark matched a career-high with five three-pointers made.
\n\tStyles Phipps<\/a> posted 21 points to go along with nine assists and seven rebounds.
\n\tPhipps shot 10-for-11 from the free throw line in the contest.
\n\tDanilo Dozic<\/a> registered 17 points and a matched career-best eight rebounds.
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\n\tThe Waves are one of two teams in the West Coast Conference to have four players\u00a0averaging 11 points per game or more (Aaron Clark<\/a>, Javon Cooley<\/a>, Styles Phipps<\/a>, Danilo Dozic<\/a>).
\n\tSeven players have finished as the leading scorer in a game for Pepperdine this season, the most in the WCC, with only six teams in the country having more.
\n\tPepperdine currently ranks 50th in the country in free throw percentage at .762.
\n\tThis mark ranks fifth in the WCC, as the Waves have converted 337 of 442 attempts from the charity stripe this season.
\n\tThe Waves have secured double-digit offensive boards in 13 of 23 games this season.
\n\tStyles Phipps<\/a> is one of four players in the country averaging over 13 points, six rebounds and 4.5 assists per game.
\n\tPhipps is currently fourth in the WCC in assists per game at 4.9.
\n\tPhipps ranks eighth in the conference with 6.1 rebounds per game, as the Pepperdine point guard has also corralled 45 offensive rebounds through 23 games this campaign (1.9 per game).
\n\tHe has shot 51-for-57 (.895) from the free-throw line across the past seven games, and has led the Waves in conference play at 14.8 points per game.
\n\tJavon Cooley<\/a> comes in as the Waves third-leading scorer at 11.7 points per game while\u00a0being second on the squad with 4.7 rebounds per game.
\n\tCooley and Phipps each rank within the top-25 of the conference in both scoring and\u00a0rebounding.
\n\tCooley ranks seventh in the WCC in free throw percentage (.851), and had a streak of 44 consecutive made free throws this season, snapped at Long Beach State.
\n\tAaron Clark<\/a> is one of two Waves averaging over 13 points per game this season.
\n\tClark has posted 25 points or more in four games this season,
\n\tClark posted a career-high 31 points last time out against San Diego, also having a 30-point effort against Stephen F. Austin earlier this season.
\n\tClark currently ranks seventh in the WCC with 1.5 steals per game on the season.
\n\tClark is one of three players in the WCC to be averaging at least 13 points per game,\u00a03.5 rebounds per game and 1.5 steals per game.
\n\tDanilo Dozic<\/a> has scored in double figures 12 times this season and leads the team in three-pointers made with 36 (36-for-107).
\n\tDozic recorded a season-high eight rebounds last time out against San Diego.
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\n\tSeattle holds a 21-12 lead in the all-time series.
\n\tPepperdine is 3-15 in road games at Seattle.
\n\tThe most recent meeting saw a 62-45 home win for Seattle in the CBI on Mar. 18, 2015.
\n\tThe two sides have played just four contests since 1980.
\n\tPacific holds a 43-38 lead in the all-time series with the Waves.
\n\tPepperdine is 20-15 at home in the fixture.
\n\tThe Waves have won five of six meetings over the past three seasons, including a 60-44 win in Malibu in 2024-25.
\n\tPacific earned a 74-69 victory at home\u00a0this past month against the Waves.
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\nSCOUTING THE OPPONENT<\/p>\n
\n\tSeattle enters play with a 3-7 mark in WCC play, dropping its most recent two contests at Pacific and Washington State.
\n\tThe Redhawks\u00a0are led by Brayden Maldonado, who averages 15 points per game which ranks ninth in the WCC.
\n\tWill Heimbrodt leads the conference with 2.5 blocks per game as the defensive anchor for Seattle.
\n\tSeattle boasts the second-best turnover-margin in the conference at +3.57.
\n\tPacific has posted a 6-5 record in WCC play this season, most recently falling at San Francisco this past Saturday.
\n\tThe Tigers are led by Elias Ralph who ranks in the top-7 in the conference in both scoring (16.7 points per game) and rebounding (6.6 rebounds per game).
\n\tTJ Wainwright ranks fifth in the conference with 2.3 three-pointers made per game.
\n\tPacific is the third-best rebounding side in the WCC with 38.3 per game.
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\nNext up, the Waves will head to Moraga, Calif., taking on Saint Mary’s (19-4, 8-2 WCC) next Wednesday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nPepperdine 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.<\/p>\n