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MALIBU, Calif. \u2014 Pepperdine men’s basketball (8-21, 3-13 WCC) will close out the regular season this week, hosting a pair of games at Firestone Fieldhouse. The Waves welcome Seattle (17-12, 6-10 WCC) Wednesday night at 6 p.m. before a Saturday matchup with Washington State (12-17, 7-9 WCC) at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game marks senior day, as graduate students Javon Cooley<\/a> & Preston Phillips<\/a> will be honored and recognized pregame. Fans in attendance will also receive a Firestone floor piece while supplies last, commemorating the final full season of Pepperdine basketball at Firestone Fieldhouse. The Waves will move into the Mountain at Mullin Park during the 2026-27 season, as Saturday’s contest will be the final West Coast Conference game in the iconic venue.<\/p>\n Wednesday’s game will see the Pepperdine soccer squad be recognized for winning their second straight WCC Championship this past fall.<\/p>\n Wednesday, Feb. 25 – 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 – 5 p.m. LAST TIME OUT<\/p>\n
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SERIES HISTORY<\/p>\n
SCOUTING THE OPPONENT<\/p>\n
Pepperdine will return for the WCC Tournament from Orleans Arena in Las Vegas from Mar. 5-10. Seedings and a bracket will be announced following this weekend’s contests.<\/p>\n ABOUT PEPPERDINE MEN’S BASKETBALL
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\n\tThe Waves fell by a score of 83-73 at Oregon State this past Saturday.
\n\tAaron Clark<\/a> recorded his third 30-point effort of the season, scoring 32 points.
\n\tClark knocked down five three-pointers, marking three straight efforts with five or more threes.
\n\tDavid Mager<\/a> netted a career-high 16 points in 16 minutes, accounting for all of the Waves’ bench points.
\n\tMager knocked down six of seven field goal attempts and three of four looks from downtown.
\n\tStefan Cicic<\/a> recorded a career-high 36 minutes, posting eight points, five rebounds and three blocks.
\n\tThe Waves’ four offensive rebounds matched a season-low, while Oregon State’s 19 offensive rebounds marked a season-high allowed by Pepperdine.
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\n\tAaron Clark<\/a> ranks seventh in the WCC at 15.7 points per game this season.
\n\tClark has scored 17+ points in eight straight efforts, and has averaged 24.9 points per game during the stretch.
\n\tHe has shot 29-for-54 from three-point range (.537) over that span.
\n\tClark logged a career-high 33 points at LMU (Feb.14) while knocking down five of seven looks from three-point distance. He followed it up going 7-for-8 from three at Portland for 29 points, before logging 32 points last time out at Oregon State.
\n\tClark is the only player in the WCC with four efforts of 30+ points this season while being one of 28 in the country to accomplish the feat.
\n\tClark is one of three players in the WCC to be averaging at least 15.5 points per game,\u00a03.0 rebounds per game and 2.5 assists per game.
\n\tClark has scored 29 or more points in three straight efforts.
\n\tStyles Phipps<\/a> is one of four players in the country averaging over 13 points, six rebounds and five assists per game.
\n\tPhipps is currently fourth in the WCC in assists per game at 5.0.
\n\tPhipps is the only player in the WCC to have both a points\/rebounds double-double and a points\/assists double-double this season.
\n\tPhipps logged a career-high 12 assists last week at Portland, while collecting a season-high five steals. It marked the lone game from an NCAA player this season with at least 19 points, 12 assists, six rebounds and five steals.
\n\tPhipps leads the conference in free throws made during conference play with 86 (.811), having made 16 more than the next-highest mark.
\n\tPhipps\u00a0has paced the Waves with 1.4 steals per game this season.
\n\tJavon Cooley<\/a> comes in as the Waves third-leading scorer at 11.4 points per game while\u00a0being second on the squad with 4.6 rebounds per game.
\n\tCooley knocked down a career-high five three-pointers at Portland last week on ten attempts, while matching a career-high four assists and career-high three steals.
\n\tCooley\u00a0has hit multiple three-pointers in eight games this season, including three times in his last five affairs.
\n\tCooley ranks sixth in the conference with an .842 clip from the free throw line, and had a streak of 44 consecutive made free throws this season from Nov. 7-Dec. 18.
\n\tStefan Cicic<\/a> has set new career-highs in minutes in four straight efforts, averaging 10.5 points, 5.75 rebounds and 2.25 blocks per game over that span.
\n\tHe set a career-high in points (17) and rebounds (7) while making his first career start at\u00a0Portland last week.
\n\tCicic registered five blocks and five rebounds at Saint Mary’s on Feb. 11.
\n\tCicic posted 13 points with six rebounds against LMU, having the game-winning putback dunk with 5.4 seconds remaining against the Lions.
\n\tDavid Mager<\/a> had a career-high 16 points last time out on 6-for-7 shooting from the field.
\n\tMager has logged four games this season in double figures in scoring.
\n\tPepperdine currently ranks 86th in the country in free throw percentage at .754.
\n\tThis mark ranks fifth in the WCC, as the Waves have shot over 70-percent from the line in 17 of the past 25 games.
\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 15 teams in the country having more.
\n\tThe Waves hit their two-highest percentage shooting marks from three-point range of the\u00a0season across their last three games\u00a0(10-for-18 against LMU) and (16-for-28 at Portland).
\n\tThe shooting output at Portland with 16 three-pointers made marked the most threes in a game for Pepperdine since Jan. 8, 2008.
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\n\tThe Waves enter with a 12-22 all-time record against Seattle.
\n\tThis includes a 9-5 mark at home for Pepperdine and 7-2 record from Firestone Fieldhouse.
\n\tThe Redhawks’ most recent trip to Malibu came on Jan. 2, 2011, with the Waves earning an 84-64 victory.
\n\tThe Redhawks took the previous meeting this season in Seattle, prevailing in the final minute, 83-81.
\n\tWashington State leads the all-time series 6-3 against the Waves.
\n\tThe Cougars have won all three matchups that have come in WCC play over the past two seasons, having not played since 2013-14 prior.
\n\tThe Waves have a 2-2\u00a0mark at home against the Cougars.
\n\tWashington State won the previous meeting this season in Pullman (Jan. 24) by a score of 95-79.
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\n\tSeattle enters play with a 17-12 overall mark and 6-10 record in conference play.
\n\tThe Redhawks have posted a 13-4 record at home\u00a0while being 3-7 on the road, going without a conference win on the road this season.
\n\tSeattle is coming off a 71-59 win over Portland this past Saturday.
\n\tThe Redhawks are led by senior Brayden Maldonado who ranks 12th in the WCC with 14.2 points per\u00a0game.
\n\tSeattle’s Will Heimbrodt paces the conference with 2.5 blocks per game.
\n\tWashington State has registered a 12-17 record this season while being 7-9 in WCC play.
\n\tThe Cougars have dropped four of their last five games, most recently an 83-67 defeat at home to Saint Mary’s.
\n\tFreshman guard Ace Glass has posted a team-high 16 points per game which is fifth in the conference.
\n\tThe Cougars boast the fifth-highest scoring offense in the WCC (76.6 points per game) while being second in the circuit\u00a0in three-point percentage (.373).
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\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