San Diego (3-8, 2-5 WCC) • Pacific (7-7, 4-6 WCC)
Feb. 23 • 12 p.m. | Stream • WCC Network | Live Stats • USDToreros.com
Portland (6-14, 0-11 WCC)
Feb. 25 • 6 p.m. | Stream • WCC Network | Live Stats • USDToreros.com
Pepperdine (10-9, 6-4 WCC)
Feb. 27 • 1 p.m. | TV/Stream • Stadium | Live Audio • Live Stats • USDToreros.com
Jenny Craig Pavilion (5,100) • San Diego, Calif.
Stream • WCC Network | Live Stats • USDToreros.com
SAN DIEGO—San Diego will host three games in five days in the Jenny Craig Pavilion to close out the 2020-21 regular season.
The Toreros (3-8, 2-5 WCC) will take on Pacific (7-7, 4-6 WCC) on Tuesday for a midday game beginning at noon PT. USD will then face Portland (6-14, 0-11 WCC) on Thursday night at 6 p.m. PT. San Diego will wrap up the regular season against Pepperdine (10-9, 6-4 WCC) on Saturday afternoon with tip-off set for 1 p.m. PT.
Tuesday and Thursday's games will stream via the WCC Network with Jack Cronin on the call. Saturday's finale will be televised nationally and streamed via Stadium. Live statistics will be available via USDToreros.com.
LAST TIME OUT
San Diego went 1-1 on its road trip last week, taking Thursday's game at Santa Clara, 71-60 and falling to No. 1 Gonzaga on Saturday, 106-69.
Joey Calcaterra put up a career-high 23 points in the victory over the Broncos, finishing 9-of-16 from the field and 2-of-4 from beyond the arc.
Ben Pyle and
Vladimir Pinchuk also scored double-digits, collecting 15 points and 13 points respectively. Pinchuk also added 10 rebounds for his third double-double of the season.
San Diego had four players score in double figures in Saturday's 106-69 loss at No. 1 Gonzaga.
Josh Parrish led the Toreros with 13 points, while
Jared Rodriguez,
Joey Calcaterra and
Marion Humphrey all added 10 points.
USD shot 44 percent from the field but could not keep pace with the number one team in the nation, as the Bulldogs hit 56 percent from the field and 21-of-25 from the free throw line.
Gonzaga collected 70 points in the paint, compared to 40 for USD and outrebounded the Toreros 47-30. The Toreros forced 14 turnovers, converting to 10 points in the contest but committed 18 which led to 33 points for GU.
ALL-TIME SERIES WITH PACIFIC
Tuesday will be the 24th meeting between USD and Pacific and first this season. USD trails the Tigers in the all-time series 8-15. The teams were originally set to meet Jan. 9 before several schedule interruptions pushed the contest later in the season.
The teams first met during the 1979-80 season. The Tigers swept the series in 2019-20 and have won six of the last seven matchups. USD's last win came Jan. 5, 2019—a 73-64 victory in the JCP.
ALL-TIME SERIES WITH PORTLAND
Thursday is the 90th all-time meeting between USD and Portland. The Toreros hold a 58-31 advantage all-time against the Pilots. USD took the first meeting this season 78-70 in the Chiles Center, led by Parrish's 20 points, 8 rebounds.
The teams first met during the 1979-80 season and USD has won the last five meetings, including an 88-81 double-overtime win in the Jenny Craig Pavilion last season and their 2018-19 WCC Tournament opener against the Pilots.
ALL-TIME SERIES WITH PEPPERDINE
Saturday will be the 112th meeting and first this season between USD and Pepperdine. The Toreros trail the Waves in the all-time series 46-65.
The teams first met during the 1958-59 season. The Waves are riding a four-game win streak after sweeping the series in 2019-20 and 2018-19 and have won eight of the last 11 matchups.
LOOKING AHEAD
After closing out the regular season, San Diego will await seeding for the 2021 University Credit Union West Coast Conference Tournament set for March 4-9 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Seeds will be unveiled on Sunday, Feb. 28.
WCC ADOPTS NEW MODEL TO SEED UCU MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
With interruptions in the 2020-21 college basketball season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the WCC will not fully complete its full conference schedules, leaving some disparity in the number of conference games completed among member programs.
The WCC partnered with Ken Pomeroy to develop a model that uses a proprietary algorithm that best reflects conference games completed and yields an adjusted conference winning percentage for each men's basketball team. The adjusted conference winning percentage accounts for the strength of the opponent and the location (home/away) of the game played. The offensive and defensive efficiency metric is not utilized in the algorithm to determine a team's adjusted conference winning percentage.
The WCC will provide an updated report each Friday and Sunday over the final two weeks of the regular season. The final report, which will be the seeds for the 2021 men's and women's conference tournaments, will be unveiled on Sunday, Feb. 28.
