MALIBU, Calif. — San Diego men's basketball travels north on the Pacific Coast Highway for its second go-around with the Pepperdine Waves, Wednesday evening in Malibu's Firestone Fieldhouse.

The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ while Jack Cronin (PxP, X: @JackCroninPXP) while be calling the action over radio airwaves on USDToreros.com/watch. Inside coverage can also be found on the @USDMBB social channels.

THE WAVE RUNDOWN

• Pepperdine is 6-16 on the season, 1-8 in West Coast Conference play, the lone win coming by a margin of four vs. Portland on Jan. 14

• USD trails in the all-time series, 47-59, however having won eight of the last 11 ... San Diego is 19-28 as the away team, winners of three of the last four in Malibu

This Season's First Meeting: An 83-63 win over Pepperdine in the JCP on Jan. 8 was San Diego men's hoops' largest margin of victory over a conference opponent since March 2019 ... Ty-Laur Johnson posted a 14-point, 10-assist double-double – the first of its kind for a Torero since March 2018 ... On a night where USD logged a season-best (DI) field goal percentage of 54.2% and converted at a 45.8% (11-24) clip from beyond the arc, grad guard Adrian McIntyre led the Torero scoring contingent with a 16-point effort with the flu.

LAST TIME OUT

- Stark contrasts in shooting splits proved a big difference in an 85-73 loss to Santa Clara on Saturday

- The WCC's second-place Broncos, now 8-1 in conference play, shot lights out from start to finish, 63.5% from the field to San Diego's mere 39.4% ... A game after hitting a program-best 15 3-pointers, the Toreros made a season-low just three in 23 attempts against Santa Clara

- Despite an off-shooting night, USD found silver linings in other aspects of the game against the Quad-2 opponent; the Toreros forced 21 turnovers out of the Broncos and grabbed 17 offensive rebounds against one of the best rebounding teams in the country

- The West Coast Conference's scoring and steals leader, San Diego junior Ty-Laur Johnson fronted the Torero effort to start, finishing with 19 points and four swipes, but the Broncos simply would not miss ... The Toreros would keep shooting good shots, themselves having 19 more attempted field goals than the guests, but the attempts seemed to bounce off every part of the rim

- It was grad guard Adrian McIntyre who returned to form late in the game to cut down a 26-point Santa Clara lead to just 12 by game's end as the Toreros even went on a streak of 10 straight made field goals 

- McIntyre finished with a season-best 20 points on 8-10 shooting with six rebounds and two steals

A PROGRAM RECORD FROM DEEP

• San Diego hit 15 3-pointers in a 96-92 win over Washington State on Jan. 21, tied most in a single-game for the team, the fourth time doing so, first since Feb. 8, 2018 vs. Pepperdine ... Seven Toreros combined on the record as the team went 15-28 (53.6%) from beyond the arc, shooting 63.6% from deep in the second half

TRIPLE-DOUBLE AND A 30-BURGER IN THE SAME GAME

• A triple-double by Assane Diop and a 32-point effort from Tim Moore Jr. highlighted the Toreros' 113-67 win over Bethesda on Jan. 17 to round out conference play

• Diop had never had a double-double in his collegiate career but did one better with his 15-rebound, 11-point, 10-assist effort, plus four steals, finishing a whopping plus-51 in the game in 33 minutes played

• Moore posted the career high scoring effort by making each of his first 10 field goal attempts and all 12 at the charity stripe, also logging two blocks and five rebounds in just 25 minutes ... The Houston native's 25 in the first half alone was more than a Torero had scored in a game this season while he became the fifth Torero to attempt 12 or more free throws in a game and make all of them, one shy of the record ... The next game, a win vs. Washington State, Ty-Laur Johnson scored 26 points in the second half (career high 28 total) to make it two straight games that a Torero had scored 25-plus in a half

TY-LAUR'S TAKEOVER, TAKEAWAYS

• In conference play, 6-foot, 155-pound Ty-Laur Johnson leads the WCC in scoring average at 20.3 points and steals with 3.3 per game (over one more than next best) and is fourth in assists at 5.6

• The Brooklyn native led the Toreros to a WCC-opening 66-54 victory over NET No. 101 Pacific on Dec. 28 ... Johnson was 6-13 from the field, a career-best 5-8 from three, and 5-6 from the line as his 22 points were one shy of his USD season best ... He also swiped six steals, which tied for the second most by a Torero in a single game, just one shy of the San Diego record

5 x 1,000 =

• On Jan. 8, Juanse Gorosito surpassed 1,000 career NCAA points to join four other current teammates in the 1K-point club: Dominique Ford (1,120+), Toneari Lane (1,391+), Adrian McIntyre (1,300+) and Tim Moore Jr. (1,248+)

• Three of the five achieved 1,000 points solely in DI hoops – Gorosito (prev. Ball State, Portland), Ford (prev. Southern Utah, Idaho) and Lane (prev. Georgia State, Winthrop)

MAKING BIG WAVES

• The dominant 83-63 win over Pepperdine in the JCP on Jan. 8 was San Diego men's hoops' largest margin of victory over a conference opponent since a March 9, 2019 WCC Tournament quarterfinal, 80-57 win over BYU

• In a well-rounded team game, USD shot a season-best 54.2% from the field, 45.8% from three, dishing out 21 assists with 12 steals and finishing +8 in rebounds

FIRST 10-ASSIST DOUBLE-DOUBLE SINCE...

• In the Jan. 8 thumping of Pepperdine, a red-hot Ty-Laur Johnson notched a 14-point, 10-assist double-double, USD's first of it's sort since Isaiah Wright had three druing the 2017-18 season ... Wright's and the Toreros' most recent was a 14-point, 11-assist performance in a CIT win over Hartford on March 15, 2018

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