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Game Information
The Portland Pilots continue West Coast Conference play in the Bay Area this week, beginning with a nationally televised matchup with the San Francisco Dons (7-13, 2-3) on Thursday at 8 p.m. at War Memorial Gymnasium. The game will be aired on ESPNU with Dave Flemming and Krista Blunk calling the action. Portland will then face the Santa Clara Broncos on Saturday at 7 p.m. Thursday’s game can be heard locally on 970 AM (KCMD), while Saturday’s game will be on 750 AM (KXL). All UP games have free audio at portlandpilots.com.
Pilots Briefly
*UP won by the largest margin since the 1999-00 season with a 79-39 win over LMU Thursday
*The 39 points allowed were the fourth lowest in school history
*The Pilots followed with an 80-64 win over Pepperdine
*Leading scorer Nik Raivio missed both games (Achilles’ strain) and is out this week as well
*Junior F Luke Sikma scored a career-high 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in the win vs. LMU
*The Lions were held to just three two-point field goals and 21 percent shooting from the field
*Senior PG T.J. Campbell had a career-high 24 points, nine assists and five steals on his 22nd birthday in the win over Pepperdine
*Junior G Jared Stohl moved into the starting lineup for Raivio and scored 14 on Thursday and 22 on Saturday
*Stohl drilled six 3-pointers vs. Pepperdine to move into second place on the UP career charts (202) and is nine shy of Casey Frandsen’s school record
*Sikma leads the WCC in FG percentage (.604) and has three double-doubles off the bench this year
*Stohl leads the WCC in 3-pointers made (2.9) and is sixth nationally in 3-point percentage (.466)
*Senior F Robin Smeulders is averaging 19.2 points in five WCC games
*Stohl went 10-for-15 from the three-point line vs. Idaho on Dec. 22 with 30 points, becoming the first college player in a decade to score 30 without making a free throw or two-point field goal
*UP also set a team and Chiles Center record for total three-pointers (16) in the win vs. Idaho
*UP cracked the AP Top 25 for the first time in 50 years on Nov. 30
*Portland defeated UCLA (74-47) and No. 16 Minnesota (61-56), before falling to No. 8 West Virginia (84-66) at the 76 Classic in Anaheim over Thanksgiving weekend
*Campbell earned 76 Classic All-Tournament Honors and his second consecutive WCC Co-Player of the Week award after averaging 16.7 points in the three games at the 76 Classic
*Raivio recorded his 1,000th career point on Dec. 2 vs. Portland State
*Portland was picked second in the WCC Preseason Coaches Poll behind Gonzaga
*Campbell and Raivio were named to the 10-player WCC Preseason All-Conference Team
*Raivio was also named an honorable mention mid-major All-America by CollegeInsider.com
*Portland appeared in the inaugural CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) last year, the program’s first postseason appearance since 1996
*The Pilots tied for second in school history last year in total wins (19) and WCC wins (9)
*Portland returns 12 players and all five starters
*2009 WCC Coach of the Year Eric Reveno and his staff remain together and enter their fourth year at the helm of the Pilots (assistants Joel Sobotka, Eric Jackson and Michael Wolf)
*Four high school seniors singed NLI’s with Portland on Nov. 11, 2009: Riley Barker, John Bailey, Ryan Nicholas and Tanner Riley
About San Francisco
The Dons (7-13, 2-3 WCC) lost a heartbreaking 66-65 decision at home to the Santa Clara Broncos in their only game last week. Sophomore G Kwame Vaughn led the way for San Francisco with 18 points, while senior F Dior Lowhorn added 15 points and 10 rebounds. Lowhorn has led the WCC in scoring each of the last two seasons and is averaging a team-high 17.6 points this year. Vaughn has picked it up in league games, averaging a team-high 16.8 points in WCC action. The Dons are shooting 45 percent from the field, but have struggled from three-point range (.315). USF does a good job in the rebounding department, holding a +5.1 margin on the season. Second-year head coach Rex Walters returns four starters and six lettermen from last year’s 11-19 squad that finished seventh in the WCC (3-11). USF leads the all-time series with Portland by a 45-23 margin, but the Pilots won both meetings last year including a 72-67 victory at War Memorial Gymnasium. Prior to those wins, the Dons had won 10 in a row and 14-of-the-last-15 in the series.
