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Game Information
The Portland Pilots will look for the program’s second weekend road sweep of Bay Area schools in West Coast Conference history on Saturday when they face the Santa Clara Broncos. Following Portland’s 74-58 win at San Francisco on Thursday, the Pilots (13-7, 4-2) and Broncos (9-14, 1-5) will meet Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Leavey Center. The game can be heard live on 750 AM (KXL) with a 30-minute pregame show, which will also be streamed live on portlandpilots.com. The Broncos led No. 8 Gonzaga much of the game on Thursday before losing by a 71-64 margin.
Pilots Briefly
*Junior G Jared Stohl scored a game-high 22 points in Thursday’s win at USF
*Stohl drilled 6-of-12 three-pointers and is three shy of Casey Frandsen’s school record of 211
*Stohl also grabbed a career-high five steals in the victory
*Senior PG T.J. Campbell added 19 points for the Pilots on only eight shot attempts
*Junior F Luke Sikma grabbed a game-high 14 rebounds off the bench
*Leading scorer Nik Raivio missed his third straight game (Achilles’ strain) and will be out vs. SCU as well
*Stohl replaced Raivio in the starting lineup and is averaging 19.3 points in his absence
*UP has now won three in a row, while its only two WCC losses came by a combined eight points
*The only UP weekend sweep of Bay Area schools in 33 years came during the 2000-01 season
*The Pilots swept LMU (79-39) and Pepperdine (80-64) last weekend at home
*LMU was held to just three two-point field goals and 21 percent shooting from the field
*Sikma leads the WCC in FG percentage (.588) and is third in rebounding (7.8)
*Stohl leads the WCC in 3-pointers made (3.1) and is fifth nationally in 3-point percentage (.469)
*Senior F Robin Smeulders is averaging 17.5 points in 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 Santa Clara
The Broncos (9-14, 1-5 WCC) gave the No. 8 Gonzaga Bulldogs all they could handle on Thursday, leading by as much 14 points in the second half before going scoreless in the final five minutes and losing by a 71-64 margin. Santa Clara carried the momentum from last week’s 66-65 win at San Francisco into the game with the Bulldogs. SCU lost leading scorer Kevin Foster (19.8 ppg) for the rest of the season with a knee injury after only six games and has one of the youngest rosters in the league. Sophomore F Marc Trasolini paces the Broncos at 14.1 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. Freshman G Robert Smith adds 12.0 points per contest. SCU averages 65.8 points per game and shoots 41.3 percent from the field and 30.1 percent from the three-point line. Third-year head coach Kerry Keating returns two starters and eight lettermen from last year’s team that finished 16-17 overall and 7-7 in the WCC (4th place). The Broncos lead the all-time series over Portland by a 54-24 margin and the teams each won at home last year. SCU defeated the Pilots at the Leavey Center in the regular season finale 67-65 in overtime.
