Portland Pilots (1-0) at San Jose State Spartans (1-0)
Date: Sunday, Nov. 10 2019
Time: 2:00 p.m. (PT)
City: San Jose, Calif.
Arena: The Event Center
Video: Mountain West Network
Radio: 910 ESPN-Portland (KMTT)
Live Coverage Links: Video I Audio I Stats

GAME INFORMATION
• Portland will conclude a weekend road trip on Sunday at San Jose State with a 2 p.m. tip-off at The Event Center. That game will be streamed on the Mountain West Network.
• The Pilots dropped a 76-65 game at USC on Friday night.
• All Pilot games are on the radio on 910 ESPN-Portland (KMTT) with Jason Swygard providing the play-by-play. The pre-game show begins 30 minutes prior to tip-off.
• Links for live video, audio and stats for all Portland games can be found at PortlandPilots.com.
• Follow @PilotHoops on Twitter for in-game updates.

LAST GAME
• The Pilots were tied with USC 48-48 early in the second half, but the Trojans pulled away late for a 76-65 victory.
• Graduate transfer G Isaiah White buried six three-pointers and scored a game-high 22 points, while sophomore G Takiula Fahrensohn added 10 points and six rebounds.
• Freshman PG Chase Adams had six points, five rebounds, four assists and four steals.
• The Pilots were without centers Hugh Hogland and Theo Akwuba and USC utilized its size for a 42-27 rebounding advantage and 38-12 margin for points in the paint.

PORTLAND NOTES
• Portland defeated D-III George Fox in an exhibition game last Saturday as junior F Tahirou Diabate led five Pilots in double figures with 20 points and 13 rebounds.
• UP opened the season with an 86-36 win against D-III Willamette on Tuesday. All 11 Pilots that saw action scored, led by junior G Malcolm Porter and junior F Jacob Tryon with 13 points each. Adams sparked an early 23-3 run during which he had four points, four assists and four steals.
• The team returns two starters, nine lettermen and adds five newcomers along with a returning redshirt to the 2019-20 roster.
• Junior G JoJo Walker is a returning two-year starter and is the Pilots' active leader in points, minutes played, steals, free throws made and three-pointers made.
• The Pilots return their entire frontcourt rotation from last year in juniors Tahirou Diabate and Jacob Tryon, along with sophomores Hugh Hogland, Theo Akwuba and Josh Phillips. They combined to average 16.7 points and 12.2 rebounds per game a season ago and were the top five players in field goal percentage on the roster. Phillips is expected to redshirt this season.
• Graduate transfers Isaiah White (Maine) and Lavar Harewood (South Carolina State) are expected to provide much-needed experience and leadership to Portland's young roster. White averaged 13.5 points per game as the second leading scorer for the Black Bears, grabbed 3.5 rebounds per game, and led the team in three-pointers made (54), steals (43) and blocked shots (22). Harewood started 17 games and averaged 8.8 points, 3.3 rebounds, and shot 39 percent from three-point range last year at SCSU.
• Portland also signed junior G Quincy Ferebee out of Southwestern CC.
• In addition to the transfers, Portland welcomes a pair of true freshmen in PG Chase Adams and C Cody Collinsworth, while walk-on F Wyatt Watson is available after redshirting last season.
• The Pilots were picked to finish 10th in the WCC Preseason Head Coaches Poll.
• A total of 12 former Pilots are currently playing professionally overseas, while alum Erik Spoelstra ('92) is the head coach of the Miami HEAT.
• Former NBA All-Star Terry Porter is in his fourth year as the head coach of the Pilots and is one of 11 Division I coaches in the nation to coach his son this season.
 
ABOUT SAN JOSE STATE
• The Spartans (1-0) opened the season with a 79-71 road win at Hofstra on Wednesday. Richard Washington led the way with 23 points and seven rebounds, while Craig Lecesne added 19 points and 11 rebounds.
• San Jose State returns two starters and six lettermen from a team that finished 4-27 and 1-17 in the Mountain West last year.
• Head coach Jean Prioleau is in his third season at the helm after spending the previous seven years as an assistant at Colorado.
• SJSU was picked 11th in the Mountain West Conference Preseason Poll.
• The Pilots and Spartans are 11-11 in the all-time series with Portland winning four straight entering Sunday.

TAKI TAKES ADVANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITY
• Redshirt sophomore G Takiula (Taki) Fahrensohn played limited minutes behind a backcourt logjam of experienced players last season.
• He has seized the opportunity this year and recorded career-highs of 10 points and six rebounds off the bench at USC. Fahrensohn added two steals and a blocked shot in 26 minutes, while often battling defensively against bigger players in the post.
• Fahrensohn started the team's exhibition win versus George Fox and the team's season-opening victory against Willamette.
• The New Zealand native redshirted his freshman year after having knee injury.

INSTANT IMPACT FROM GRAD TRANSFER WHITE
• Graduate transfer Isaiah White (Maine) has scored the most points at the Division I level (705) on the Portland roster after filling the stat in his two seasons with the Black Bears.
• White scored a game-high 22 points and buried six three-pointers against USC on Friday. He added three steals in a solid all-around performance.
• White missed the exhibition game with an ankle injury and debuted with 11 points off the bench in limited minutes against Willamette on Tuesday.

ADAMS NAVIGATING
• Freshman Chase Adams has been a difference maker at point guard out of the gates.
• He earned the start in the team's opener against Willamette and took over the game in the first five minutes.
• Adams sparked a 23-3 run with disruptive on-ball defense, collecting four steals and getting three other defections. He also scored four points and dished out three assists during the spurt.
• He followed with six points, five rebounds, four assists and four steals at USC.
• The 5-foot-7 speedster was a heralded youth basketball star out of Chicago and spent one year at Link Prep (Branson, Mo.) before signing with the Pilots.
• Adams is prominent on social media with 125,000 Instagram followers.

WALKER LEADS THE WAY
• Junior G JoJo Walker returns as a two-year starter expected to take on a leading role.
• He led the team in assists each of the last two seasons and ranked eighth in the WCC with 3.3 assists per game a year ago.
• Walker is the team's leading returning scorer after averaging 11.5 per game last season and enters the 2019-20 season as the Pilots' active leader in points, minutes played, steals, free throws made and three-pointers made.

TRANSFERS BRING EXPERIENCE AND LEADERSHIP
• Portland's two graduate transfers are the only 'seniors' on the 2019-20 roster and embraced the leadership opportunity throughout summer and fall workouts.
• Lavar Harewood (South Carolina State) joins White as a previous D-I starter and posted strong numbers last season. He averaged 8.8 points, 3.3 rebounds, and shot 39 percent from three-point range.
• Both players have had circuitous routes to Portland that touched in Maine. White is from Ellicott City, Md. and spent one season at UNC-Asheville, then a year at junior college before landing in Maine. Harewood, a Brooklyn, N.Y. native, began his college career at Maine and spent one season at a junior college and the last two at SCSU.
 
FEREBEE FILLS THE STAT SHEET
• Southwestern JC transfer Quincy Ferebee was a stat sheet stuffer in each of the Pilots first two games.
• Ferebee had eight points, four rebounds and three assists in the exhibition win over George Fox.
• He contributed four points, six rebounds, five assists and two steals in the opener against Willamette.
• Ferebee joined the Pilots in fall and has acclimated quickly with his unselfish play.

HOGLAND HONES SKILLS IN JAPAN
• Redshirt sophomore C Hugh Hogland has spent time with the Japanese National Team over the past year, just missing out on making the final roster for the Olympics.
• Hogland was born and raised in Hawai'i, but has dual citizenship as his mother, Sanae Watanabe, is Japanese.
• Hogland was also a standout prep volleyball player and member of various USA Volleyball Youth and Junior National Teams before choosing to play college basketball.
• One of the team's best back-to-the-basket scorers, Hogland shot 54.1 percent from the field last season.
• Hogland missed the team's opening two games due to injury.

PORTER PRODUCES
• Redshirt junior G Malcolm Porter got the start and tied for the team lead with 13 points on 4-of-5 shooting in the opening win against Willamette.
• Porter matched his career high in points and added four rebounds, three assists and a steal in 24 minutes.
• The youngest son of head coach Terry Porter, Malcolm played primarily a reserve combo guard role the last two years, but as one of the more experienced players on the roster is expected to have an expanded role this season.

TRYON FINDS HIS STROKE
• Junior F Jacob Tryon showed his versatile scoring abilities on Tuesday by knocking down a three-pointer, making both of his free throw attempts, and scoring from the block and high post while going 5-for-7 from the field.
• Recruited as a stretch big, Tryon shot 50 percent from three-point range in his one year at East Los Angeles JC and started in his debut for the Pilots to open last season, but then missed 10 games with a foot injury.
• After struggling to find his shooting rhythm and opening the year 3-for-18 from the field, he finished the year shooting 44.6 percent overall and 49.4 percent in WCC play.

WATSON MAKES DYNAMIC DEBUT
• Wyatt Watson made the most of his collegiate debut with nine points, three rebounds and a blocked shot in 12 minutes off the bench against Willamette.
• He knocked down a pair of three-pointers, including his first shot attempt late in the first half, and capped the night with a thunderous dunk.
• Watson, a walk-on mechanical engineering student, redshirted last season.

COLLINSWORTH SHOWS HIS RANGE
• Freshman 7-footer Cody Collinsworth showed his range with a corner three-pointer in his Pilot debut against Willamette.
• The Lindale, Texas native scored four points, grabbed two rebounds, and had an assist, steal and blocked shot in the game.
• Collinsworth missed the team's exhibition due to illness.

DIVERSE ROSTER WITH INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR
• Portland's roster features players from a variety of geographic locations as four players are from the state of California, but all other 11 Pilots hail from different states, countries or territories.
• Other Pilots came to The Bluff from Alabama, Hawai'i, Illinois, Mali, Maryland, New Zealand, Oregon, Puerto Rico, New York, Texas and Washington.
• Tahirou Diabate is from Mali, but has lived in France, the Canary Islands, and Japan and speaks five languages: Bambara (native), English, French, Spanish and Japanese.

ALOHA AGAIN!
• Portland will travel back to Hawai'i for a non-conference tournament for the second straight season after competing in the 2018 Rainbow Classic last season.
• The Pilots will take part in the 2019 Diamond Head Classic Dec. 22-25, opening the tournament against Houston.

PILOTS ON THE TV & RADIO
Portland will have an extensive TV package with a minimum of 12 games aired nationally or regionally. All three games at the Diamond Head Classic will air on the ESPN family of networks, while a majority of Portland's WCC games will be televised regionally. Visit PortlandPilots.com for complete schedule details and full TV listings (once finalized). Pilot games will once again have live radio coverage on 910 ESPN-Portland (KMTT) with Jason Swygard calling the action. Each broadcast will feature a 30-minute pregame show and complete post-game coverage. The Terry Porter Show will air also air each Monday night (barring travel/game conflicts) throughout the season from 7-8 PM.