Portland Pilots (14-12, 4-6 WCC) vs. San Diego Toreros (14-12, 7-6 WCC)
Date: Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Portland, Ore.
Arena: Chiles Center
TV: Portland's CW (KRCW)
Video: WCC Network
Radio: 910 ESPN Portland (KMTT)
Live Coverage Links: Video I Audio I Stats
Tickets: PortlandPilots.com/Tickets

Portland Pilots (14-12, 4-6 WCC) vs. Pepperdine Waves (7-21, 1-12 WCC)
Date: Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022
Time: 5 p.m.
Place: Portland, Ore.
Arena: Chiles Center
Video: WCC Network
Radio: 910 ESPN Portland (Stream Only)
Live Coverage Links: Video I Audio I Stats
Tickets: PortlandPilots.com/Tickets

THIS WEEK
• Portland hosts San Diego on Thursday at 7 p.m. and then welcomes Pepperdine on Saturday at 5 p.m. for Senior Night. Thursday is Mascot Night, while Saturday will feature a halftime paper airplane toss with the winner receiving a travel voucher courtesy of AAA of Oregon.
• Tickets are available by visiting PortlandPilots.com/Tickets and are reduced to as low as $5 per ticket for both games.
•Thursday's game will be televised on Portland's CW, while both games will be on the WCC network with Ann Schatz and Jen Mountain on the call.
• All Pilot men's basketball games are on the radio on 910 ESPN Portland (KMTT) with Jason Swygard calling the action. The program begins 30 minutes prior to tip-off and the concludes with a full post-game show.
• Follow @PortlandMBB on Twitter for in-game updates.

ABOUT THE PILOTS
• Portland enters tonight on a three-game win streak after impressive performances in a road win at San Francisco (69-68) and home victory over LMU (86-76) on Saturday. The Pilots picked up an 84-39 win over NAIA program Bushnell on Tuesday in a last-minute scheduled contest after Santa Clara backed out of playing a Monday night game at the Chiles Center.
• Tyler Robertson posted a remarkable 31-point, 11-rebound, 11-assist triple-double in the win over LMU to join teammate Mike Meadows as the only players in program history to record a triple-double – Meadows did so earlier this season against Willamette University. Only 17 players in the nation this season have triple-doubles.
• Robertson's performance earned him WCC Player of the Week honors and will go down as one of the best individual efforts in college basketball history. It marks the first 30-point triple-double by any Division I men's player in more than four years. He also accomplished an unparalleled modern-day feat by logging a 30-point triple-double, making 5-plus threes without a miss (5-for-5) and drilling 10-plus free throws without a miss (10-for-10). No other Division I player in the last 25 years has achieved all three of those marks in an entire career, let alone all in one game
• Kristian Sjolund went for career highs of 23 points and 18 rebounds in the win at San Francisco and is averaging 16.3 points and 10.3 rebounds over the last three games.
• Portland's 14 victories are the most overall wins since the 2014-15 Pilots won 17 games, while the .400 league win percentage is the best since the 2009-10 squad finished at 7-7 (.500).
• Chika Nduka is averaging 10.0 points and 6.4 rebounds during WCC play. Among all true freshmen during league games, he trails only Gonzaga's Chet Holmgren and BYU's Fousseyni Traore in scoring and rebounds.
• Robertson ranks top 10 in the WCC in scoring (7th), rebounds (9th) and assists (5th). Eli Scott (LMU) is the only other player to rank Top 10 in all three categories.
• Portland ranks fourth in the nation in free throw percentage (.801) and are second in free throws made (439). Robertson leads the league and ranks seventh in the nation in free throw percentage (.922).
• Meadows recorded the first triple-double in program history with 15 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists against Willamette on Nov. 11. The Pilots also set a new single game scoring record in the 122-78 victory, eclipsing the 115 scored against St. Martin's in 1978.
• The Pilots broke the program's single game three-pointers made record with 18 against VMI on Dec. 3.
• Shantay Legans was hired last March after he led Eastern Washington to the NCAA Tournament. In his four years as head coach at EWU, Legans compiled the school's best overall (.605) and conference (.726) win percentages.
• Portland returns two players from last year's roster and adds seven transfers and seven true freshmen. The 14 newcomers are tied with UT-Martin for the most in Division I this season.
• The seven incoming transfers are fourth most in the nation, while Portland's returners accounted for less than one percent of the scoring production last season, which is second lowest nationally.
• Portland has a total of seven international players on the roster.
• The Pilots signed NBA Academy and Australian National Teamer Bol Dengdit to a NLI and he will join the program for the 2021-22 season.
• 14 Pilot graduates are currently playing professionally, while alum Erik Spoelstra ('92) has won two NBA Championships as head coach of the Miami HEAT. Ben Sullivan ('07) also won a title last spring as a member of the Milwaukee Bucks coaching staff and is now an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics.
• Portland has partnered with Portland's CW (KRCW-TV) to televise several home events this season while a minimum of 12 Pilot games will be aired on either Portland's CW, ROOT Sports Northwest or Stadium.
 
ABOUT SAN DIEGO
• The Toreros have recorded WCC wins against the Pilots and swept Pacific, Pepperdine and LMU for their seven league wins.
• San Diego posted notable non-conference wins against Nevada, UC Riverside and Cal Poly.
• St. John's transfer Marcellus Earlington leads a balanced attack at 13.8 points per game, while Denver transfer Jace Townsend adds 10.5 per game.
• Pitt transfer Terrell Brown-Soares ranks second in the WCC in blocked shots (2.7) and is fifth in rebounds (6.8).
• Head coach Sam Scholl is in his fourth year at the helm. In his first full season, Scholl led USD to 21 wins and an NIT berth.
 
SCHEDULE SHUFFLE
• Portland's rescheduled game against Santa Clara set for Monday, Feb. 14 was called a non-contest by the WCC office and was not be played.
• The team's home game versus BYU which was postponed has also been called a non-contest and will not be rescheduled.
• Portland moved its home game against San Francisco from Jan. 21 to Saturday, Feb. 5. The Pilots were previously scheduled to play at USF on that night, but the Dons agreed to move that game to Tuesday, Feb. 8 in San Francisco.

GAMES IN BUNCHES
• Portland played nine games in the first 19 days of the season which began on Nov. 9 at Arizona State.
• The Pilots then took a 10-day break after hosting VMI on Dec. 3 for Finals Week on campus.
• After the team's run of five games in ten days ending at UC Davis on Dec. 22, the team was off for 22 more days due to the Holiday Break and the first three games of the league season being postponed due to COVID issues.
• The 41 days between home games (Dec. 22 - Jan. 27) matches the third largest gap this season among all teams in the nation (Cal Poly 59 days, Manhattan 42, Delaware 41).
 
EXPERIENCED 'YOUTH'
• Portland's roster features just one upperclassman in terms of eligibility remaining: graduate transfer Jack Perry, who suffered a season ending injury vs. Portland State on Nov. 23.
• Portland's six other transfers all have three years of eligibility remaining including UNLV graduate transfer Moses Wood. The 6-8 forward began his career at Tulane and transferred to the Runnin' Rebels after a coaching change. He redshirted one of his two years at UNLV, which also had a coaching change this offseason, so Wood joins the Pilots with three years left to play.
• Chris Austin, Mike Meadows and Kristian Sjolund also spent three years at their previous schools, but each utilized redshirt seasons and got an extra year due to COVID.
 
COACHING CONTINUITY
• In addition to the three Eastern Washington players that transferred to Portland with Coach Legans, three staff members also made the move. Assistant coaches Bobby Suarez and T.J. Lipold, as well as video coordinator Thomas Moore remained with Legans during his transition to the Rose City.
• Legans' staff is one of the youngest in the nation as all three assistant coaches are 33 or younger.
 
WCC PROJECTED TO GET FOUR NCAA BIDS
• Four WCC teams are ranked in the Top 55 of the latest NCAA Net Rankings: No. 1 Gonzaga, No. 22 Saint Mary's, No. 32 San Francisco and No. 53 BYU.
• KenPom.com has those four teams all in the top 53, while ESPN's Joe Lunardi projects the WCC to have four NCAA Tournament representatives, which would be a league record.
 
PILOTS TO CO-HOST & COMPETE IN PHIL KNIGHT INVITATIONAL NEXT YEAR
• Portland will co-host and participate in one of college basketball's biggest events when the Phil Knight Invitational (PKI) and Phil Knight Legacy come to the Rose City over the 2022 Thanksgiving weekend. Born out of the success of the PK80 events five years ago, the weekend will feature 24 total teams competing in four different brackets.
• Portland will be in the PKI bracket along with Alabama, Iowa State, Michigan State, North Carolina, Oregon, UConn and Villanova.
• The Chiles Center at University of Portland, Rose Quarter's Moda Center and Veterans Memorial Coliseum will host the games with the ESPN family of networks airing all games.

TICKET, VACCINATION & TESTING INFORMATION FOR HOME GAMES
We are thrilled to welcome fans back to the Chiles Center for Portland Pilots basketball games. Season tickets, flex packs and single-game offerings are available now by visiting PortlandPilots.com/Tickets or calling the Pilot Box Office at (503) 943-GOUP. All guests ages 12 and up must provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or provide proof of either a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the event or a negative lab-based rapid test taken within 48 hours of the event. At-home tests will not be accepted. Kids under age 12 can come to events without proof of vaccination or proof of a negative test. Masks are required for all guests attending Portland Athletics events.