Portland Pilots (11-11, 2-5 WCC) vs. San Francisco Dons (18-5, 5-3 WCC)
Date: Saturday, Feb. 5 2022
Time: 5 p.m.
Place: Portland, Ore.
Arena: Chiles Center
TV: Portland's CW (KRCW-TV)
Video: WCC Network
Radio: 910 ESPN Portland (KMTT)
Tickets: PortlandPilots.com/Tickets
Live Coverage Links: Video I Audio I Stats

THIS WEEK
• Portland is back at the Chiles Center on Saturday for another men's and women's basketball doubleheader on The Bluff. The women will host Loyola Marymount at 2 p.m. and the men welcome San Francisco at 5 p.m. Both games will be televised on Portland's CW (KRCW) with Bryan Sleik and Joel Sobotka on the call.
• All Pilot men's basketball games are on the radio on 910 ESPN Portland (KMTT) with Jason Swygard and Xavier Hallinan calling the action. The program begins 30 minutes prior to tip-off and the concludes with a full post-game show.
• Live coverage links for Portland games can be found at PortlandPilots.com.
• Follow @PortlandMBB on Twitter for in-game updates.
• Tickets are available by visiting PortlandPilots.com/Tickets.

ABOUT THE PILOTS
• Portland has had a challenging opening to the WCC schedule with five road games already. The Pilots dropped a 75-54 home contest to Saint Mary's on Thursday. Tyler Robertson paced the Pilots with 15 points, seven rebounds, three assists and three steals. Mike Meadows was the only other Portland player to reach double figures and finished with 10 points, while Chika Nduka grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds.
• Portland's 11 overall wins match the program's most since 2017, while the nine non-league wins are the most since the 2010-11 team went 13-3 out of conference.
• Portland picked up an 82-63 win at Pepperdine on Jan. 15 which marked the program's first WCC road win since Jan. 20, 2018. The 19-point margin was also the largest league road win since a 74-54 victory at Santa Clara on Feb. 7, 2015.
• Chika Nduka is averaging 11.0 points and 7.0 rebounds while shooting 54 percent from the field in WCC play. Among all true freshmen during league games, he trails only Gonzaga's Chet Holmgren in scoring and ranks third behind Holmgren and BYU's Fousseyni Traore in rebounds.
• Tyler Robertson ranks top 10 in the WCC in scoring (9th), rebounds (10th) and assists (5th). Eli Scott (LMU) is the only other player to rank Top 10 in all three categories.
• Portland and Gonzaga are the only WCC programs with five players averaging double figures during league play.
• Portland ranks third in the nation in free throw percentage (.805) and are eighth in free throws made (356). Meadows is No. 2 in the league and ranks eighth in the nation in FT percentage (.920), while Robertson is third in the conference and 17th nationally (.900).
• Meadows leads the WCC in minutes per game (36.4) and Robertson is second (35.8). They both rank Top 30 nationally for minutes per game as well.
• Mike 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.
• Head coach 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 best overall (.605) and conference (.726) winning percentages in school history.
• 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 U-19 National Teamer Bol Dengdit to a NLI and he will join the program for the 2021-22 season.
• A total of 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 FRANCISCO
• The Dons are ranked No. 27 in KenPom, No. 33 in the latest NCAA NET Rankings, and projected as an NCAA Tournament at-large bid according to ESPN's latest Bracketology
• San Francisco's three WCC losses have come against Gonzaga, BYU and Saint Mary's, while the Dons are coming off back-to-back wins against Santa Clara and BYU.
• Jamaree Bouyea leads three USF players averaging double figures at 18.0 points per game, while Yauhen Massalski leads the WCC in rebounding (9.1).
• San Francisco leads the WCC and ranks Top 20 nationally in both three-pointers made and attempted.