Portland Pilots (7-15, 1-6 WCC) at Pacific Tigers (6-16, 0-7 WCC)
Date: Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Stockton, Calif.
Arena: Spanos Center
TV: ESPN+
Radio: 910 ESPN Portland (KMTT)
Live Coverage Links: Video I Audio I Stats

Portland Pilots (7-15, 1-6 WCC) vs. Pepperdine Waves (9-14, 2-6 WCC)
Date: Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024
Time: 5 p.m.
Place: Portland, Ore.
Arena: Chiles Center
TV: ESPN+
Radio: 910 ESPN Portland (KMTT)
Live Coverage Links: Video I Audio I Stats
Tickets: PortlandPilots.com/Tickets

THIS WEEK
• The Pilots (7-15, 1-6 WCC) will look to complete the season sweep of the Pacific Tigers (6-16, 0-7) with a road win on Thursday at 7 p.m. at Spanos Center.
• The Pilots will then return home to host the Pepperdine Waves (9-14, 2-6) on Saturday at 5 p.m. at Chiles Center.
 
GAME COVERAGE
• All Portland WCC games will be aired live on ESPN+.
• Radio for all Portland men's basketball games is on 910 ESPN Portland (KMTT) with Jason Swygard and Joel Sobotka calling the action. Pre-game coverage begins 30 minutes prior to tip-off and ends with a 30-minute post-game show.
featuring stats, highlights and interviews.

LAST GAME: SAN FRANCISCO 76, PILOTS 64 (Jan. 27 at UP)
• Vukasin Masic scored 22 points and Juanse Gorosito added a season high 21 points as the shorthanded were missing starting F Yuto Yamanouchi-Williams (hip).
• Masic tacked on eight rebounds, four assists, and two steals, while Tyler Robertson also helped out with 12 points, five assists and three steals.
• Portland out-rebounded San Francisco 43-38 in Saturday's game, led by 13 boards from Bol Dengdit.
• USF closed the first half with a 9-0 run for a 40-29 lead. The Pilots got within seven early in the second half, but the Dons held on down the stretch.
• The Pilots shot well from three point range, knocking down 12 of 30 long range attempts including 7-for-11 from Gorosito.
• USF forced 21 Pilot turnovers and gained a 22-10 edge in points off turnovers and racked up a 23-7 edge in fast break points.
 
ABOUT THE PILOTS
• Sophomore F Yuto Yamanouchi-Williams, who was pulled off of redshirt and made his Pilot debut with 12 points and 10 rebounds in the league opener vs. Pacific on Jan. 6, missed the USF game (hip).  Yamanouchi-Williams is averaging 11.7 points and 6.2 rebounds and has reached double figures in four of the six games he has played. He is day-to-day with the hip injury.
• Senior captain Tyler Robertson, a two-time All-WCC guard, erupted for a season-high 34 points against Santa Clara on Jan. 20, one off of his career-high. The effort matched the single-game high for all WCC players this season. Robertson leads the Pilots and ranks second in the WCC in scoring (16.6) and minutes per game (34.5), and fourth in assists (3.9) and FG percentage (.478).
• Freshman G Tyler Harris, who has earned WCC Freshman of the Week honors three times this season, returned vs. LMU on Jan. 25 after missing the previous two games (ankle). Harris ranks seventh nationally among freshmen in rebounds (7.4), while his four double-doubles are tied for fifth best in the country for freshmen. He also ranks fifth in the WCC in rebounding and blocked shots per game (0.9).
• 2023 All-WCC Freshman Team guard Juanse Gorosito set a UP freshman record for three-pointers made (63) last year and found his stroke at the Diamond Head Classic in Hawaii by burying four threes against UMass and five versus Temple. He went 7-for-11 Saturday vs. USF for a career high 21 points.
• The Pilots welcomed the return of Chris Austin to the active roster this season. Austin, who averaged 14.4 points for the Pilots two seasons ago, took a medical redshirt last year after breaking his leg in the final game of the 2021-22 season.
• Portland has integrated 2022-23 redshirts Vukasin Masic (Maine transfer) and freshmen Bol Dengdit to the rotation. Masic is averaging 12.6 points per game, while Dengdit has scored a season high 12 points twice in the last nine games and earned his first career start at Santa Clara (1/20).
• Yamanouchi-Williams, a sophomore transfer from Lamar, made 24 starts last year and averaged 6.9 points and a team-high 7.1 rebounds per game.
• Portland welcomes four freshmen to the 2023-24 roster. G Tyler Harris (Hayward, Calif.) led Granada HS to the 2023 CIF NorCal Division I championship and a runner-up finish at the State Division I Boys Championship with a 17-point and 10-rebound effort in the title game loss to Notre Dame. G Vincent Delano (Phoenix, Ariz.) played for nationally recognized Arizona Compass Prep as a senior. F Cyprian Hyde (Oceanside, Calif.) Earned All-North County Coastal First Team honors as a senior after leading the team to the second round of the 2023 CIF San Diego Section Division II Championships. G Jude Harris (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) was a First Team All-Camino Real League in 2023 after averaging 15 points, eight rebounds and five assists per game. Delano, Hyde and Jude Harris are redshirting the 2023-24 season.
• The Pilots are represented by seven different countries, tied for third in the nation behind Arizona and Hawaii. Portland players hail from the United States (10), Australia (2), Argentina (1), Japan (1), Montenegro (1), Netherlands (1) and Serbia (1).
 
ROBERTSON PILES UP THE STATS
• Tyler Robertson has scored in double figures in all 22 games this year, including a UP and WCC season-high 34 on Saturday at Santa Clara.
• Robertson also had 28 points at Portland State on Nov. 28, scored his 1,000th point as a Pilot in the opener vs. Long Beach State, passed the 1,500-point mark for his career Dec. 16 versus Grand Canyon and ranks 57th among all active players in career scoring (1,668).
• Robertson also has 578 career rebounds and 480 total assists making him one of just four players nationally with career totals of at least 1,500 points, 550 rebounds and 450 assists: Tristen Newton (UConn), Andrew Taylor (Miss. State) and Baylor Scheierman (Creighton)
• Last season, Robertson and Jalen Pickett (Penn State) were the only Division I players to average at least 15 points, 5.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game. Robertson also led the WCC in assists, assists per game and free throws made (163).
• Robertson is Top 15 on the UP career charts in assists per game (4.6, 5th), assists (397, 6th), free throws made (346, 6th), scoring average (15.7, eighth), free throw percentage (.822, 11th), total points (1,354, 10th) and threes made (144, t-9th). 

GOROSITO GETS GOING
• One of the top three-point shooters in the WCC a season ago, Juanse Gorosito struggled to find his stroke early in the year, but came on strong in Portland's appearance at the Diamond Head Classic in Hawaii over Christmas weekend drilling 4-of-9 threes against UMass and then 5-of-11 from downtown against Temple. He finished with 16 points, six rebounds and six assists against Temple.
• Gorosito erupted for a career high 21 points on 7 of 11 three-point shooting against San Francisco on Saturday.
• The Argentina native has started six of the last eight games and is averaging 13.2 points in those starts.

YUTO ACTIVATED AND MAKING AN IMPACT
• Yuto Yamanouchi-Williams came off of redshirt status to join the active roster for the start of WCC play after Alimamy Koroma was deemed academically ineligible.
• He wasted no time in making an impact by recording a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds in his debut against Pacific.
• Yamanouchi-Williams has started all six WCC games and is third on the team in scoring average (11.7) and second in rebounding (6.2).

HARRIS PUTTING UP BIG NUMBERS
• Tyler Harris has been one of the most productive freshmen in the nation this year. He ranks sixth nationally in rebounds per game (7.3), while his four double-doubles are tied for fifth best.
• His double-double of 17 points, 12 rebounds against Long Beach St. made him the first freshman in UP history to debut with a double-double. He also is the first true freshman to start a season-opener in Shantay Legans' seven years as a head coach.
• Harris also recorded double-doubles against UC Riverside (22 pts, 12 rebs), Wyoming (11 pts, 10 rebs) and Grand Canyon (15 pts, 10 rebs) and has three times been named the WCC Freshman of the Week.

MASIC MAGIC
• Vukasin Masic has shown flashes of brilliance in his return to action this season after being denied an immediate eligibility waiver last year by the NCAA.
• Masic erupted for a career high 32 points in Portland's Dec. 9 road win at North Dakota and has five, 20-plus point games.
• In his Pilot debut, Masic scored 22 of his 25 points in second half to lead the team to a 78-73 season-opening win versus Long Beach State. His 25 points were the most ever scored by a Portland player in their debut.

SETTING PROGRAM RECORDS
• In his first two seasons leading the Pilots, head coach Shantay Legans has already began rewriting the program record books.
• The Pilots have scored the most single-season points in school history each of the last two years. Portland scored 2,524 points in his inaugural 2021-22 season and then broke that record with 2,566 total points last year.
• The 2021-22 team set a new free throw percentage record (.791), while last year's 317 three-pointers made shattered the previous record of 289 (2016-17).
• The Pilots set a single game scoring record in a 122-78 victory over Willamette on Nov. 11, 2021, eclipsing the 115 scored against St. Martin's in 1978.
• Portland also broke the program's single game three-pointers made twice, most recently with 19 versus San Diego at the 2023 WCC Tournament, which also was a tournament record.
• Individually, Robertson broke the school record for free throws made when he converted 22-of-24 against Portland State on Nov. 11, 2022, eclipsing a record held by Jim Winters (20-of-23) which dated back to a matchup with Seattle U on Feb. 12, 1956. He also set the program single-game assists record with 15 against New Orleans on Dec. 10, 2022.
• Mike Meadows and Robertson also became the first Pilots to ever record triple-doubles. Meadows had one against Willamette, while Robertson posted a 31-point, 11-rebound, 11-assist triple-double in a win over LMU. He added another triple-double last year with 12 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists against Multnomah.
 
ABOUT PACIFIC
• The Tigers (6-16, 0-7 WCC) gave Gonzaga all they could handle on Saturday in an 82-73 home loss.
• Pacific has notable non-league wins against Cal and Lamar, with common Portland opponent losses to Nevada and North Dakota.
• Judson Martindale leads a balanced offensive attack at 10.1 points per game.
• Head Coach Leonard Perry is in his third year at the helm.

PORTLAND-PACIFIC SERIES DETAILS
Series Information: Pacific leads 33-16
H / A / N: 11-11 / 4-22 / 1-0
Streak: W1
Last 5 /10: 4-1/ 4-6
Last Meeting: Pilots 78, Pacific 64 (Jan. 6, 2024 at Portland)
 
WE'RE RIVERBOAT PILOTS, NOT AIRPLANE PILOTS!
• Though the original nickname that students chose in a 1935 contest resulted in "Chinooks" (after the Native American tribe that inhabited the area, and the largest of the salmon species in the Willamette River), the "Pilots" was chosen by presidential fiat. From that day forward, The Bluff had a new mascot, and he was Wally Pilot.
• When the University changed its name from Columbia University (its earliest sports teams were known as the Cliff dwellers or the Columbias), to the University of Portland in 1935, the name and University had already begun to adapt a more "nautical motif," suitable for a campus site overlooking the Willamette River. At the same time, the Pilot athletic teams became associated with Wally (a stylized riverboat pilot), and the pilot's wheel became the logical logo.
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