Portland Pilots (7-15, 2-7 WCC) at LMU Lions (12-8, 4-4 WCC)
Date: Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025
Time: 7 p.m. (PT)
Place: Los Angeles, Calif.
Arena: Gersten Pavilion
TV: ESPN+
Radio: 910 ESPN Portland
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Portland Pilots (7-15, 2-7 WCC) at Pepperdine Waves (8-13, 2-6 WCC)
Date: Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025
Time: 7 p.m. (PT)
Place: Malibu, Calif.
Arena: Firestone Fieldhouse
TV: ESPN+
Radio: 910 ESPN Portland
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THIS WEEK
• The Pilots (7-15, 2-7 WCC) head to Southern California for a pair of WCC matchups.
• Portland visits LMU (12-8, 4-4) on Thursday and then Pepperdine (8-13, 2-6) on Saturday. Both games tip-off at 7 p.m.
 
GAME COVERAGE
• All West Coast Conference games are aired live on ESPN+.
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LAST TIME OUT: Gonzaga 105, Pilots 62 (Jan. 25, 2025 @Portland)
• Max Mackinnon, Chris Austin, and Austin Rapp combined to score 51 of Portland's 62 total points, but the Pilots fell to the Bulldogs.
• Mackinnon led Portland with 18 points on 7-of-15 shooting. Austin added 17 points and four rebounds, while Rapp contributed 16 points, including 4-of-7 from three-point range.
• Gonzaga shot a blistering 63 percent from the field including a perfect 10-for-10 from Clackamas, Ore. native Ben Gregg who finished with a game-high 24 points. The Pilots were held to 35 percent overall.
• Portland fell behind 26-15 midway through the first half before using an 8-0 run to pull within three. The Pilots had a chance to tie but missed a three-pointer and then Gonzaga closed the half on a 23-6 run for a 49-29 halftime lead. The margin continued to grow down the stretch.
 
PILOTS SWEEP WEEKLY AWARDS
• Max Mackinnon garnered Heluva Good Dip WCC Player of the Week honors and teammate Austin Rapp earned his third WCC Freshman of the Week award, the league office announced on Monday.
• Mackinnon was also named one of five USBWA National Players of the Week.
• Mackinnon matched a school record of 43 points in a game and averaged 30.5 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.5 assists while shooting 50 percent from the field, 60 percent from three-point range and 83 percent at the foul line in two games.
• Rapp averaged 16.5 points and 5.5 rebounds over the two games. He finished with 17 points, eight rebounds, three assists a steal and blocked shot in the win against San Diego and had 16 points, including 4-of-7 from three-point range, to go with three rebounds an assist and blocked shot against Gonzaga.

MACKINNON TO THE MAX
• Elon junior transfer Max Mackinnon's performance against San Diego Thursday will go down as one of the best individual efforts in program history. He matched the previous school record of 43 points set by UP Hall of Famer Matt Houle against San Francisco on Feb. 13, 1992. Mackinnon finished 9-for-17 from the field, drilled a career-best 7-of-9 three-pointers, and converted 18-of-22 free throws in the contest. He also passed the 1,000-point mark for his career, needing 32 points entering the game.
• The Brisbane, Australia native made his first 11 free throws to extend his streak of consecutive makes to 40 before having the streak broken late in regulation.
• Mackinnon has delivered during WCC play averaging 19.3 points during conference games, good for third in the league. His 50.9 percent from the field is seventh in WCC contests, while he is second in free throw percentage (.922).
• Mackinnon erupted for a then-career high 28 points at San Francisco on Jan. 9. He was 11-for-15 from the field and made all four of his free throw attempts. He also went for 22 points, five rebounds and three assists at home vs. Washington State.
• Mackinnon was the 2022 Coastal Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year at Elon where he averaged 11.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists as a freshman and followed with 12.1 points, 4.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists last season. Prior to college, Mackinnon helped Queensland win back-to-back Gold Medals at the U-20 Australian Championships.
 
RAPP RACKING UP THE NUMBERS
• Freshman F Austin Rapp is averaging team-highs of 14.0 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, both tops among all freshmen in the WCC. He also leads the entire WCC in three-pointers made per game (2.6), is second in three-point percentage (.364), third in FT percentage (.893) and fifth in blocks per game (1.2).
• Among freshmen nationally, Rapp leads the nation in free throw percentage and is second in three-point percentage and three's made (55), 13th in blocked shots (26), 16th in rebounding and 20th in scoring.
• Rapp recorded his first career double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds against Kansas City on Dec. 10 and added another with 10 points and 10 boards at Washington State. He has scored 20-plus points three times this year.
•The Melbourne, Australia native is No. 3 on the UP Freshman charts for threes made (55) trailing only Juanse Gorosito (61, 2022-23) and Jared Stohl (58, 2007-08).
 
AUSTIN BREAKS OUT
• Graduate G Chris Austin has come up big recently for the Pilots. He scored a season high 23 points on 8-of-11 shooting, including 4-for-5 from three-point range at Washington State and followed with 20 points, five rebounds and five assists against San Diego last Thursday. Austin has scored 20 or more points three times in the last nine games.
• He recorded a game-high 20 points in the win over Lafayette on Dec. 21. It was his first 20-point game since the final game of the 2022 season against Southern Utah when he scored 21 points before going down with a broken leg in the game. Austin was sidelined for the entire 2022-23 season while doing rehab on his knee and leg.
• The Pasadena, Calif. native has navigated injuries throughout his seven total years of college athletics, three at Fordham and the last four at UP. A thumb injury ended his freshman season early.
 
DENGDIT DOING WORK
• RS sophomore F Bol Dengdit erupted for a career high 21 points and matched his career best with 13 rebounds in Portland win against Pacific on Jan. 16.
• Dengdit was an efficient 8-for-11 from the field and grabbed six offensive rebounds. He also had three assists a steal and blocked shot. He followed with nine points and seven boards at Washington State.
• The Melbourne, Australia native missed some early season games due to injury but is building on his stellar 2024 WCC campaign where he averaged 9.3 points and 7.1 rebounds during league play. He reached double figures in scoring in nine of the team's last 11 games and added four double-doubles.
 
DELANO DELIVERING
• Redshirt freshman PG Vincent Delano has started the team's last 12 games.
• Delano has scored in double figures six times this season, including season highs of 18 points, six rebounds and five assists in a win against Denver on Dec. 1.
• The speedy guard also was good at Oregon with 12 points and five rebounds as the Pilots pushed Oregon to overtime on the road.
• Delano is averaging 6.6 points per game and is leading the team with 26 steals.
 
FRESHMEN PHENOMS
• The Pilots regularly have had four freshmen on the court at the same time often throughout the season and gotten consistent production from the group.
• Between the four active true freshmen and three redshirt freshmen on the roster, the group has accounted for 42 percent of Portland's total scoring this year. Austin Rapp is Portland's leading scorer (14.0), while redshirt freshman PG Vincent Delano and freshman G Mikah Ballew add 6.6 and 5.9 points per game, respectively.
• Rapp has been a regular among Australian Youth National Teams and led Victoria to the Under-20 Australian National Championship with 32 points and 13 rebounds in the title game, including the buzzer-beating game-winning shot.
• Delano moved into the starting lineup for the last 12 games, while Ballew has played quality crunch time minutes all season.
• Todd Jones has started eight games and contributing 3.0 points and 2.9 rebounds per outing. Jones is a three-star prospect that helped Isidore Newman High School win three consecutive Louisiana State Championships. The high-flying Jones was the 2024 District MVP and four-time District Defensive Player of the Year.
• RS freshman Kelson Gebbers also moved into the rotation the last ten games.
 
AUSSIE CONNECTIONS
• Head Coach Shantay Legans and Portland basketball has had great success with players from Australia and that trend continues this season. Recent graduate Tyler Robertson, a three-time All-WCC selection, is close family friends with Austin Rapp. Rapp, Max Mackinnon, Bol Dengdit and Carlin Briggs make four Aussies on the 2024-25 roster.
 
MASIC MAKING WAVES
• Vukasin Masic is Portland's top returning scorer after averaging 12.5 points and 4.2 rebounds per game last season and is adding 8.7 points per game this year, but missed the last four games (back) and is day-to-day.
• He scored 24 points on 9-of-13 shooting against UCSB in his season debut. Masic then scored a season high 27 points in the win against Denver on Dec. 1.
• Masic sat out the 2022-23 season after the NCAA denied an immediate eligibility waiver. In his Pilot debut last year, Masic scored 25 points to lead the team to a 78-73 season-opening win ever eventual NCAA Tournament participant Long Beach State. His 25 points were the most ever scored by a Portland player in their debut. Masic added a career high 32 points in a road win at North Dakota.
 
SETTING PROGRAM RECORDS
• In his three years leading UP, Shantay Legans is already rewriting the program record books. The Pilots have the two highest single-season scoring records in school history. Portland scored 2,524 points in his inaugural 2021-22 season and then broke that record with 2,566 total points the following season. The 2021-22 team also established a new free throw percentage record (.791), while the 317 three-pointers made in 2022-23 shattered the previous record of 289 (2016-17).
• The Pilots set the game scoring record in a 122-78 win over Willamette (11/11/21), eclipsing the 115 scored vs St. Martin's in 1978. Portland also broke the program's single game three-pointers made record with 18 against VMI (12/3/21).
• Tyler Robertson broke the school record for free throws made when he converted 22-of-24 against Portland State (11/11/22), eclipsing a record held by Jim Winters (20-of-23) which dated back to a matchup with Seattle U (2/12/56). He also set the program single-game assist record with 15 against New Orleans (12/10/22).
• Mike Meadows and Robertson became the first Pilots to record triple-doubles. Meadows had one against Willamette (11/11/21), while Robertson posted a 31-point, 11-rebound, 11-assist stat line in a win over LMU (2/12/22).
 
ABOUT LMU
• The Lions (12-8, 4-4 WCC) have notable wins against Belmont (77-63), Wyoming (73-70), Nevada (68-64), UC Santa Barbara (60-58), Oregon State (82-61) and Santa Clara (57-54). WCC losses have come against Washington State (73-59), San Francisco (70-55), Gonzaga (96-68) and Saint Mary's (81-56).
• Caleb Stone-Carrawell leads four Lions in double figures at 13.6 points per game, while Pepperdine transfer Jevon Porter adds 13.0 points and 8.9 rebounds.
• Head coach Stan Johnson is in his fifth year at the helm.
 
PORTLAND-LMU SERIES DETAILS
Series: LMU leads 60-53; H / A / N: 33-21 / 17-32 / 3-7
Streak: W2
Last Meeting: Pilots 78, LMU 70 (Mar. 8, 2024 at WCC Tourney)
 
ABOUT PEPPERDINE
• The Waves (8-13, 2-6 WCC) have notable non league wins against New Mexico State (82-70) and UC Davis (85-46) as well as two WCC victories over Pacific (87-70 & 60-44). Six of Pepperdine's sive league losses have been by double digits.
• San Francisco transfer Stefan Todorovic (18.7) and Pacific transfer Moe Odum (11.9) lead the way for the Waves.
• Head coach Ed Schilling is in his first year after coming over from Grand Canyon as an assistant coach.
 
PORTLAND-PEPPERDINE SERIES DETAILS
Series: PEP leads 67-44; H / A / N: 26-28 / 15-35 / 2-5
Streak: L1
Last Meeting: Pepperdine 91, Pilots 70 (Feb. 17, 2024 at Pepperdine)

POOH JETER INDUCTED IN UP HALL OF FAME
• University of Portland inducted nine new members to its Athletics Hall of Fame on September 27 including basketball legend Eugene "Pooh" Jeter.
• Jeter is No. 2 on the Portland career scoring charts (1,708) and also ranks in the top five all-time in field goals made (550), three-pointers (200), free throws (408), free throw percentage (.846) and is eighth in total assists (346).
• He garnered All-WCC First Team honors in 2004 and 2006 and was honorable mention all-league in 2005. He also led Portland to a 72-68 road upset against Gonzaga at the Kennel in 2003 with a team-high 18 points as a freshman.
• Following his time on The Bluff, Jeter enjoyed a remarkable professional career that spanned 18 seasons including six different countries and one year with the NBA's Sacramento Kings. Following his retirement from pro basketball in 2023, Jeter joined the Portland Trail Blazers where he still serves as a player development coach and Assistant General Manager for the Rip City Remix.

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