Portland Pilots (1-0, 0-0 WCC) vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff Golden Lions (0-1, 0-0 SWAC)
Date: Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Portland, Ore.
Arena: Chiles Center
TV: ESPN+
Radio: PortlandPilots.com
Live Coverage Links: Video I Audio I Stats
Tickets: PortlandPilots.com/Tickets

Portland Pilots (1-0, 0-0 WCC) vs. UC Davis Aggies (2-0, 0-0 Big West)
Date: Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025
Time: 2 p.m.
Place: Portland, Ore.
Arena: Chiles Center
TV: KUNP-TV/ESPN+
Radio: PortlandPilots.com
Live Coverage Links: Video I Audio I Stats
Tickets: PortlandPilots.com/Tickets

THIS WEEK
• The Pilots opened the 2025-26 regular season with a 120-83 win against Willamette University on Monday.
• Portland continues its three-game opening homestand against Arkansas Pine Bluff on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. following a 4 p.m. UP volleyball match at Chiles Center.
• The Pilots then welcome UC Davis on Sunday with a 2 p.m. tip-off.
 
GAME COVERAGE
• All Portland home games will be aired live on ESPN+ with Bryan Sleik and Jennifer Mountain on the call.
• Sunday's game versus UC Davis will also be televised locally on KUNP-TV.
• Radio for all Portland men's and women's basketball home games – and select road games – will be streamed on PortlandPilots.com with Jason Swygard calling the action. Pre-game coverage begins 20 minutes prior to tip-off and ends with a 15-minute post-game show.
• Live coverage links for Portland games can be found at PortlandPilots.com.
• Follow @PortlandMBB on X and Instagram for the latest team content.

LAST TIME OUT: Portland 120, Willamette 83
• Cameron Williams collected 25 points and Mikah Ballew added 20 as Portland beat the Bearcats in Monday's season opener at Chiles Center.
• Williams tacked on eight rebounds and two steals, while freshman point guard Joel Foxwell also helped out with 18 points, five assists and four steals. Garrett Nuckolls added nine points, 10 rebounds and five assists, while freshman Timo George contributed 16 points and six rebounds in just 18 minutes.
• After falling behind 11-8, Portland went on a 12-0 run with 13:52 left in the first half, culminating in a bucket from Williams, to take a 20-11 lead. Portland pushed the margin to 14 points on two occasions before the Bearcats drilled four consecutive three-pointers in the final two minutes to cut the deficit to 63-56 at the half.
•  Following intermission, Portland picked up the defensive pressure and pulled away down the stretch. Williams converted a three-point play to make it 75-63 and the Pilots used a 10-0 run to go up 82-63. The Bearcats got no closer than a 16-point deficit the rest of the way as Portland limited Willamette to 1 for 19 from beyond the arc after halftime.
• The Pilots got a boost from the bench in the period, as non-starters accounted for 30 of its 57 total points.

BUILDING A WINNING ROSTER
• The Portland coaching staff focused on building the 2025-26 roster with experienced players that came with winning pedigrees. All five of Portland's Division I transfers fit the bill.
• Junior transfers Garrett Nuckolls and Cameron Williams were the top two scorers for Trinity Valley JC, which won the JUCO Division I national title last year.
• Senior PG Riley Parker was a starter and team captain for St. Francis, which won the Northeast Conference Tournament to reach the 2025 NCAA Tournament.
• Senior F Matúš Hronský spent three years with Duquesne and played in two NCAA Tournament games in 2024.
• Sophomore C James O'Donnell was a key contributor for San Francisco, which won 25 games and advanced to the second round of the NIT.
• Additionally, Portland's three true freshmen all played for high level clubs or have national team experience: F Timo George prepped at IMG Academy in Florida and has represented youth national teams for the Netherlands… PG Joel Foxwell played for regional teams as well as with pros in the Australian NBL and NBL1, while G Dante Censori-Hercules has trained extensively with the Canadian Under-19 Team.

ABOUT THE RETURNERS
• Portland returns six players from last year's roster, three of which redshirted.
• Sophomore G Mikah Ballew averaged 4.9 points as a true freshman in 31 total games played. He started his second campaign off strong with a career high 20 points against Willamette on Monday.
• Senior C Jermaine Ballisager Webb started eight games and appeared in 29 total in his first season on The Bluff. He averaged 4.3 points and 1.8 rebounds while shooting 64 percent from the field, including 9-of-13 from three-point range.
• Redshirt sophomore G Kelson Gebbers played in 19 games a year ago and averaged 1.7 points and 1.1 rebounds. He scored a season high 10 points in a win against Lafayette.
• Carlin Briggs, NaVaughn Long and Preston Lee each utilized their redshirt season. Briggs is returning from a knee injury and working his way back into playing shape. Long made his debut against Willamette and recorded two rebounds with a pair of assists. Lee also debuted against the Bearcats and scored five points with a steal.
 
STAFF UPDATE
• Portland added two new assistant coaches to staff this offseason in Mark Berokoff and Anthony Separovich, while Decclan Mclean was promoted to an assistant coach after serving two years as a grad assistant.
• Berokoff brings vast experience to the bench with more than 400 career wins along with multiple state and national championships as a head coach. Berokoff most recently serving four seasons as head coach at NAIA Oklahoma City University.  He led Randall University to three national titles and five national semifinals appearances in nine years (2012-21) at the National Christian College Athletic Association Division II level while serving as both head coach and athletic director.
• Separovich and Mclean are Australians that have helped solidified a strong pipeline for the Pilots Down Under. Separovich previously served as the AUSA Hoops Program and Recruiting Director since 2022. He was instrumental in recruiting, mentoring and guiding boys and girls players from Australia to earn college scholarships in the U.S. More than 500 student athletes represented AUSA in AAU Tournaments across the U.S. in 2025. He helped place more than 100 student-athletes at U.S. colleges over the past three years, including a record 50 in 2024.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Portland current roster features players from seven different countries including nine international student-athletes.
• The Australian pipeline continues to flow with four Pilots hailing from Down Under: Riley Parker, James O'Donnell, Carlin Briggs and Joel Foxwell.
• Throughout his five-year tenure with the Pilots, Legans has had nine different Aussies on the roster and 21 total international players from 12 different countries.

NATIONAL TEAM DUTY
• Four different players have been regular representatives on their home country national teams either at the youth or senior level.
• Jermaine Ballisager Webb (Denmark) played on youth national teams from U15 on and represented the Senior National Team this Summer at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 European Pre-Qualifiers. He averaged 10.8 points and 4.8 rebounds over four games as Denmark secured a qualifying spot.
• Timo George (Netherlands) helped the Netherlands U20 National Team to a fourth-place finish at the 2024 FIBA EuroBasket where he averaged 12.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. He also represented the Netherlands at the U18 European Championships in 2023.
• Matúš Hronský (Slovakia) represented Slovakia at the 2021 U20 European Championships where he averaged 15.8 points in five games. Hronský also played for Slovakia's Senior National Team at the 2021 World Cup where he scored eight points in four games.
• Dante Censori-Hercules (Canada) trained this Summer with the U-19 National Team.

ABOUT ARKANSAS PINE BLUFF
• The Golden Lions (0-1) lost their season opener at Washington by a 94-50 margin.
• Alex Mirhosseini and Jaquan Scott led the way with 13 points each for UAPB.
• UAPB was picked 11^th in the SWAC Preseason Poll, but did pick up one first place vote.
• The Golden Lions went 6-25 last season and return three lettermen for fifth-year head coach Solomon Bozeman.
• Portland won the only previous meeting between the two schools with an 86-74 win on Nov. 18, 2021 at Chiles Center.

ABOUT UC DAVIS
• The Aggies (2-0) defeated Menlo College 96-69 and North Dakota State by an 80-68 margin to open the 2025-26 season.
• Connor Sevilla is averaging 20.0 points and Nil Cooper adds 17.0 points and 5.0 rebounds per game to lead the way. The duo is two of five rotation players returning from last year's team that finished 15-17 overall.
• UC Davis was picked to finish sixth in the Big West Conference Preseason Poll. This will be the final year in the league before the Aggies transition to the Mountain West.
• Head coach Jim Les is beginning his 15th year at the helm and has guided the Aggies to the 2017 NCAA Tournament and NIT bids in 2015 and 2017.
 
PORTLAND-UC DAVIS SERIES HISTORY
Series: Portland leads 6-1
H / A / N:  4-0  / 2-1 / 0-0
Streak: Portland W2
Last: Pilots 65, UC Davis 60 (Dec. 22, 2021 at UC Davis)

WE'RE RIVERBOAT PILOTS, NOT AIRPLANE PILOTS!
• Though a 1935 student contest resulted in the nickname "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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