Portland Pilots (2-0, 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 and followed with an 83-74 victory over Arkansas Pine Bluff on Thursday.
• Portland concludes its season opening three-game homestand against UC Davis on Sunday with a 2 p.m. tip-off.
 
GAME COVERAGE
• All Portland home games will be aired live on ESPN+.
• Sunday's game versus UC Davis will also be televised locally on KUNP-TV with Ann Schatz and Jennifer Mountain on the call.
• 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 20-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 83, Arkansas Pine Bluff 74 (Nov. 6, 2025)
• Portland had four players score in double figures and a 42-point showing from the bench on the way to the win against the Golden Lions Thursday at the Chiles Center.
• Sophomore G Mikah Ballew had a team high15 points off the bench. Jermaine Ballisager Webb added 14 points off the bench and freshman PG Joel Foxwell helped with a double-double of 12 points and 10 assists along with six rebounds.
• Portland led by as much as 19 points in the second half and maintained a double digit lead until the final minute. The Pilot defense held UAPB shooters to just 36.8 percent from the field.
• Portland never trailed in the second half and shared the ball well, recording an assist on 20 of 26 made baskets. Nine different Pilots scored in the contest.

BALLEW IS BALLIN
• Sophomore G Mikah Ballew is averaging a team best 17.5 points through the first two games.
• He scored a career high 20 points in the opener vs. Willamette and added 15 off the bench Thursday against Arkansas Pine Bluff. He has shot an efficient 6 of 11 from three-point range and knocked down 13 of 16 free throws.
• Ballew was a key contributor last season off the bench for Portland and the most experienced Pilot returner in terms of minutes played and scoring.

FRESHMAN PHENOMS
• Portland's three true freshmen have all had major impacts out of the gates.
• Point guard Joel Foxwell started both games and recorded his first double-double against Pine Bluff with 12 points and 10 assists. He is averaging 15.0 points, 4.5 rebounds, 7.5 assists and 2.5 steals per game thus far.
• Forward Timo George has come off the bench to put up 14.0 points and 5.0 rebounds per contest. He is 9-for-14 from the field and already has four dunks, including two alley oops from Foxwell.
• Guard Dante Censori-Hercules has been a defensive stopper off the bench with a pair of blocked shots and a steal to go with 3.0 rebounds per game.

BALANCE IS KEY
• The Pilots were expected to have a balanced scoring attack this season and the first two games have shown just that.
• Four players reached double figures in each game and five Pilots are averaging double digits early on.
• Minutes have also been pretty evenly distributed among the nine primary rotation players with each averaging at least 13.5 minutes per game.
• That balance is expected to receive an additional boost with the return of senior captain Riley Parker, who missed the first two games with a foot injury.

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 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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