Portland Pilots (10-17, 5-9 WCC) at Saint Mary's Gaels (23-4, 13-1 WCC)
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025
Time: 7 p.m. (PT)
Place: Moraga, Calif.
Arena: University Credit Union Pavilion
TV: ESPN+
Radio: 910 ESPN-Portland
Live Coverage Links: Video I Audio I Stats

THIS WEEK
• The Pilots (10-17, 5-9 WCC) hit the road for a pair of games this week. Portland visits the WCC-leading Saint Mary's Gaels (23-4, 13-1) on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
• The road trip concludes against the Pacific Tigers (9-20, 4-11) on Saturday at 4 p.m.
 
GAME COVERAGE
• All WCC games will be aired on ESPN+.
• Radio for all Pilot games is on 910 ESPN-Portland with Jason Swygard calling the action. Coverage begins 30 minutes prior to tip-off and ends with a 30-minute post-game show.
• Live coverage links for Portland games can be found at PortlandPilots.com.
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LAST TIME OUT: Pilots 89, LMU 78 (Feb. 15, 2025 @Portland)
• Portland shot 50 percent from three-point range and four Pilots reached double figures led by Max Mackinnon with 29 points and Vukasin Masic adding 21.
• Mackinnon added eight rebounds and four assists, while Masic had a season-high nine rebounds. Chris Austin chipped in with 17 points and freshman forward Austin Rapp filled the stat sheet with 14 points, eight rebounds, six assists and three blocked shots.
• The Pilots nearly led from start-to-finish and pulled away down the stretch as LMU got no closer than seven points in the final 15 minutes of regulation.
• Portland shot an efficient 44 percent from the field and was 11-for-25 from three-point range, while LMU finished at 45 percent overall and 7-of-28 from beyond the arc.
 
RAPP RACKS UP WEEKLY HONORS
• Austin Rapp was named the WCC Freshman of the Week for the third time in four weeks and fifth time overall this season on Monday. Rapp averaged 19.0 points, 6.0 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 1.5 steals and 2.5 blocks per game while shooting 54 percent from the field in Portland's wins against Oregon State and LMU. He went for a season-high 24 points against the Beavers.
• The Melbourne, Australia native is averaging 13.8 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, both tops among all freshmen in the WCC. He also leads the entire WCC in three-point percentage (.366) and three-pointers made per game (2.7), is third in blocks per game (1.4) and fourth in FT percentage (.854).
• Among freshmen nationally, Rapp leads the country in threes made (70), is No. 2 in free throw percentage, third in three-point percentage, 11th in blocked shots (35), 17th in rebounding and 19th 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.
• He passed Juanse Gorosito (61, 2022-23) to break the UP Freshman record for threes made in a season Feb. 1 at Pepperdine. Rapp's next three-pointer will move him onto the Top 10 single-season charts in program history.
 
MACKINNON TO THE MAX
• Elon junior transfer Max Mackinnon's performance against San Diego on Jan. 23 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. He garnered WCC and USBWA Player of the Week honors for his efforts.
• The Brisbane, Australia native made his first 11 free throws against USD to extend his streak of consecutive makes to 40 before having the streak broken late in regulation.
• Mackinnon has delivered during WCC play averaging 18.9 points during conference games, good for second in the league. His 48.8 percent from the field is sixth in WCC contests, while he is No. 3 in free throw percentage (.913).
• 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 and 29 points in a home win against LMU on Feb. 15.
• 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.
 
AUSTIN BREAKS OUT
• Graduate G Chris Austin has come up big recently for the Pilots. He has reached double figures seven times in the last eight games including 20 or more points three times during the span.
• Austin scored a season high 23 points on 8-of-11 shooting, including 4-for-5 from three-point range at Washington State Jan. 18 and followed with 20 points, five rebounds and five assists against San Diego Jan. 23. He then erupted for 20 points on 7-of-12 shooting at Pepperdine Feb. 1.
• Austin also recorded 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.
 
MASIC MAKING WAVES
• Vukasin Masic is Portland's top returning scorer after averaging 12.5 points per game last season and is adding 8.8 points per game this year. He returned to the lineup against LMU on Jan. 30 after missing the previous four games (back) and was crucial in Portland's home wins against Oregon State and LMU last week.
• 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.
 
DELANO DELIVERING
• Redshirt freshman PG Vincent 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 6.0 points per game and is leading the team with 29 steals.
 
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 8-for-11 from the field with six offensive rebounds. 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.
 
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 40 percent of Portland's total scoring this year. Austin Rapp is Portland's second leading scorer (13.8), while RS freshman PG Vincent Delano and freshman G Mikah Ballew add 6.0 and 5.3 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 has started 16 games, while Ballew and RS freshman Kelson Gebbers are also key rotation players.
• Todd Jones has started eight games and contributing 2.8 points and 2.5 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.
 
AUSSIE CONNECTIONS
• Head Coach Shantay Legans 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.
 
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 SAINT MARY'S
• The Gaels (23-4, 13-1 WCC) are alone atop the WCC standings and ranked No. 20 in the latest NCAA Net Rankings.
• Saint Mary's has notable wins against Nebraska, USC, Utah, Gonzaga and Santa Clara. The Gaels split with San Francisco and have non-conference losses to Arizona State, Boise State and Utah State.
• Augustas Marciulionis leads three players averaging double figures at 14.3 points per game.
• Head coach Randy Bennett is in his 24th season and has led SMC to 10 NCAA Tournaments.
 
PORTLAND-SAINT MARY'S SERIES DETAILS
Series: Saint Mary's leads 75-30; H / A / N: 22-30 / 7-40 / 1-5
Streak: SMC W15
Last Meeting: SMC 81, Pilots 58 (Jan. 4, 2025 at POR)

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 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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