The Tiger men's basketball team hosts Fresno State on Thursday, Dec. 29 in the final non-conference game of the preseason. Pacific opens up Big West Conference play on Monday, Jan. 2 at Cal State Fullerton. Thursday's game against Fresno State begins at 7:30 p.m., following a women's basketball contest against Cal State Fullerton at 5:00 p.m.

Pacific enters the Fresno State game with a record of 4-6 overall, with all four victories coming at home. The Tigers have lost their last three games, all road encounters. Junior Lorenzo McCloud leads the Tigers in scoring with 10.0 points per game. He is also the team's assist leader, dishing out 3.0 per game. Sophomore Ross Rivera is averaging 8.1 points per game, but is scoring 11.3 points per contest over the last five.

LAST GAME: The Tigers lost 83-53 at Cal State Bakersfield on Dec. 22.

RADIO:  All Tiger basketball games are broadcast live on KWSX (1280 AM) in Stockton ... Zack Bayrouty calls the play-by-play ... Air time is 20 minutes before tip-off ... All regular season Pacific basketball games can be heard outside the KWSX listening area by going to http://pacifictigers.com and clicking on the broadcast link from the home page.

TV:  Pacific will be on local, regional or national television five times during the 2011-12 season.

ON THE INTERNET: Visit http://pacifictigers.com for the latest news, scores and information about all 16 NCAA Division I sports at Pacific. Select Tiger games are also available through http://bigwest.tv.

PROBABLE STARTERS: (2011-12 Stats)

points rebounds asst

F 24 Travis Fulton 6-6 Jr. Corona, Calif. 7.4 4.6

C 13 Khalil Kelley 6-8 So. Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. 6.4 5.8

G 2 Colin Beatty 6-4 Jr. Lanham, Md. 6.8 3.5

G 12 Andrew Bock 6-2 So. Rialto, Calif. 6.1 1.2

G 11 Lorenzo McCloud 6-0 Jr. Los Angeles, Calif. 10.0 2.6 3.0

RESERVES: (listed numerically)

points rebounds asst.

F 1 Trevin Harris 6-6 So. Kingwood, Texas 4.2 1.7

G 3 Marvin Cotton 6-2 Sr. Lathrop, Calif. 0.7 0.7

G 4 Markus Duran 6-0 Jr. Murray, Utah 6.4 1.5

G 5 Spencer Llewellyn 6-3 Fr. Sydney, Australia 2.0 0.0

G 10 Markcus Falley 6-3 So. Las Vegas, Nev. 2.8 1.4

F 20 Ross Rivera 6-7 So. Visalia, Calif. 8.1 3.1

F 21 Adam Eakles 6-8 So. Woodland, Calif. 0.7 0.7

G 30 Rodrigo De Souza 6-2 Jr. Sao Paulo, Brazil 8.3 1.7 2.3

C 41 Rundell Mauge 7-1 Jr. Cedres, Trinidad 2.4 2.9

COACH BOB THOMASON:  Former Pacific basketball standout Bob Thomason (Pacific '71) is 407-296 (.579) in his 24th season as the head coach of his alma mater ... Thomason is the Big West all-time wins leader, surpassing Jerry Tarkanian after the 65-57 victory over Utah State on Dec. 3 ... Thomason has 229 Big West wins, which is the most in league history ... Thomason was named CollegeInsider.com Big West Conference Coach of the Year in 2009-10 ... Entering the 2011-12 season, he is the 26th winningest active coach and ninth on the list of Most Seasons With Current School ... After leading the Tigers to a 27-4 record in 2004-05, Thomason was named as a finalist for the CollegeInsider.com Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year award and received USBWA District 9 Coach of the Year honors ... Bob surpassed his former coach Dick Edwards for the most career wins at Pacific, and has coached more games than any coach in school history ... He was an all-conference guard under coach Edwards from 1967-71, and has earned Big West Conference Coach of the Year honors five times (in 1992-93, 1996-97, 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06) ... Thomason has guided his teams to nine Big West Tournament semifinal games and is 2-3 in championship appearances ... Thomason was a 2006 inductee into the Stockton Athletic Hall of Fame ... He holds a 459-323 overall record in his 26th year as an NCAA head coach, including a three-year stint at Div. III Cal State Stanislaus where he led the Warriors to the 1988 NCAA Tournament ... He is the winningest coach in Spanos Center history, claiming a 232-75 mark (.756), and has directed Pacific to a 173-48 (.783) home mark since 1995 ... He has been a part of 463 wins at Pacific, as a player (1968-1971) and coach (1988-present) ... In NCAA Tournament games, Thomason is 2-4.

RECORDS:  Pacific is 4-6 this season, 0-0 in the Big West.

TIGERS VS. Fresno State: Pacific leads the all-time series with Fresno State 78-75, with the Tigers winning four of the last six meetings ... At 153 games, it is the second longest series in the Tiger record book ... The Tigers lead the series in Stockton 46-25, but dropped a 66-64 decision to the Bulldogs in the last Spanos Center encounter on Dec. 6, 2008.

FRESNO STATE

78-75 (46-25, 32-48, 0-2)

last 20 meetings

  2-22-92 • W 77-70

12-19-92 W 70-49

12-11-93 • W 81-71

12-  7-94 • W 96-93

12-  9-95 • W 73-70

11-22-96 L 71-75

12-13-97 • W 85-74

  3-11-98 • L 70-73

12-  7-98 L 74-91

12-18-99 • L 63-69

11-30-00 L 55-66

11-28-01 • L 65-73

12-11-02 L 60-80

12-10-03 • L 51-66

12-21-04 W 88-77

12-17-05 • W 99-63

12-22-07 L 58-75

12-  6-08 • L 64-66

12-  1-09 W 70-58

12-21-10 W 65-55

THOMASON BREAKS ALL-TIME BIG WEST WINS MARK, COACHES GAME #700: Pacific head coach Bob Thomason picked up his 406th win at Pacific with the Tigers' 65-57 victory over Utah State on Dec. 3 ... He surpassed Jerry Tarkanian for the most wins in Big West tenure ... The game on Dec. 6 against Hawai'i was the 700th of Thomason's career at Pacific.

CAREER VICTORIES - BIG WEST CONFERENCE

1. 407 - Bob Thomason, Pacific

2. 405 - Jerry Tarkanian, Long Beach State & UNLV

3. 248 - Neil McCarthy, New Mexico State 

4. 222 - Jerry Pimm, UC Santa Barbara

5. 199 - Bob Williams, UC Santa Barbara 

TIGERS FINDING THEIR STRIDE AT THE LINE: After hitting just half of their shots from the line in the first two games, Pacific has shot 81.5 percent over the next four games ... Pacific dropped to 54.5 percent at CSU Bakersfield.

Opponent FT FTA PCT

Cal State Monterey Bay 13 26 .500

Nevada 5 10 .500

Cal State Dominguez Hills 26 37 .703

Hawai'i 21 28 .750

Stanford 0 0 .000

Utah State 17 20 .850

Hawai'i 9 11 .818

San Francisco 10 13 .769

Santa Clara 17 21 .810

Cal State Bakersfield 12 22 .545

PACIFIC GAME AT UC DAVIS CHANGED TO FEB. 14: Pacific's game at UC Davis has been moved to Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 7:00 p.m. ... It was originally scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 15, but has been changed due to a scheduling conflict.

TIGERS RETURN LOWEST SCORING TOTAL IN THE NATION: The Tigers return just junior Jordan Turner and sophomore Khalil Kelley from last year's 16-15 team ... Turner and Kelley combined for 39 points (2% of 2038 team points), the lowest returning scoring total in the country.

SEVEN DIFFERENT LINEUPS FOR THE TIGERS: As the Tigers try to find the right combination on the floor in the early part of the season, Pacific has had seven different starting lineups in 10 games this year ... No Tiger has started more than eight games for the team, while 12 of 15 players on the active roster have made at least one start.

TIGERS WITH SIX DIFFERENT LEADER SCORERS: In each of Pacific's first three games this year, a different Tiger led the team in scoring ... Markus Duran (23 vs. CSUDH), Lorenzo McCloud (11 at Nevada, 23 at Hawaii, 22 at Santa Clara), Colin Beatty (14 vs. CSUMB), Travis Fulton (13 at Stanford), Ross Rivera (15 vs. Utah State, 15 at USF, 14 at CSUB) and Khalil Kelley (15 vs. Hawai'i) have each topped the scoring list this year.

HONDA CENTER HOME FOR THE ampm BIG WEST TOURNAMENT: Honda Center is in the second year of a five-year partnership to host the ampm Big West Conference Tournament. The Big West Tournament is the oldest NCAA Division I post-season basketball tournament in the west, dating back to 1976 when the conference was known as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association.

TIGERS ON SPANOS CENTER OPENING NIGHT:  The Tigers have won the home opener 22 times throughout head coach Bob Thomason's 24 years, including 16 of the last 17.

Year W/L Opponent Score

1988-89 W Cal Poly 95-74

1989-90 W UC Davis 91-73

1990-91 W Saint Mary's 61-58

1991-92 W Nevada 78-62

1992-93 W Oregon 80-68

1993-94 W Sacramento State 91-64

1994-95 L Santa Clara 74-72 (ot)

1995-96 W San Diego 80-78

1996-97 W Cal State Stanislaus 91-51

1997-98 W Cal State Stanislaus 80-45

1998-99 W Santa Clara 56-51

1999-2000 W Loyola Marymount 78-46

2000-01 W Chico State 101-59

2001-02 W Cal State Monterey Bay 86-65

2002-03 L Santa Clara 78-72

2003-04 W San Jose State 76-65 (ot)

2004-05 W Santa Clara 71-65

2005-06 W Sonoma State 74-55

2006-07 W Cal State Bakersfield 75-67

2007-08 W Lewis & Clark College 92-47

2008-09 W UC San Diego 66-58

2009-10 W San Diego 56-55

2010-11 W William Jessup 70-61

2011-12 W Cal State Monterey Bay 75-63

TIGERS EXCEL IN BIG WEST OPENERS: Pacific has won its opening Big West game in 12 of the last 13 seasons, losing just the opener of the 2005-06 season to UC Riverside.

Big West Openers since 1999

1998-99 W Utah State 84-73

1999-2000 W Boise State 53-52

2000-01 W Cal State Fullerton 79-50

2001-02 W Idaho 52-48

2002-03 W Idaho 73-50

2003-04 W UC Riverside 73-59

2004-05 W UC Riverside 58-45

2005-06 L UC Riverside 71-83

2006-07 W Cal State Northridge 68-64

2007-08 W UC Riverside 82-54

2008-09 W Cal State Northridge 84-78 (ot)

2009-10 W Cal State Northridge 52-43

2010-11 W Cal State Northridge 75-64

THOMASON NINTH AMONG COACHES WITH CURRENT SCHOOL: As Tiger head coach Bob Thomason leads the Tigers for the 24th season, he is ninth on the list of coaches with their current school.

MOST SEASONS WITH CURRENT SCHOOL (At the beginning of the 2011-12 season)

No. Yrs. Coach, Team and Seasons

1. 35 Jim Boeheim, #Syracuse 1977-2011

2. 33 Dave Bike, #Sacred Heart 1979-2011

3. 31 Mike Krzyzewski, Duke 1981-2011

4. 29 Don Maestri, #Troy 1983-2011

5. 27 Greg Kampe, #Oakland 1985-2011

6. 25 Rick Byrd, Belmont 1987-2011

25 Jim Calhoun, Connecticut 1987-2011

25 Fang Mitchell, #Coppin St. 1987-2011

9. 24 Bob Thomason, Pacific 1989-2011

# - has coached only at this school

PACIFIC ROAD RECORDS: Pacific is 0-6 on the road in 2011-12 ... Last year the Tigers were 6-9 on the road.

HOME NOTES:  Pacific is 4-0 in the Spanos Center this year and has won 26 of the last 33 on campus ... Pacific was 8-5 in the Spanos Center in 2010-11 ... The Tigers are 95-26 in the Spanos Center over the last seven years ... Pacific is 173-48 over the last 13 seasons at home ... Pacific has a Spanos Center record of 202-57 since the 1992-93 season.

NON-CONFERENCE SPANOS FEVER: Pacific has lost just 20 times in the last 110 non-conference matchups in the Spanos Center (90-20), for a winning percentage of .818 since 1989.

ATTENDANCE NUMBERS: Pacific leads the Big West Conference in total attendance over the last seven years ... The Tigers have led the league in six of the last seven years.

SCORING AND REBOUNDING LEADERS: 

Pacific Team Leaders in Single Game Scoring - 2011-12

Lorenzo McCloud - 3.0

Ross Rivera - 3.0

Colin Beatty - 1.0

Markus Duran - 1.0

Travis Fulton - 1.0

Khalil Kelley - 1.0

note - .5 given for sharing team-high honors - .3 given for three players sharing team-high honors

Pacific Team Leaders in Single Game Rebounding - 2011-12

Khalil Kelley - 5.0

Travis Fulton - 3.0

Colin Beatty - 1.0

Ross Rivera - 1.0

note - .5 given for sharing team-high honors - .3 given for three players - .25 given for four players

TAKING CHARGE: Playing great position defense this year, the Tigers have drawn a number of offensive fouls by their opponents.

Opponent Charges Taken

CSUMB 1

Nevada 3

CSUDH 1

Hawai'i 2

Stanford 4

Utah State 2

Hawai'i 3

USF 4

Santa Clara 1

CSUB 2