STOCKTON, Calif. -- Playing in its final home game of the season, the Pacific men's basketball team welcomes Portland to the Alex G. Spanos Center on Thursday, Feb. 24.

Last Monday, Jeremiah Bailey led the Tigers against San Francisco, scoring a team-high 20 points. Bailey was one of four Tigers to score in double figures as he earned his second-straight 20-point performance and was a perfect four-for-four from the three-point line. The senior from Fairbanks, Alaska, who has improved from the free-throw line throughout the season, shot 80 percent (eight-for-10) from the charity stripe.
 
Nick Blake and Jaden Byers also reached double figures for the Tigers as they combined for 22 second-half points. Blake, who finished the game with 16 points, shot 54.5 percent (six-for-11) from the floor, while Byers tied his career-high in points with 10 and had one of his best shooting performances of the season.
 
Alphonso Anderson, who scored all 11 of his points in the first half, led the team with five rebounds and was influential on the defensive side of the ball as he drew five fouls.
 
After defeating Pepperdine, 77-74, on February 19, Portland enters Thursday's contest on a five-game winning streak and has an overall record of 16-12. The Pilots have rattled off four-straight conference wins, including an upset victory over San Francisco, to cement themselves in seventh place in the conference standings with a record of 6-6.  
 
The program has improved under first-year head coach Shantay Legans and is guaranteed at least a .500 record for the first time since the 2014-15 season when the team went 17-16.
 
Pacific leads the all-time series against Portland, 30-13, as the Tigers have won nine of the last 10 contests. During that stretch, the Tigers have outscored the Pilots, 701-593, averaging 70.1 points per game. The Tigers have also been victorious against the Pilots at home, holding a 17-3 record in Stockton.
 
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Stockton, Calif. • Alex G. Spanos Center
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TIGER TIDBITS

• Three seniors will be recognized after the game on Thursday as Bailey, Anderson, and Jordan Bell will be playing in their final game at the Alex G. Spanos Center. 

• Anderson has played in 27 games in his first season with the Tigers, starting 26. He is second on the team in scoring, averaging 11.3 points per game. The senior from Tacoma, Wash., leads the team in rebounds, tallying 6.7 rebounds per game, and has collected 46 offensive rebounds. 

• Bailey has tallied 783 points in four seasons for the Tigers and has averaged 11.4 points per game in the past two seasons. The senior from Fairbanks, Alaska, scored a career-high 28 points in a win over LMU during the 2020-21 season and has recorded five-career double-doubles. 

• Bell has played 44 games for the Tigers in his career, starting in 17. He led the team, averaging 6.9 rebounds per game during the 2020-21 season, ranking eighth-best in the West Coast Conference. The senior from Inglewood, Calif., scored a Pacific career-high 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds against San Jose State earlier this season.

• After tallying a team-high four assists against San Francisco, Pierre Crockrell II is three assists shy of cracking the top three in the West Coast Conference. Crockrell II currently sits at 116 assists on the season and ranks fifth in the conference, averaging 4.3 assists per game.

• Bailey has recorded back-to-back 20-point performances twice in his career. The last time Bailey scored 20 points in two-straight games was last season when he scored 21 points in a home win against Portland on February 11, 2021, and then scored 28 points in a win at LMU on February 13, 2021.

• Pacific was selected eighth in the West Coast Conference preseason poll of the league's 10 head coaches. At the top of the preseason poll is Gonzaga, who secured nine of the 10 first-place votes. BYU, who received the other vote, was second, followed by Saint Mary's. Gonzaga, BYU, Santa Clara, and San Francisco each landed two players on the preseason All-WCC Team.