STOCKTON, Calif. – A home-and-away weekend for the Pacific men's basketball program features LMU coming to the Alex G. Spanos Center at 7 p.m. Thursday before the Tigers head to Pepperdine for a 7 p.m. Saturday tip at Firestone Fieldhouse.
 
Thursday will be the first meeting of the season between Pacific (6-15, 1-6 WCC) and LMU (11-8, 3-4 WCC). Saturday will be a rematch between the Tigers and the Waves (7-12, 1-5 WCC) after Pepperdine took the first meeting 87-70 on Jan. 4.
 
Pacific has been led by the Canadian duo of senior Elias Ralph and junior Elijah Fisher, who both score over 16 points per game, and each have scored in double-figures in 20 of 21 contests.
 
Ralph averages team-highs of 16.6 points and 7.2 rebounds per game and has seven double-doubles on the year. He ranks third in the West Coast Conference in field goal percentage (.504) and fourth in offensive rebounding (.504).
 
In conference, Fisher tallies a team-high 16.9 points per game and is shooting .583 from the field. He's also 5-of-13 (.385) from long range.
 
In Pacific's last outing at Portland, junior Lamar Washington came one rebound away from the program's first-ever triple-double with 14 points, 12 assists and nine rebounds. It came after a monster week where he won WCC Player of the Week with a career-high 40 points and a game-winning three-pointer at Washington State.
 
In the win over the Cougars, Washington was 16-of-22 from the field and 4-of-6 from three and more-than doubled his previous career-high of 19 points. He played 45 minutes in both overtime games this season.
 
LMU is coming off back-to-back home wins over Santa Clara 57-54 and San Diego 77-70. The Lions are going for their first road win of the year. LMU has four student-athletes averaging in double-figure scoring including Caleb Stone-Carrawell with 13.8 points per game.
 
Pepperdine dropped a pair of home games last weekend to San Francisco 80-63 and Saint Mary's 74-50. Stefan Todorovic ranks top-35 in the country in scoring with 18.9 points per game and tallied 29 points in the first meeting between the two teams this year.
 
Both games can be watched live on ESPN+ and can be heard on Fox Sports 1280 AM.
 
NOTES
- Pacific is 16-13 all-time at home against LMU. The Tigers have won four of the last five home games in the series.
 
- The Tigers are 807-458 all-time at home and 344-225 in the Alex G. Spanos Center.
 
- Pacific is 43-38 all-time against Pepperdine.
 
- Fisher ranks 11th in the country in free throw attempts (139) and 12th in free throws made (105).
 
- Washington ranks eighth in the nation in total assists (132) and 17th in assists per game (6.3).
 
- Washington was the first Tiger to win WCC Player of the Week since Keylan Boone on Jan. 9, 2023, over two years ago. He averaged 26.5 points and 4.5 rebounds per game against WSU and Oregon State and was 21-of-33 (.636) from the floor and 5-of-9 (.556) from beyond the arc.
 
- Twice this season Ralph and Washington posted double-doubles in the same game. The first was in an 80-67 win over San Jose State where Ralph tallied 14 points and 10 rebounds, while Washington recorded 14 points and 10 assists. Most recently, Ralph notched 26 points and 11 rebounds at Portland and Washington registered 14 points and 12 assists. Prior to this year, the Tigers had not garnered two double-doubles in the same game since Jan. 12, 2017.
 
- Pacific has matched its season win total from last year and surpassed its conference win total.
 
- In all six of Pacific's wins this year, the team has outscored the opposition in the paint.
 
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