FULLERTON, Calif. – The Pacific men's basketball program will take on Cal State Fullerton for the sixth consecutive year as the Tigers travel to Titan Gym for a 2 p.m. game Saturday.
 
Pacific (2-1) and CSU Fullerton (1-2) have exchanged home and away games each year since 2020. Last season, The Tigers won 64-55 at home as they limited the Titans to a .333 shooting day from the floor and .250 mark from long range.
 
The Tigers are coming off a 69-66 win over Long Beach State where they were able to overcome a cold 3-of-20 (.150) night from long range. Pacific trailed by 11 at the 14:38 mark of the second half before rallying back. The Tigers garnered big contributions off the bench from seniors Alexis Marmolejos and KC Ibekwe, as Marmolejos tallied season-highs of 15 points and seven rebounds, while Ibekwe registered a season-high eight points on 4-of-5 shooting.
 
Senior Elias Ralph, who was named to the WCC Preseason All-Conference Team, leads Pacific in points (18.7 ppg), rebounding (8.0 rpg), blocks (1.7 bpg) and minutes played (36.7 mpg). He's shooting .563 (9-16) from long range and has recorded at least 15 points and seven rebounds in every game. In his last outing against LBSU, he drained a career-high nine free throws on 10 attempts.
 
Senior Jaden Clayton ranks top-10 in the nation with 8.3 assists per game. He dished out a season-high 11 last weekend at Nevada. Clayton scores 8.7 points per outing with a season-high 13 against Life Pacific.
 
CSU Fullerton opened its season with a 136-82 win over Caltech before dropping road games to Wyoming 92-82 and Cal 93-65. The Titans welcomed 14 newcomers this year and brought back one returning starter in Kendrick De Luna.
 
The team is led by Jefferson De La Cruz Monegro who scores 13.7 points per game. He averaged 10.1 points per outing last season at Valparaiso. Landon Seaman, a Menlo College transfer who notched 19.8 points per game last year, tallied 20 points on 9-of-14 shooting in the team's last outing at Cal. 
 
Saturday's game can be watched on ESPN+ or heard live for free on Fox Sports AM 1280 with Zack Bayrouty on the call.
 
Pacific's next home game is against Sacramento State at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 29. The Tigers are 811-462 all-time at home, 348-229 in the Alex G. Spanos Center and 2-0 this season. Pacific is 31-8 all-time against Sac State and 20-3 at home. The last meeting was a 74-58 home win on Dec. 1, 2016.
 
NOTES
- The Tigers lead the all-time series 49-41 over the Titans.
 
- Pacific and CSU Fullerton used to compete against each other as members of the Big West Conference before Pacific departed for the West Coast Conference at the end of 2012-13.
 
- Pacific is on the road for the second consecutive Saturday. Last weekend, Pacific dropped a tough 78-77 nail-biter at Nevada. The Tigers had two looks at the rim in closing seconds but couldn't get one to go as the buzzer sounded.
 
- The Tigers are going for their first non-conference road win since knocking off Cal 87-79 on Nov. 10, 2023.
 
- In the win over Life Pacific, the Tigers held a wide 44-20 margin in points in the paint and a 16-0 edge in fast break points. Pacific won its season and home opener by exactly 27 points for the second year in a row. Last year, in head coach Dave Smart's debut, the Tigers beat Jessup 92-65.
 
- The new-look Tigers reloaded with 15 newcomers this year, which included 10 transfers and five freshmen. They have Division I transfers from Binghamton, Dayton, Florida, Lamar, Long Beach State, Maine, UC San Diego and Washington. Most notably, junior Kajus Kublickas was part of a national championship team last season with the Gators.
                       
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