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LOS ANGELES - The 2015-16 regular season will end for LMU men's basketball on Saturday hosting the Wells Fargo PCH Cup Rivalry against Pepperdine. The annual showdown at Gersten Pavilion will be the final WCC Game of the Week with coverage starting with WCC THIS WEEK live on Time Warner Cable SportsNet at 12:30 pm. It is the 2016 Senior Day honoring David Humphries and Marin Mornar as well as the 2016 Recent Alums Return to Gersten game. Tip-off is set for 1 pm and will also air on TWC SportsNet and on KXLU 88.9 FM.

GAME DAY AT GERSTEN - A HYPERLAPSE LOOK

THE MATCH-UP
• The longest running series in program history resumes on Saturday with the 164th all-time meeting between LMU and Pepperdine. The meeting will be for the Wells Fargo PCH Cup points with Pepperdine taking the first meeting of the season on Jan. 2, 68-65 in overtime. The game is the second straight WCC Game of the Week from Gersten Pavilion and will begin with the live pregame show WCC THIS WEEK at 12:30 pm on Time Warner Cable SportsNet. The game is the 2016 Senior Day and will honor seniors David Humphries and Marin Mornar. Pregame ceremonies honoring the two seniors along with the LMU AIr Force ROTC presenting the nation's colors will begin at 12:45. TIp-off is set for 1 pm. It is the annual Recent Alums Return to Gersten game with special pricing for alums graduating from LMU the last 10 years. Recent Alums can get general admission tickets to sit on the lower level student section for just $10. Go online to purchase by 11:59 pm Friday night for the special price. Visit LMULions.com/Tickets and enter promo code LMURECENTALUM16. The game will air live on TWC SportsNet, CSN California, ROOT Northwest, and ROOT Rocky Mountain, as well as online at TheW.tv (out-of-region).

INSIDE THE LIONS
• Saturday will be the last set of games of the regular season for most of the West Coast Conference. The Lions opened their final three-game homestand with a 76-62 setback to Santa Clara on Thursday and then a thrilling 100-87 win in overtime over San Francisco. Junior Brandon Brown had back-to-back point-assist double-doubles last weekend to lead the Lions. The Broncos went 20-for-25 while the Lions were 3-for-6 in the setback on Thursday. On Saturday the Lions reached the century mark in league play for the first time since 1998 thanks in part to outscoring USF 18-5 in overtime for the win. LMU is 12-16 on the season and 5-12 in the WCC.

• The Lions continue to lead the league in turnover margin at +2.3, ranking first in the WCC in creating 13.9 turnovers a game while turning the ball over just 11.57 times per game, third in the WCC. The average on the season has dipped below the lowest in program history, and the previous marks happen to be the last time Mike Dunlap was with the program. Three off the six lowest turnover seasons came between 1980-85 when Dunlap was an assistant coach for the Lions.

• The Lions are second in the WCC in steals at 6.8 and are third in assist-to-turnover ration at 1.4. They held a 18 to 11 edge in points off turnovers in the win over the Tigers. The Lions, who had 22 assists against BYU on Jan. 23 and then another 22 against Portland, are third in the league at 15.9 per game. They had 21against both Santa Clara and San Francisco last week, thanks to Brown's 10 assists in each game.

• Seniors David Humphries and Marin Mornar have combined to play 169 games as Lions, ranking first and second on this year's team in games played. Mornar is tied for 14th all-time with 112 games played and will move into a tie for 11th on Saturday with his 113th. Humphries has averaged 6.0 ppg in his two seasons, hitting 37.8 percent from three (65-for-172). He enters his final game at Gersten Pavilion ranked 10th all-time in program history for three-point shooting percentage. As for Mornar, he has averaged 5.7 ppg in starting 35 games. He has 126 blocks, which ranks second all-time in LMU history.

• Heading into the final regular season game of the season, the Lions have been managing the ball about as good as they have in program history. Freshman Munis Tutu and junior Brandon Brown has been a big reason whey. In his first season, Tutu is on pace to set the record for assist-to-turnover ratio (with 80 or more assists). He enters the game at 2.73, while Brown would rank fifth on that list. And the tie to the top-10 of that list is Head Coach Mike Dunlap. Of the top-10, six have been coached by Dunlap, including Tutu, Brown, Chase Flint, Kevin Sparks, Dan Davis and Ed Goorjian.

• Junior Brandon Brown became the first player since Tony Walker in 1992 to have back-to-back games with points-assists double-doubles. Walker did it on three straight games between Feb. 28, 1992 and against on Mar. 7. It is just the eighth time in school history that it has happened. In addition, with 82 assists on the season, freshman Munis Tutu is tied for sixth on the school's all-time freshman list.

• Steven Haney Jr. was named First-Team WCC All-Academic on Feb. 19. Haney, who is in his first season of competition at LMU after transferring in 2014-15, has a 3.28 GPA as a Communications major. He has played in all 28 games, starting 23. He led the Lions in the win over USF, going for 25 points, hitting 8-for-8 from the free throw line. He seventh in the WCC averaging 2.3 three-pointers per game. He has 65 so far this season, hitting eight last weekend. 13th all-time for three-pointers made in a season, needing just three to crack the top-10. His 194 attempts is ranked 8th. He is third on the team with 10.3 points per contest.

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