STOCKTON, Calif. - The Tigers will have a post-Thanksgiving Day contest against Arkansas-Pine Bluff tonight at 7 p.m. at the Alex G. Spanos Center in its final game of The Cerebro Sports Cali Jam. It is the second meeting between the Tigers and the Lions. In the first meeting on Nov. 24, 2017, Pacific posted a 78-69 victory as Miles Reynolds led four Tigers in double figures with 20 points. Earlier this season, UAPB faced WCC foe, Portland on November 18 as the Pilots came away with a 86-74 win.

Since joining the Division I ranks, the Pacific men's basketball program has picked up 1,299 wins as it closes in on 1,300. Based on record books, when Pacific held Chicago State to 12 points in the first half on Monday that set a school record for points allowed in the first 20 minutes of a game. In all three of the Tigers' wins, they have made eight 3-pointers on the season. Pacific has won 17 of its last 21 games where they have made eight 3-pointers in a game. On Monday night, Pacific knocked down a season-high 10 3-pointers (its most since October 15, 2019 against CSUN as they also hit 10 in that contest). Also, for the first time since Feb. 8, 2020 vs. Pepperdine, four Tigers hit multiple 3-pointers in a game.

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Pacific	Tonight's Opponent: Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Last Game: Nov. 22, 2021 vs. Chicago State (W, 74-58)	Last Game: Nov. 22, 2021 vs. UC Santa Barbara (L, 86-58)
Head Coach: Leonard Perry	Head Coach: Solomon Bozeman
Career Record for Perry: 51-100 (6th season)	Career Record for Bozeman:  0-6 (1st season)

TIGER TIDBITS
• Tonight is the second meeting between the Tigers and the Lions.
• Closing in on win 1,300 - currently since joining the NCAA Division I ranks, the Tigers men's basketball program has 1,299 wins.
• Stifling defense - Pacific held Chicago State to just 12 points in the first 20 minutes of Monday's contest. 
• Nearly flawless - Sam Freeman - has made 17 of his last 20 shots for an astonishing 85% field-goal percentage. His efforts do not meet NCAA minimum requirements (5 made per game).
• In all three of the Tigers' wins, they have made eight 3-pointers on the season. Pacific has won 17 of its last 21 games where they have made eight 3-pointers in a game. On Monday night, Pacific knocked down a season-high 10 3-pointers (its most since October 15, 2019 against CSUN as they also hit 10 in that contest).
• In Monday's win, for the first time since Feb. 8, 2020 vs. Pepperdine, four Tigers hit multiple 3-pointers in a game.
• Monday's starting lineup - Pierre Crockrell II, Alphonso Anderson, Jeremiah Bailey, Sam Freeman and Luke Avdalovic - was the first time that Coach Perry has put the combination together to start a game in 2021-22. For Freeman, it was his first start of his young career. 
• With its 65-46 win against Stanislaus State on Tuesday, Nov. 16, Pacific has not lost a home opener since 2002-03. 
• Jeremiah Bailey was named to the Outrigger Resorts Rainbow Classic All-Tournament Team as he averaged 14.0 points, 6.3 rebounds and 2.7 steals per game in the three contests. 
• Jeremiah Bailey, who wears #13, was featured on NCAA.com as they ranked the best current men's college basketball player for every jersey number. 
• In the win over Hawaii Hilo, Luke Avdalovic hit five 3-pointers - the most by a Pacific player since Jeremiah Bailey knocked down six in last year's second matchup against BYU. The Northern Arizona transfer was a three-year team leader with 39 made threes in 2020-21, 52 in 2019-20, 73 in 2018-19 for the Lumberjacks. He left NAU sixth in program history in 3-pointers made (164) and in 3-point percentage (.453).
• Leonard Perry is the 23rd head coach in Pacific men's basketball history. This is his first season as the Tigers' head coach, following the last five seasons as the Tigers' associate head coach. Perry has head coaching experience as he was the head coach for five seasons at the University of Idaho. 
• With the win against Hawaii Hilo, Perry became the fifth coach in a row to pick up his first win within his first two games as the Tigers' head coach.
• 43.3% of minutes played and 46.8% of scoring return from the 2020-21 roster.
• Pacific will appear twice on national television as the matchup at No. 1 Gonzaga on Feb. 10 in the McCarthey Athletic Center was selected as one of the 12 games in the CBS Sports Network package with the West Coast Conference. The other contest is when the Tigers host BYU on Saturday, Jan. 29 in the Alex G. Spanos Center will be televised live on ESPNU.
• 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.

Note: To all fans who are planning on attending the game, masks are required at all times and proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of tip-off is needed prior to entry into the Alex G. Spanos Center.