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By STEVE HENSON
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PEPPERDINE (5-2) at UC SANTA BARBARA (1-4), 7 p.m.--Pepperdine is coming off victories over Wichita State and Cal State Fullerton after losing at Kansas. Pepperdine’s scoring is balanced, with the front line of Kelvin Gibbs, Tommie Prince and Nick Sheppard complemented by the outside shooting of Brandon Armstrong and Tezale Archie. Armstrong, a sophomore who sat out last season under Prop. 48, is the biggest surprise, averaging a team-high 15 points. The Gauchos defeated Westmont, an NAIA school, 73-57, Saturday for their first victory.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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