Around the WCC

Santa Clara’s Travis Niesen, a 6-foot-7 senior forward, has been the named the WCC’s player of the week after averaging 23.5 and 8.5 rebounds in wins over UC Riverside and Bucknell in the Broncos’ Cable Car Classic… . The WCC is ranked No. 10 among the nation’s 32 Division I conferences in the latest Collegiate Men’s Basketball RPI report… . The league’s eight teams are a combined 50-51 against all opponents. That breaks down to 36-12 at home, 9-31 on the road and 5-8 on neutral courts… . Pepperdine’s Tashaan Forehan-Kelly has improved his scoring and rebounding averages from 1.2 and 0.6 last season to 14.6 and 6.2 this year… . Loyola Marymount, under first-year head coach Rodney Tention, opened the season with an impressive 83-71 road win over BYU, but has lost 11 of 13 since then, including the last five in row.