Pepperdine Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:40:20 PDT

Rarely does a team that loses 21 games and goes through a season of turmoil have a promising future, but that is the case for the Waves.

The Waves are a team loaded with talented freshmen, who weathered the unexpected resignation of their coach at midseason, and actually improved under interim coach Eric Bridgeland.

Now they head into next season knowing that their new head coach, Tom Asbury, has a history of success at Pepperdine, having led the Waves to three NCAA Tournament berths in his six seasons as the Waves coach from 1989 through 1994.

Bridgeland should get credit for keeping this team competitive in light of the coaching change and the departure of three key players immediately after Vance Walberg quit the job midway through his second season as...