Hint: It’s not Fireside Fieldhouse, home of the Pepperdine Waves, or McKeon Pavilion, the place where Saint Mary’s rarely loses, especially to BYU.
“Well, it is all based on one thing,” Rose said. “You can figure out my favorite gym. It’s the one we win the most in. The Marriott Center is my favorite gym, obviously, because we win the most in there. But you can go right down the road and try to figure out the gyms I like the most and the gyms I don’t like.”
Pepperdine hosts BYU on Thursday night at Firestone, which was Rose’s personal House of Horrors until last year when the Cougars snapped a four-game losing skid on the cliffs above Malibu with a 75-70 overtime win.