| San José State (12-8, 3-4 MW) vs. Air Force (12-8, 3-4 MW) | |
| When | Tuesday, January 24 | 7 p.m. PT |
| Location | Provident Credit Union Event Center | San Jose, Calif. |
| Broadcast & Statistics | NBC Sports Bay Area (local only) Channels - Xfinity 40; Xfinity HD 720; DirecTV 696 Mountain West Network KTRB 860 AM Live Stats |
| Game Notes | San José State | Air Force |
| Rosters | San José State | Air Force |
Spartans host Air Force Tuesday and @CoachMiles previews the matchup. #AllSpartans | #RunToTheFight pic.twitter.com/PxFkwqy9R0
— San Jose State Men's Basketball (@SanJoseStateMBB) January 23, 2023
After a week on the road, the San José State men's basketball team returns to the friendly confines of the Provident Credit Union for a Mountain West match-up with Air Force Tuesday evening. Both teams bring in identical 12-8 overall and 3-4 MW records to the game. The teams are tied for sixth place in the MW standings along with Fresno State. SJSU fell at Utah State, 75-74, on a last-second shot, while Air Force fell to San Diego State, 70-60, on Saturday.
MARCH TO MARCH MINI-PLAN: The Spartans have a special 6-game mini-plan available to buy. Buy your tickets and come support your Spartans inside the Provident Credit Union Event Center. For more information and to buy the mini-plan, click here.
SUITS AND SNEAKERS WEEK: In conjunction with the NABC's Coaches vs. Cancer program, the San José State men's basketball program will participate in Suits and Sneakers Week. Coaches will be wearing adidas NMD shoes.
ABOUT AIR FORCE: The Falcons enter Tuesday night's game with the exact same record as the Spartans, 12-8 overall and 3-4 in the MW. The team fell at home to San Diego State, 70-60, this past Saturday night. Head coach Joe Scott is in his third year of his second stint at the helm of the Air Force program.
Series Record - 9-13
Last Two SJSU Wins in Series - The Spartans won both meetings during the COVID season when the team moved operations to Phoenix because of restrictions in Santa Clara County.
Last 10 Series Meetings
3/3/2018 L 93-61 USAFA
1/26/2019 L-2OT 73-71 San Jose
2/23/2019 L 82-68 USAFA
3/13/2019 L 87-56 Las Vegas
1/25/2020 W 90-81 San Jose
2/15/2020 L 95-86 USAFA
1/28/2021 W 59-58 Phoenix
1/30/2021 W 75-62 Phoenix
1/25/2022 L 63-53 San Jose
3/1/2022 L 58-54 USFA
CONSISTENCY IN STARTING LINEUP: This season, the Spartans have used the same lineup for all 20 games. This is a change from past years when San José State used 13 different starting lineups for the 2021-22 season.
Spartan Starting Lineup -Alvaro Cardenas, Omari Moore, Trey Anderson, Sage Tolbert III & Ibrahima Diallo
San José State is just one of nine teams nationwide to use the same starting lineup for every game this season (thru 1/22/23).
Cornell Louisiana Princeton
Gonzaga Marquette Rice
Hawaii Marshall San José State
GÖRENER BRINGS A LIFT OFF THE BENCH AT AGGIES: At Utah State, Tibet Görener came off the bench to lead the Spartans in scoring with a season-best 20 points. He was 7-of-11 from the field, making a career-best 6 three-pointers. He also grabbed two rebounds in 28 minutes of action.
JANUARY FREEZE: Usually, the January deep freeze happens in Canada during the winter months. Unfortunately, the month of January has not been nice to the Spartans as the team is just 1-4 in the month with two games remaining. The team is averaging just 61.8 points per game and shooting just under 30 percent from three-point range.
On the positive side, Omari Moore is averaging 17.4 points and 4.8 rebounds per game. He became the 16th Spartans in school history to score 1,000 career points as he scored 24 points in the loss at New Mexico. He and Alvaro Cardenas have dished out 29 and 25 assists respectively, while Ibrahima Diallo has blocked eight shots.
DISHING OUT THE ROCK: The Spartan duo of Omari Moore and Alvaro Cardenas are two of the best to dish out the ball during Mountain West play. Moore has 41 assists in six games, the second-most in conference play. He has dished out five or more assists in six of the seven MW games played. Cardenas has 29 assists in the seven games, tying for the the sixth-highest total as he dished out nine assists in the win over Fresno State.
SJSU LOOKING FOR 4TH MW WIN: With three wins in the early part of the Mountain West season, the Spartans are looking for their fourth MW win. This feat has not been not accomplished since the 2016-17 season when the team went 7-11. The 2015-16 team finished 4-14 in the MW as the only other team to win more than three conference games since SJSU joined the MW in 2013-14.
UP NEXT: The Spartans travel to Southern California to face San Diego State Saturday night at 6 p.m., inside Viejas Arena. Fans can watch the game on FS1.