SAN JOSE, Calif. - The San José State men’s basketball team (8-20, 3-14 MW) will host Colorado State (18-10, 9-8 MW) at the Provident Credit Union Event Center on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. (PT). The game can be watched on Mountain West Network and can be heard on KTRB 860 AM.
- The Spartans have lost five in a row to CSU after sweeping the Rams in the 2022-23 season
- The Spartans fell to Colorado State 65-57 earlier this season at Moby Arena
- The Spartans have used 15 different starting lineups so far this season, including 11 different starting lineups out in 17 conference games
- The Spartans are shooting .366 from three this season, the 51st highest in the nation
- The Spartans are averaging 9.8 threes per game on .391 shooting in their last nine games
- The Spartans are averaging 10.6 turnovers per game, the second fewest in the Mountain West and 93rd in the nation
- The Spartans have had eight different players score 30 points or more in a game over the last three seasons
- Colby Garland was named Mountain West Player of the Week on Monday, becoming the first Spartan to receive the award since Omari Moore in February, 2023
- Garland led the Spartans to a 1-1 record on last week, including a 16 point win over Nevada. Garland averaged 25.5 points, seven assists and 2.5 rebounds per game, while shooting 55.9 percent (19-for-34) from the field and 44.4 percent (4-of-9) from long range
- Garland is averaging 19.5 points per game, ranking second in the Mountain West and 45th in the nation
- Garland is averaging the most points per game for the Spartans since Richard Washington averaged 19.5 in 2020-21
- At 46th in the nation, Garland is on track to join Ricky Berry, Olivier Saint-Jean, Adrian Oliver and Richard Washington as the only players to finish a season top-50 in the nation in points per game in SJSU history
- Garland has scored 20 or more in seven straight games. The last Spartan to score 20+ in eight straight games was Olivier Saint-Jean in the 1996-97 season
- Garland has scored 10 or more points in 22 out of 24 games this season, 20+ in 15 games and 30 in two games
- In addition to being second in the conference in scoring, Garland is seventh in field goal percentage, fourth in assists per game, and fourth in assists/turnover ratio
- Adrian Myers scored a career-high 34 points on 11-of-18 shooting, knocking down 8-of-9 from beyond the arc in the Spartans last game at Air Force
- Myers' eight threes tied the SJSU single game three point record, joining Trey Smith and Noah Baumann as the only Spartans to make eight threes in a game in program history
- Of those three players, Myers made eight threes on the fewest attempts
- Myers' 34 was the most points scored in a game for the Spartans since Richard Washington scored 35 against Colorado State on Jan. 14, 2021
- Myers has now scored 20 or more points in three consecutive games, averaging 26 points and 9.3 rebounds per game in that span
- Melvin Bell Jr. is the only Spartan to play in every game this season
- Bell is second in the conference in minutes per game in conference play
- Jermaine Washington is knocking down 2.4 threes per game
- Pasha Goodarzi is averaging 2.1 threes per game in conference play, the ninth most in the conference
- Goodarzi is shooting .407 percent from three on the season
- Goodarzi has made multiple threes in six consecutive games
- Sadraque NgaNga is averaging 11.6 points per game and shooting .400 from three in his last nine games
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