SAN JOSE, Calif. - The San José State men’s basketball team (6-16, 1-10 MW) will face Colorado State (12-10, 3-8 MW) at Moby Arena on Saturday at 6:00 p.m. (PT). The game can be watched on Mountain West Network and can be heard on KTRB 860 AM.
- The Spartans have lost four in a row to CSU after sweeping the Rams in the 2022-23 season
- The Spartans 78-70 victory over Colorado State on Dec. 31, 2022 is the only time they have defeated the Rams on the road
- Head Coach Tim Miles was the Head Coach at Colorado State from 2008-13, going 71-88 across five seasons in Fort Collins
- Rams' Head Coach Ali Farokhmanesh began his coaching career at Nebraska under Tim Miles as a grad assistent and then Director of Player Relations and Development from 2014-17
- The Spartans fell to New Mexico 90-80 at home in their last game. SJSU is 1-11 in their last 12 games
- The Spartans have not won a true road game yet this season
- The Spartans have used 11 different starting lineups so far this season, including seven different starting lineups out in 11 conference games
- Colby Garland is averaging 18.2 points per game, ranking second in the Mountain West and 81st in the nation
- Garland broke the SJSU record for most free throws made consecutively with 37. The previous record for most free throws made consecutively was 31 set by Carroll Williams in 1955
- Garland scored 20+ in five consecutive games (12/5-12/30), joining Adrian Oliver and Josh Uduje as the only Spartans to have scored 20+ in five consecutive games since 2011
- Garland has scored 10 or more points in 16 out of 18 games this season, 20+ in nine games and 30 in two games
- In addition to being second in the conference in scoring, Garland is sixth in field goal percentage and fourth in assists per game
- Garland is the first Spartan to score 30 points or more multiple times in a season since Richard Washington in 2020-21
- In conference play, Melvin Bell Jr. is averaging 12.3 points per game, the 16th best mark in the MW
- Bell scored a career-high 22 points against UNLV and has scored in double-figures in nine out of 11 conference games
- Bell is the only Spartan to play in every game this season
- Jermaine Washington is the team's leading three point shooter this season, knocking down 2.4 threes per game, good for the fifth most in the MW
- Washington has made four threes in each of his last three games
- Washington is averaging the second most minutes per game in the Mountain West this season. His averages of 11.9 points and 2.8 assists per game are big jumps from his freshman season where he averaged 4.4 ppg and 1.0 apg
- Pasha Goodarzi is averaging 1.8 threes per game in conference play, the eighth most in the conference
- Goodarzi is shooting .406 percent from three on the season
- In his last five games, Marcus Overstreet is averaging 5.8 points and 5.2 rebounds per game
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