SAN JOSE, Calif. - The No. 11 seed San José State men’s basketball team (8-23, 3-17 MW) will face the No. 6 seed Boise State (20-11, 12-8 MW) in the opening round of the Mountain West Tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. (PT). The game can be watched on Mountain West Network and can be heard on KTRB 860 AM.
- The Spartans are coming off a 88-78 loss to Wyoming at the Provident Credit Union Event Center and have lost three in a row
- The Spartans lost to Boise State in both meeting this season, 89-58 at home and 84-69 on the road
- The Spartans are on a six game losing streak to the Broncos. Their last win over BSU came on Feb. 25, 2023 in a 74-68 OT victory at home
- The Spartans last played Boise State in the Mountain West Tournament in 2014, also in the #6 vs. #11 seed matchup in the opening round. The Broncos took the game 83-52
- The Spartans are looking to play in the MW Tournament Quarterfinals for the third time in the last four seasons and win in the tournament's opening round in back-to-back seasons
- The #8 Spartans defeated #9 Wyoming 66-61 in last seasons MW Tournament opening round before falling to #1 New Mexico in the quarterfinals 63-52
- The Spartans are shooting .358 from three this season, the 79th highest in the nation
- The Spartans are averaging 10.1 turnovers per game, the second fewest in the Mountain West and 48th in the nation
- Colby Garland was named Mountain West All-Third Team
- Garland is averaging 20.3 points per game, ranking second in the Mountain West and 27th in the nation
- Garland has scored 20 points or more in his last 10 games, the longest streak for the Spartans since Olivier Saint-Jean had a 14 game streak in 1996-97
- Garland is averaging the most points per game for the Spartans since James Kinney averaged 20.6 in 2012-13
- At 27th 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 nationally in points per game in SJSU history
- In addition to being second in the conference in scoring, Garland is fourth in field goal percentage, third in assists per game, and third 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 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 is averaging 19.3 points and 7.4 rebounds per game in his last seven games
- 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, five times playing all 40 minutes
- Jermaine Washington is knocking down 2.2 threes per game
- Sadraque NgaNga is averaging 10.3 points per game and shooting .378 from three since Jan. 24
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