SAN JOSE, Calif. - The San José State men’s basketball team (8-21, 3-15 MW) will face Fresno State (12-17, 6-12 MW) at the Save Mart Center on Tuesday 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 are coming off a 85-73 loss to Colorado State at the Provident Credit Union Event Center, but have won two of their last four with wins over Nevada and Air Force
- The Spartans fell to Fresno State 70-55 in San Jose earlier this season. Colby Garland only played 10 minutes in the game
- Last season, the Spartans swept Fresno State for the first time since 2008-09. The Spartans defeated Fresno State at the Save Mart Center in a 94-91 double overtime game last season
- The Spartans are shooting .365 from three this season, the 51st highest in the nation
- The Spartans are averaging 9.5 threes per game on .386 shooting in their last 10 games
- The Spartans are averaging 10.5 turnovers per game, the second fewest in the Mountain West and 76th in the nation
- Garland was named Mountain West Player of the Week last week, becoming the first Spartan to receive the award since Omari Moore in February, 2023
- In his POTW campaign, Garland led the Spartans to a 1-1 record, 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 19.9 points per game, ranking second in the Mountain West and 33rd in the nation
- Garland has scored 20 points or more in his last eight games, the longest streak for the Spartans since Olivier Saint-Jean who 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 33rd 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
- Garland has scored 10 or more points in 23 out of 25 games this season, 20+ in 16 games and 30 in two games
- In addition to being second in the conference in scoring, Garland is fifth in field goal percentage, second in assists per game, and third in assists/turnover ratio
- Garland is shooting .494 from the field, .385 from three, and .858 from the line this season
- 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 20.2 points and 6.6 rebounds per game and shooting .514 from three in his last five games
- Myers leads the Spartans in blocks with 18 on the season
- Melvin Bell Jr. is the only Spartan to play in every game this season
- Jermaine Washington is knocking down 2.3 threes per game
- Pasha Goodarzi is averaging 2.1 threes per game in conference play, the eighth most in the conference
- Goodarzi is shooting .407 percent from three on the season
- Sadraque NgaNga is averaging 11.5 points per game and shooting .405 from three in his last 10 games
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