SAN JOSE, Calif. - The San José State men’s basketball team (8-22, 3-16 MW) will host Wyoming (17-13, 8-11 MW) at the Provident Credit Union Event Center on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. (PT) for Senior Day. The game can be watched on Mountain West Network and can be heard on KTRB 860 AM.
- The Spartans will celebrate Yaphet Moundi and Sadraque NgaNga for senior day
- The Spartans are coming off a 82-68 loss to Fresno State at the Save Mart Center
- The Spartans fell to Wyoming 66-62 at Arena-Auditorium earlier this season. After a go-ahead goaltending call for the Cowboys, SJSU failed to score with a chance to tie or take the lead in the final seconds of regulation
- Last season, the Spartans won all three meetings against Wyoming, including a 66-61 victory in the first round of the Mountain West Tournament
- The Spartans are shooting .360 from three this season, the 72nd highest in the nation
- The Spartans are averaging 10.3 turnovers per game, the second fewest in the Mountain West and 57th in the nation
- The Spartans have had eight different players score 30 points or more in a game over the last three seasons
- The Spartans are locked into the 11 seed at the Mountain West Tournament and will face the six seed (either GCU, Nevada, CSU, Boise State or UNLV)
- Colby Garland was named Mountain West Player of the Week on February 23, 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 20.1 points per game, ranking second in the Mountain West and 30th in the nation
- Garland has scored 20 points or more in his last nine 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 30th 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 24 out of 26 games this season, 20+ in 17 games and 30 in two games
- 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
- Garland is averaging 4.6 assists per game, the most for SJSU since Alvaro Cardenas averaged 5.5 in 2023-24. Garland also leads in the MW in assists in conference play
- Garland is shooting .497 from the field, .390 from three, and .837 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 19.7 points and 8.2 rebounds per game in his last six 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
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