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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