SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San José State men’s basketball team (8-20, 3-14 MW) will host Colorado State (18-10, 9-8 MW) at the Provident Credit Union Event Center on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. (PT). The game can be watched on Mountain West Network and can be heard on KTRB 860 AM.
The Spartans have lost five in a row to CSU after sweeping the Rams in the 2022-23 season
The Spartans fell to Colorado State 65-57 earlier this season at Moby Arena
The Spartans have used 15 different starting lineups so far this season, including 11 different starting lineups out in 17 conference games
The Spartans are shooting .366 from three this season, the 51st highest in the nation
The Spartans are averaging 9.8 threes per game on .391 shooting in their last nine games
The Spartans are averaging 10.6 turnovers per game, the second fewest in the Mountain West and 93rd in the nation
The Spartans have had eight different players score 30 points or more in a game over the last three seasons
Colby Garland was named Mountain West Player of the Week on Monday, becoming the first Spartan to receive the award since Omari Moore in February, 2023
Garland led the Spartans to a 1-1 record on last week, 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 19.5 points per game, ranking second in the Mountain West and 45th in the nation
Garland is averaging the most points per game for the Spartans since Richard Washington averaged 19.5 in 2020-21
At 46th 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 in the nation in points per game in SJSU history
Garland has scored 20 or more in seven straight games. The last Spartan to score 20+ in eight straight games was Olivier Saint-Jean in the 1996-97 season
Garland has scored 10 or more points in 22 out of 24 games this season, 20+ in 15 games and 30 in two games
In addition to being second in the conference in scoring, Garland is seventh in field goal percentage, fourth in assists per game, and fourth 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 in the Spartans last game 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’ 34 was the most points scored in a game for the Spartans since Richard Washington scored 35 against Colorado State on Jan. 14, 2021
Myers has now scored 20 or more points in three consecutive games, averaging 26 points and 9.3 rebounds per game in that span
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
Jermaine Washington is knocking down 2.4 threes per game
Pasha Goodarzi is averaging 2.1 threes per game in conference play, the ninth most in the conference
Goodarzi is shooting .407 percent from three on the season
Goodarzi has made multiple threes in six consecutive games
Sadraque NgaNga is averaging 11.6 points per game and shooting .400 from three in his last nine games
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