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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