{"id":170738,"date":"2026-02-09T19:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170738\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:26:46","slug":"spartans-to-face-unlv-on-the-road-on-fs1-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170738\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartans to Face UNLV on the Road on FS1 &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211;\u00a0The San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s basketball team (6-17, 1-11 MW) will face UNLV (11-12, 6-6 MW) at the Thomas &amp; Mack Center on Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. (PT). The game can be watched on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FS1<\/a>\u00a0and can be heard on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/860amtheanswer.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTRB 860 AM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025-26 Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Spartans have lost five in a row to UNLV after sweeping the Rebels in the 2022-23 season<br \/>\nThe Spartans fell 76-62 to UNLV earlier this season at the Provident Credit Union Event Center. However, the Spartans played without four starters in the game<br \/>\nIn their last outing, the Spartans were defeated by Colorado State 65-57. Three different Spartans played all 40 minutes in the game<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/colby-garland\" title=\"Colby Garland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colby Garland<\/a> is averaging 18.4 points per game, ranking third in the Mountain West and 76th in the nation<br \/>\nGarland is averaging the most points per game for the Spartans since <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/richard-washington\" title=\"Richard Washington\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Washington<\/a> averaged 19.5 in 2020-21<br \/>\nGarland has scored 20 points or more in both of his last two games<br \/>\nGarland broke the SJSU record for most free throws made consecutively with 37. The previous record for most free throws made consecutively was 31 set by Carroll Williams in 1955<br \/>\nThe Spartans have not won a true road game yet this season<br \/>\nThe Spartans have used 11 different starting lineups so far this season, including seven different starting lineups out in 12 conference games<br \/>\nThe Spartans have only turned the ball over nine times across their last two games<br \/>\nGarland scored 20+ in five consecutive games (12\/5-12\/30), joining <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/adrian-oliver\" title=\"Adrian Oliver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Oliver<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/josh-uduje\" title=\"Josh Uduje\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Uduje<\/a> as the only Spartans to have scored 20+ in five consecutive games since 2011<br \/>\nGarland has scored 10 or more points in 17 out of 19 games this season, 20+ in 10 games and 30 in two games<br \/>\nIn addition to being third in the conference in scoring, Garland is sixth in field goal percentage, fourth in assists per game, and fifth in assists\/turnover ratio<br \/>\nIn conference play, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/melvin-bell-jr\" title=\"Melvin Bell Jr.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melvin Bell Jr.<\/a> is averaging 11.8 points per game, the 18th best mark in the MW<br \/>\nBell scored a career-high 22 points against UNLV and has scored in double-figures in nine out of 11 conference games<br \/>\nBell is the only Spartan to play in every game this season<br \/>\nBell is second in the conference in minutes per game in conference play, three times playing all 40 minutes<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/jermaine-washington\" title=\"Jermaine Washington\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jermaine Washington<\/a> is the team&#8217;s leading three point shooter this season, knocking down 2.4 threes per game, good for the 5th most in the MW<br \/>\nWashington has made four threes in each of his last three games that he has played<br \/>\nWashington is averaging the second most minutes per game in the Mountain West this season. His averages of 11.9 points and 2.8 assists per game are big jumps from his freshman season where he averaged 4.4 ppg and 1.0 apg<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/pasha-goodarzi\" title=\"Pasha Goodarzi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pasha Goodarzi<\/a> is averaging 1.8 threes per game in conference play, the ninth most in the conference<br \/>\nGoodarzi is shooting .400 percent from three on the season<\/p>\n<p>#AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211;\u00a0The San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s basketball team (6-17, 1-11 MW) will face UNLV (11-12, 6-6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,996,998,997,999,1000,1001],"class_list":{"0":"post-170738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news","11":"tag-san-jose-state","12":"tag-san-jose-state-athletics","13":"tag-san-jose-state-spartans","14":"tag-sjsu","15":"tag-sjsu-spartans","16":"tag-spartans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}