{"id":177044,"date":"2026-02-13T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177044\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:44:07","slug":"spartans-to-host-blackout-game-against-grand-canyon-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177044\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartans to Host Blackout Game Against Grand Canyon &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211;\u00a0The San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s basketball team (6-18, 1-12 MW) will host Grand Canyon (15-9, 8-5 MW) at the Provident Credit Union Event Center on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. (PT). The game can be watched on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain West Network<\/a>\u00a0and can be heard on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/860amtheanswer.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTRB 860 AM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Spartans&#8217; blackout game, all fans in attendance are encouraged to wear black clothing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.evenue.net\/events\/SGMB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025-26 Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Spartans faced Grand Canyon in the first ever meeting between the two schools in January in a 76-58 loss at the Global Credit Union Arena<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/ben-roseborough\" title=\"Ben Roseborough\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Roseborough<\/a> scored 23 points and <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> scored 17 in the Spartans&#8217; previous meeting against the Lopes. Neither <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/colby-garland\" title=\"Colby Garland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colby Garland<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/jermaine-washington\" title=\"Jermaine Washington\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jermaine Washington<\/a> played in the game<br \/>\nIn their last outing, the Spartans were defeated by 82-75. <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/pasha-goodarzi\" title=\"Pasha Goodarzi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pasha Goodarzi<\/a> scored a career-high 21 points in the game and Garland scored 20+ for the third consecutive game<br \/>\nGarland is averaging 18.6 points per game, ranking second in the Mountain West and 67th 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 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 used 11 different starting lineups so far this season, including seven different starting lineups out in 13 conference games<br \/>\nThe Spartans have turned the ball over seven or less times in three consecutive 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 18 out of 20 games this season, 20+ in 11 games and 30 in two games<br \/>\nIn addition to being second in the conference in scoring, Garland is seventh in field goal percentage, fourth in assists per game, and fifth in assists\/turnover ratio<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\/adrian-myers\" title=\"Adrian Myers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Myers<\/a> leads the Spartans in blocks with 14 on the season, including a career-high three blocks against SDSU<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 \/>\nGoodarzi is averaging 1.9 threes per game in conference play, the ninth most in the conference<br \/>\nGoodarzi is shooting .403 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 (6-18, 1-12 MW) will host Grand Canyon (15-9,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-177044","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177044","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=177044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}