San Jose State Spartans (7-19, 2-13 MWC) at Boise State Broncos (15-11, 7-8 MWC)<\/p>\n
Boise, Idaho; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: San Jose State visits Boise State after Colby Garland scored 29 points in San Jose State\u2019s 87-71 victory against the Nevada Wolf Pack.<\/p>\n
The Broncos are 9-4 in home games. Boise State is fifth in the MWC scoring 78.4 points while shooting 45.0% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Spartans are 2-13 in MWC play. San Jose State is 5-13 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n
Boise State\u2019s average of 8.4 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.7 more made shots on average than the 7.7 per game San Jose State gives up. San Jose State\u2019s 42.9% shooting percentage from the field this season is 3.5 percentage points lower than Boise State has given up to its opponents (46.4%).<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time in conference play this season. Boise State won the last matchup 89-58 on Jan. 28. Drew Fielder scored 16 points points to help lead the Broncos to the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Fielder is shooting 53.6% and averaging 14.0 points for the Broncos. Dylan Andrews is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Garland is averaging 19.3 points and 4.5 assists for the Spartans. Pasha Goodarzi is averaging 10.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Broncos: 6-4, averaging 82.0 points, 30.3 rebounds, 15.0 assists, 5.0 steals and 2.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Spartans: 2-8, averaging 68.4 points, 24.4 rebounds, 10.8 assists, 4.9 steals and 1.8 blocks per game while shooting 41.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.2 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose State Spartans (7-19, 2-13 MWC) at Boise State Broncos (15-11, 7-8 MWC) Boise, Idaho; Saturday, 4…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[689,13621,7,4213,1327,9222,74667,87604,569,540,24795,4155,72894,88,90,89,997,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-185920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-boise","9":"tag-boise-state-broncos","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-college-sports","13":"tag-data-skrive","14":"tag-drew-fielder","15":"tag-dylan-andrews","16":"tag-id-state-wire","17":"tag-idaho","18":"tag-mens-college-basketball","19":"tag-nevada-wolf-pack","20":"tag-pasha-goodarzi","21":"tag-san-jose","22":"tag-san-jose-headlines","23":"tag-san-jose-news","24":"tag-san-jose-state-spartans","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185920","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=185920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}