{"id":201041,"date":"2026-03-02T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201041\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:37:12","slug":"spartans-head-to-fresno-state-for-final-road-contest-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201041\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartans Head to Fresno State for Final Road Contest &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211;\u00a0The San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s basketball team (8-21, 3-15 MW) will face Fresno State (12-17, 6-12 MW) at the Save Mart Center on Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. (PT). The game can be watched on <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><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025-26 Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Spartans are coming off a 85-73 loss to Colorado State at the Provident Credit Union Event Center, but have won two of their last four with wins over Nevada and Air Force<br \/>\nThe Spartans fell to Fresno State 70-55 in San Jose earlier this season. <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/colby-garland\" title=\"Colby Garland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colby Garland<\/a> only played 10 minutes in the game<br \/>\nLast season, the Spartans swept Fresno State for the first time since 2008-09. The Spartans defeated Fresno State at the Save Mart Center in a 94-91 double overtime game last season<br \/>\nThe Spartans are shooting .365 from three this season, the 51st highest in the nation<br \/>\nThe Spartans are averaging 9.5 threes per game on .386 shooting in their last 10 games<br \/>\nThe Spartans are averaging 10.5 turnovers per game, the second fewest in the Mountain West and 76th in the nation<br \/>\nGarland was named Mountain West Player of the Week last week, becoming the first Spartan to receive the award since <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/omari-moore\" title=\"Omari Moore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Omari Moore<\/a> in February, 2023<br \/>\nIn 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<br \/>\nGarland is averaging 19.9 points per game, ranking second in the Mountain West and 33rd in the nation<br \/>\nGarland has scored 20 points or more in his last eight games, the longest streak for the Spartans since Olivier Saint-Jean who had a 14 game streak in 1996-97<br \/>\nGarland is averaging the most points per game for the Spartans since <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/james-kinney\" title=\"James Kinney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Kinney<\/a> averaged 20.6 in 2012-13<br \/>\nAt 33rd in the nation, Garland is on track to join Ricky Berry, Olivier Saint-Jean, <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\/richard-washington\" title=\"Richard Washington\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Washington<\/a> as the only players to finish a season top-50 nationally in points per game in SJSU history<br \/>\nGarland has scored 10 or more points in 23 out of 25 games this season, 20+ in 16 games and 30 in two games<br \/>\nIn addition to being second in the conference in scoring, Garland is fifth in field goal percentage, second in assists per game, and third in assists\/turnover ratio<br \/>\nGarland is shooting .494 from the field, .385 from three, and .858 from the line this season<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> scored a career-high 34 points on 11-of-18 shooting, knocking down 8-of-9 from beyond the arc at Air Force<br \/>\nMyers&#8217; eight threes tied the SJSU single game three point record, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/trey-smith\" title=\"Trey Smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Smith<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/noah-baumann\" title=\"Noah Baumann\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Baumann<\/a> as the only Spartans to make eight threes in a game in program history<br \/>\nOf those three players, Myers made eight threes on the fewest attempts<br \/>\nMyers is averaging 20.2 points and 6.6 rebounds per game and shooting .514 from three in his last five games<br \/>\nMyers leads the Spartans in blocks with 18 on the season<br \/>\n<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 the only Spartan to play in every game this season<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 knocking down 2.3 threes per game<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 2.1 threes per game in conference play, the eighth most in the conference<br \/>\nGoodarzi is shooting .407 percent from three on the season<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/sadraque-nganga\" title=\"Sadraque NgaNga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sadraque NgaNga<\/a> is averaging 11.5 points per game and shooting .405 from three in his last 10 games<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">#AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211;\u00a0The San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s basketball team (8-21, 3-15 MW) will face Fresno State (12-17,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-201041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201041","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=201041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}