The consistency of Colby Garland continues to shine for San Jose State (8-22, 3-16 MW).<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for the Spartans, the results around Garland remain stubbornly the same.<\/p>\n
Garland poured in a game-high 26 points. His ninth consecutive 20-plus performance, but San Jose State fell 82-68 to Fresno State (13-17, 7-12 MW) Tuesday night at the Save Mart Center in the Spartans\u2019 final road game before the Mountain West tournament.<\/p>\n
For long stretches, Garland was again the engine that kept San Jose State within reach. The junior guard shot an efficient 10-of-18 from the field while adding three assists; yet again playing the full 40 minutes.<\/p>\n
But while Garland delivered, Fresno State\u2019s early shooting barrage and the Spartans\u2019 struggles at the free-throw line proved too much to overcome.<\/p>\n
Fresno State seized control early behind a blistering first-half performance from beyond the arc; hitting 8 of 14 three-pointers (57%). The Bulldogs carried that momentum into a 45-34 half-time lead as SJSU struggled to contain perimeter looks while trying to keep pace offensively.<\/p>\n
Deshawn Gory led Fresno\u2019s balanced attack with 14 points, while Jake Heidbreder added 20 and Wilson Jacques dominated inside with 19 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Despite the deficit, the Spartans mounted a brief push in the second half.<\/p>\n
After Fresno opened the half with a double-digit lead, San Jose State answered with an 8-4 run sparked by Garland\u2019s second three-pointer, a Jermaine Washington triple, and an Adrian Myers dunk that briefly cut the margin to seven at 49-42.<\/p>\n
Myers finished with 17 points and an impressive 16 rebounds for another double-double effort, while also playing the full 40.<\/p>\n
But as it\u2019s been most of the season, each Spartan surge was met by a response that San Jose could not overcome.<\/p>\n
A controversial technical foul on Garland during one key second-half stretch halted momentum, and Fresno answered with free throws before Jac Mani\u2019s three-pointer pushed the Bulldogs back into comfortable territory midway through the half.<\/p>\n
San Jose State\u2019s biggest statistical obstacle came at the foul line. The Spartans entered the game shooting roughly 75% from the stripe but managed just 9-of-19 (47%) on this evening; even finding Garland looking bewildered after uncharacteristic free-throw misses.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the Bulldogs capitalized, converting 19-of-24 free throws while maintaining their edge from deep with 11 made threes overall.<\/p>\n
Even with San Jose State holding advantages in points in the paint (42-22) and forcing turnovers that led to 11 points, the Spartans could not erase the early deficit.<\/p>\n
A late Fresno three with just over two minutes remaining effectively sealed the outcome; stretching the lead to double digits again and sending the Bulldogs to their 10th home victory of the season while snapping a four-game skid.<\/p>\n
For San Jose State, the formula has become painfully familiar: Garland delivers, the Spartans compete in bursts, but defensive lapses, missed free throws and timely opponent shooting once again prove decisive.<\/p>\n
The Spartans face Wyoming at home Saturday afternoon for their final regular season game before the conference tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The consistency of Colby Garland continues to shine for San Jose State (8-22, 3-16 MW). Unfortunately for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,52380],"class_list":{"0":"post-203648","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-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203648","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=203648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}