{"id":207818,"date":"2026-03-06T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207818\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:01:07","slug":"spartans-to-host-senior-day-against-wyoming-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207818\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartans to Host Senior Day Against Wyoming &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211;\u00a0The San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s basketball team (8-22, 3-16 MW) will host Wyoming (17-13, 8-11 MW) at the Provident Credit Union Event Center on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. (PT) for Senior Day. 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><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 will celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/yaphet-moundi\" title=\"Yaphet Moundi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yaphet Moundi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/sadraque-nganga\" title=\"Sadraque NgaNga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sadraque NgaNga<\/a> for senior day<br \/>\nThe Spartans are coming off a 82-68 loss to Fresno State at the Save Mart Center<br \/>\nThe Spartans fell to Wyoming 66-62 at Arena-Auditorium earlier this season. After a go-ahead goaltending call for the Cowboys, SJSU failed to score with a chance to tie or take the lead in the final seconds of regulation<br \/>\nLast season, the Spartans won all three meetings against Wyoming, including a 66-61 victory in the first round of the Mountain West Tournament<br \/>\nThe Spartans are shooting .360 from three this season, the 72nd highest in the nation<br \/>\nThe Spartans are averaging 10.3 turnovers per game, the second fewest in the Mountain West and 57th in the nation<br \/>\nThe Spartans have had eight different players score 30 points or more in a game over the last three seasons<br \/>\nThe Spartans are locked into the 11 seed at the Mountain West Tournament and will face the six seed (either GCU, Nevada, CSU, Boise State or UNLV)<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> was named Mountain West Player of the Week on February 23, 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 20.1 points per game, ranking second in the Mountain West and 30th in the nation<br \/>\nGarland has scored 20 points or more in his last nine 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 30th 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 24 out of 26 games this season, 20+ in 17 games and 30 in two games<br \/>\nIn addition to being second in the conference in scoring, Garland is fourth in field goal percentage, third in assists per game, and third in assists\/turnover ratio<br \/>\nGarland is averaging 4.6 assists per game, the most for SJSU since <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/alvaro-cardenas\" title=\"Alvaro Cardenas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alvaro Cardenas<\/a> averaged 5.5 in 2023-24. Garland also leads in the MW in assists in conference play<br \/>\nGarland is shooting .497 from the field, .390 from three, and .837 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 19.7 points and 8.2 rebounds per game in his last six 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<\/p>\n<p>#AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211;\u00a0The San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s basketball team (8-22, 3-16 MW) will host Wyoming (17-13, 8-11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-207818","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\/207818","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=207818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}