Colby Garland led the San José State men’s basketball team with 26 points in an 82-68 loss to Fresno State on Tuesday night at the Save Mart Center. Adrian Myers contributed 17 points and set a career-high with 16 rebounds for the Spartans, who now hold an overall record of 8-22 and are 3-16 in Mountain West play. Fresno State improved to 13-17 overall and 7-12 in conference games.
Fresno State established an early advantage by shooting 57.1% from three-point range (8-for-14) in the first half, leading to a halftime score of 45-34. San José State managed to narrow the gap to five points with just under thirteen minutes remaining, but struggled at the free throw line, converting only nine of nineteen attempts for a rate of 47.4%. Fresno State took advantage of these missed opportunities and increased their lead late in the game, finishing ahead by as many as fifteen points.
Garland has scored at least twenty points in nine consecutive games, marking the longest such streak for a Spartan since Olivier Saint-Jean recorded fourteen straight games with twenty or more points during the 1996-97 season. Garland has reached this scoring mark seventeen times this season and twenty times over his career. He shot ten-for-eighteen from the field against Fresno State and added three assists.
Myers achieved his second double-double of both this season and his career, while his sixteen rebounds were the most by a Spartan since Robert Vaihola collected nineteen boards against Fresno State on March 8, 2025.
Melvin Bell Jr. also finished in double figures with ten points. Off the bench, Marcus Overstreet provided four points along with eight rebounds, two steals, and one block.
San José State outscored Fresno State in several categories: they held a forty-two to twenty-two edge in points scored inside the paint and an eleven-to-zero advantage in points off turnovers.
The Spartans will return home to face Wyoming on Saturday, March 6 at Provident Credit Union Event Center for Senior Day. The game is scheduled for a 2 p.m. tipoff and will be available on Mountain West Network.
