The San José State men’s basketball team is set to play its final road game of the season against Fresno State at the Save Mart Center on Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time. The matchup will be available for viewing on the Mountain West Network and can be heard on KTRB 860 AM.
San José State enters the contest with an overall record of 8-21 and a conference record of 3-15 in the Mountain West, while Fresno State holds a 12-17 overall mark and is 6-12 in conference play.
The Spartans recently lost to Colorado State by a score of 85-73 but have secured two wins in their last four games, including victories over Nevada and Air Force. Earlier this season, San José State fell to Fresno State 70-55 at home, with Colby Garland playing only ten minutes in that game. Last year, however, San José State swept Fresno State for the first time since the 2008-09 season, which included a double-overtime win at Save Mart Center.
San José State has been effective from beyond the arc this season, shooting .365 from three-point range—ranking them 51st nationally. Over their last ten games, they are averaging 9.5 made threes per game on .386 shooting. The team also averages just 10.5 turnovers per game, which is second fewest in the Mountain West and ranks them 76th nationally.
Colby Garland was named Mountain West Player of the Week last week—the first Spartan to earn this honor since Omari Moore in February 2023. During his award-winning stretch, Garland led San José State to a split record and averaged 25.5 points, seven assists, and 2.5 rebounds per game while shooting nearly 56 percent from the field and over 44 percent from three-point range.
Garland’s scoring average stands at 19.9 points per game—second highest in the Mountain West and ranked No.33 nationally—and he has scored at least twenty points in each of his last eight games. This marks the longest such streak for a Spartan since Olivier Saint-Jean’s fourteen-game run during the 1996-97 season. Garland’s current average is also the highest for any Spartan since James Kinney’s performance during the 2012-13 campaign.
With his national ranking among scorers, Garland could join Ricky Berry, Olivier Saint-Jean, Adrian Oliver, and Richard Washington as one of only five players in program history to finish top fifty nationally in points per game for a season.
Garland has reached double figures in scoring in all but two games this year—including sixteen games with twenty or more points and two thirty-point outings—and ranks among conference leaders not only in scoring but also field goal percentage (fifth), assists per game (second), assists/turnover ratio (third), while shooting .494 from the field overall.
Adrian Myers recently posted a career-high thirty-four points against Air Force by hitting eleven-of-eighteen shots—including eight-of-nine from three-point range—which tied him for most threes made by a Spartan player in one game alongside Trey Smith and Noah Baumann; Myers achieved this feat on fewer attempts than either previous record-holder.
Myers is averaging over twenty points and six rebounds across his past five contests while leading San José State with eighteen blocks this season.
Other notable contributors include Melvin Bell Jr., who remains the only Spartan to appear in every game so far; Jermaine Washington averages more than two made threes per contest; Pasha Goodarzi sits eighth among conference players with an average of just over two threes made during league play while shooting above forty percent from deep; Sadraque NgaNga has contributed an average of eleven-and-a-half points per outing along with forty percent accuracy from long distance over his past ten appearances.
