San José State men’s basketball team will play against Boise State in the opening round of the Mountain West Tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center on March 10. The Spartans, seeded No. 11 with an overall record of 8-23 and a conference record of 3-17, will take on the No. 6 seed Broncos, who are 20-11 overall and 12-8 in conference play. The game is scheduled for Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. Pacific Time and will be available on Mountain West Network and KTRB 860 AM.
This matchup is significant as San José State aims to advance to the tournament quarterfinals for the third time in four seasons and secure back-to-back opening round wins. The Spartans are coming off an 88-78 loss to Wyoming and have lost their last three games. They have also lost both meetings with Boise State this season, falling 89-58 at home and 84-69 on the road, extending their losing streak against the Broncos to six games. Their last win over Boise State was a home overtime victory on February 25, 2023.
The teams previously met in the Mountain West Tournament’s opening round in 2014 as No. 6 vs. No. 11 seeds, with Boise State winning that contest as well. Last season, San José State defeated Wyoming in the tournament’s first round before being eliminated by New Mexico in the quarterfinals.
Colby Garland has been named to the Mountain West All-Third Team and is averaging 20.3 points per game, ranking second in the conference and twenty-seventh nationally. Garland has scored at least twenty points in his last ten games, marking the longest such streak for a Spartan since Olivier Saint-Jean’s fourteen-game run during the 1996–97 season.
Adrian Myers recently scored a career-high thirty-four points against Air Force, tying a program record by making eight three-pointers in a single game on just nine attempts—the fewest among those who share that record. Myers is averaging nineteen point three points and seven point four rebounds over his last seven games.
Melvin Bell Jr. stands out as the only Spartan to appear in every game this season and ranks second in conference minutes played during league contests, having played all forty minutes five times.
