Nevada at Boise State
March 7, 2009
Game Notes:
- With the 69-60 win at Boise State on Saturday night, Nevada ends the regular season 19-11 overall and 11-5 in WAC play. The team has won its last three games and six of its last seven.
- The Wolf Pack finishes in second place in the WAC and has earned the No. 2 seed in next week’s WAC Tournament. Nevada will play seventh-seeded San Jose State in the WAC Tournament quarterfinals at 6 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, March 12. Thursday’s game can be heard on Nevada’s radio flagship, ESPN 630 AM, and its radio affiliates throughout the state with Ryan Radtke calling the action.
- Nevada also won for the 35th time in its last 55 road games and is now 32-10 in WAC road games since the start of the 2004-05 season. That includes a 6-2 WAC road record this season.
- Junior Brandon Fields led the team in scoring for the second consecutive game, turning in 19 points on 4-of-8 shooting from the field and 8-of-10 shooting from the free throw line. It was also the seventh time this season that Fields has led the team in scoring.
- Fields has averaged 18.3 points per game and has shot 69.6 percent from the field (16-23) and 85.7 percent from the free throw line (18-21) in the last three contests.
- Freshman Luke Babbitt added 14 points, while sophomore Malik Cooke had 13.
- Babbitt led the team with eight rebounds, the 17th time this year that he has paced the team in the category, while Cooke and freshman Dario Hunt each pulled down seven rebounds.
- Hunt also finished with eight points, one shy of his career high, on 4-of-4 shooting from the field.
- Nevada tied Boise State in rebounding with 38 boards, just the second time in the last 19 games that Nevada has not outrebounded its opponent.
