No. 7/9 Nevada takes on longtime rival Pacific Friday
• After opening the season with a 86-70 victory over BYU, Nevada looks to make it two in row to start the season hosting Pacific (1-0) on Friday at 7 p.m.  
• The Wolf Pack is ranked seventh in the preseason AP Poll.  The highest ranking in school history.  The Pack is ninth in the preseason USA Today Coaches Poll.
• Caleb Martin is Nevada's first preseason All-America selection being named to the AP and ESPN teams.
• Jordan Caroline posted his 28th career double-double, tied for sixth most in school history in the BYU win, finishing with games with 25 points and 16 rebounds.  The 16 rebounds tied his career high.  The Pack is 26-2 when Caroline has a double-double  
• An veteran group, Nevada started five seniors in Caroline, Caleb Martin, Cody Martin, Tre'Shawn Thurman and Trey Porter in the BYU game.
• In the BYU game, for the first time at Nevada the Martin twins did no score in a first half.  Caleb Martin scored 21 points after halftime but Cody Martin did not score.  Cody Martin did tie his career high with 11 assists and also grabbed seven rebounds. 

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LAYUPS

Nevada head coach Eric Musselman is now 4-0 in home openers after the win over BYU.

Jordan Caroline posted his 28th career double-double in win over BYU finishing with 25 points and 16 rebounds.  The 16 rebounds tied his career high.

Caroline's 1,205 points at Nevada is 20th in school history and he is eight from moving into 19th.  Collegiately he has scored 1,508 points.

Caleb Martin scored all 21 of his points in the second half in the BYU game.  

For the first time in his Pack career Cody Martin did not score in the BYU game but tied his career high with 11 assists.

For the first time in their Nevada careers the Martin twins did not score a point in the first half in the BYU game.

Caleb Martin was the 2017-18 MW Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year while twin brother Cody Martin was the MW Defensive Player of the Year.  Caleb Martin is the 2018-19 MW preseason Player of the Year.

Caleb Martin, Cody Martin and Jordan Caroline were selected to the 2018-19 MW preseason team

Nevada is the preseason favorite to win a third consecutive MW regular season championship in 2018-19.   

Nevada became just the second Mountain West school to capture back-to-back outright regular season conference titles.  The other school was BYU.  No school has won three consecutive outright MW titles.

Freshman Jordan Brown is the first five star recruit in Nevada history and second McDonalds American.

Fourth-year coach Eric Musselman has won 24, 28 and 29 games in his first three years.  He joins Mark Fox as the only Wolf Pack coaches to win 20 or more games three consecutive seasons.

Musselman earned Mountain West, USBWA District VIII and NABC District 17 Coach of the Year honors after leading the Pack to 29 wins last season.

Caroline's1,508 points), Caleb Martin (1,251 points), Tre'Shawn Thurman (1,169 points), Corey Henson (1,156 points), and Nisré Zouzoua (1,030points),  
have scored over 1,000 career points in their collegiate careers.   All five began their careers at other schools.

Nevada started five seniors in the BYU game; Caroline, the Martin twins, Trey Porter and Tre'Shawn Thurman.  

Four scholarship transfers who sat out last season will join the team in Thurman (13.8 ppg, 7.8 rpg), Henson (14.6 ppg), Zouzoua (20.3 ppg), and Johnson (15.8 ppg).  The quartet all averaged 13 or more points at their previous schools.  Joining them is graduate transfer Trey Porter who averaged 13.2 points, 6.2 rebounds and 1.3 blocks at Old Dominion and is immediately eligible to play.

Nevada has won 20 or more games in 11 of the last 15 seasons.

In eight weeks the Pack appeared in the top 25 last season including the last six weeks of the season and ended the year at No. 20 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.

The Wolf Pack is 43-5 at Lawlor Events Center under head coach Eric Musselman, 32-2 in its last 34 home games and 36-3 in its last 39.   Overall Musselman is 39-15 in MW play, 22-5 at home and 17-10 on the road.   

Nevada is 43-14 under Musselman in non-conference play and 22-0 at home in non-conference games.  He is 21-14 away from Reno in non-conference games, 8-7 in true road games and 13-7 in neutral games.

Nevada will play neutral site games vs. Arizona State on Dec. 7 in the Basketball Hall of Fame Classic at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.  Nevada will face Grand Canyon in the first-ever Jerry Colangelo Classic at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix on Dec. 9.  

The Wolf Pack will play three Pac-12 opponents this season Arizona State in a neutral site games, at USC and at Utah.

Eight of Nevada's non-conference opponents had an RPI in the top 100 last season with Loyola Chicago (14), USC (37), Utah (40) and South Dakota State (48) in the top 50.  Six teams earned postseaon bids with Loyola Chicago, ASU, and South Dakota State competing in the NCAA Tournament.  Utah, BYU, and USC were in the NIT with the Utes falling in the title game.  Eight schools won 20 or more games; Loyola Chicago (32), South Dakota State (28), BYU (24), USC (24), Utah (23), GCU (22), SIU (20) and ASU (20).  The Rambers won 32 games on the way to the Final Four.

The Pack travels to Loyola Chicago on Nov. 27 for a rematch of the Sweet 16 game won by the Ramblers 69-68 in Atlanta last season.  The rematch is part of the 2018 Challenge Series that matches teams from the Mountain West and Missouri Valley Conference.