Winners of the last two MW Titles No. 5/6 Nevada hosts Utah State to begin conference play
• Nevada (13-0) has won the last two MW titles and begins defense of those titles when Utah State (10-3) comes to Lawlor Events Center on Wednesday.  No MW school has won three consecutive titles.
• The 13-0 start is the best in the Division I era that started in 1969-70 and another win would tie the 1951-52 team that started the year 14-0.
• The Pack moved up a spot to fifth in the USA Today Coaches polls and remained sixth in the AP poll.  Fifth is the highest USA Today Coaches poll ranking in school history.
• Nevada has won its last two MW openers and is 2-1 under Musselman in conference openers.
• Caleb Martin scored a career-high 33 points, 25 in the second half in the win at Utah and also had a career best seven assists in addition he had four steals and two blocks in the victory over the Utes.  He was named the MW Player of the Week for the second time this season.  He scores 66 percent of his points in the second half, 171-of-259.  • Jordan Caroline is averaging near a double-double scoring 18.7 points and grabbing 9.8 rebounds per game.  Caroline has eight double-doubles in 13 games this season and 35 in his Nevada career that is fourth in school history.  The Pack is 33-2 when he posts a double-double.  His 1,423 points in the Silver & Blue is 12th in Wolf Pack history and he is 19 points from passing Armon Johnson (2007-10) for 11th.
• Nevada has won five of the seven MW Player of the Week honors this season, Jordan Caroline (3) and Caleb Martin (2). • A veteran group, Nevada starts five redshirt seniors in Caroline, Caleb Martin, Cody Martin, Tre'Shawn Thurman and Trey Porter.  A sixth Corey Henson comes off the bench.  Jazz Johnson and Nisre Zouzoua are both fourth year juniors. •  Jazz Johnson leads Division I in 3-point field goal percentage (59.6%) and is first in the MW and seventh the country in free throw percentage (93.9%)... Has made 23 consecutive free throws. • Caleb Martin leads the MW averaging 5.7 assists per game as does his 3.4 assist/turnover ratio.

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