• No. 22 and MW regular champions, Nevada (26-6) begins defense of its MW Tournament Championship against intrastate rivel UNLV (20-12) on Thursday at noon. The game will decided the Governor's Series points for the season.
• Nevada has won outright back-to-back MW regular season championships for the first time and is just the second school in the MW to accomplish the feat joining BYU in 2007 and 2008.
• Nevada captured four of the top honors from the MW coaches with
Caleb Martin earning Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year honors,
Cody Martin Defensive Player of the Year and head coach
Eric Musselman, Coach of the Year.
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Jordan Caroline, the 2017 MW Championship MVP, tied his season-high with 29 points at SDSU on Saturday and has scored 20 or more points in each of the last three games.
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Kendall Stephens has set the MW record with 73 made 3-pointers in conference play this season. His 113 made 3 pointers is second in a season at Nevada and third in the MW.
• Of the Pack's 2,673 points this season 62 (1,655-of-2,673) percent is from first year players.
• The Martin twins, Caleb (19.5) and Cody (13.9) combine to average 33.5 points per game which is 38.8 percent of the Pack's points. They combined for 53 at USU, Cody (30) and Caleb (23).
Jordan Caroline scored 20 at USU as the trio netted 73-of-93 points in the game
• Caroline has 25 career double-doubles and the Pack is 24-1 in those contests.
• Nevada's RPI sits at 14 with a strength of schedule of 52 and opponent strength of schedule of 92.
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Pregame starts 30 minutes prior to tipoff
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