No. 10/11 Nevada starts two-game road swing at Fresno State Saturday on ESPNU
• No. 10/11 Nevada (15-1, 2-1 MW) heads to Fresno State (12-3, 3-0 MW) to face the MW co-leading Bulldogs on ESPNU on Saturday at 5 p.m. FS is tied with Boise State at 3-0 in MW play.
• The Pack has won the last three games in the FS series.
• Nevada dropped to 10th in the AP poll and to 11th in the USA Today Coaches poll after the UNM loss.
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Caleb Martin and
Jordan Caroline were named to the midseason Wooden Award watch list. Martin was also named to the Lute Olson Award midseason watch list. Both awards honor the player of the year.
• Musselman is four wins from 100 at Nevada and would become the sixth coach to record 100 wins.
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Jordan Caroline is averaging near a double-double scoring 18.4 points and grabbing 9.4 rebounds per game. Caroline has nine double-doubles this season and 36 in his Nevada career that is fourth in school history. The Pack is 34-2 when he posts a double-double. His 1,474 points in the Silver & Blue is 11th in Wolf Pack history and is three points from passing Malik Story (2010-13) for 10th. He needs four rebounds for 1,000 in his college career and 23 points for 1,800. •
Caleb Martin scores 67 (197-of-297) percent of his points in the second half. In the SJSU game he scored 21-of-23 after halftime and was 6-for-6 from behind the arc. Five times he has scored 20 or more points in the second half. He averages 12.3 points in the second half and 6.3 in the first half. At Utah he scored a career-high 33 points, 25 in the second half in 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. • Nevada has won five of the eight MW Player of the Week honors this season,
Jordan Caroline (3) and
Caleb Martin (2). • A veteran group, Nevada has six redshirt seniors in Caroline,
Caleb Martin,
Cody Martin,
Tre'Shawn Thurman,
Trey Porter and
Corey Henson.
Jazz Johnson and Nisre Zouzoua are both fourth year juniors. •
Jazz Johnson leads MW in 3-point field goal percentage (52.9) and is second making 90.7 percent of his free throw attempts which is 14th in Division I. •
Cody Martin leads the MW averaging 5.7 assists per game as does his 3.1 assist/turnover ratio. Nationally he is 27th in assist/turnover ratio and 37th in assists per game.
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• Steve Quis (Play-By-Play)
• Corey Williams (Analyst)
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