No. 7 Nevada hosts Colorado State on pink night as Musselman seeks 100th victory
• No. 7 Nevada (18-1, 5-1 MW) hosts Colorado State (7-11, 2-3 MW) on Pink Night and head coach
Eric Musselman (99-30) will seek his 100th victory leading the Wolf Pack.
• Nevada has won its last 12 home games and is 9-0 at Lawlor this season.
• The Wolf Pack is one of just six one loss teams in Division I.
• Nevada is seventh, up three spots from last week, in both major college basketball polls.
• The Pack's 18-1 record is the best after 19 games in school history.
• Musselman is one win from becoming the sixth coach at Nevada to lead the Pack to 100 victories.
A veteran group, Nevada has six redshirt seniors in Caroline,
Caleb Martin,
Cody Martin,
Tre'Shawn Thurman,
Trey Porter and
Corey Henson. A redshirt senior has made 94 of a possible 95 starts.
Jazz Johnson and Nisre Zouzoua are both fourth year juniors. •
Jordan Caroline is averaging near a double-double scoring 18.3 points and grabbing 9.8 rebounds per game. Caroline had 11 double-doubles this season and 38 in his Nevada career that is fourth in school history. The Pack is 36-2 when he posts a double-double. His 1,527 points in the Silver & Blue is eighth in Wolf Pack history. His 827 rebounds at Nevada ranks seventh. •
Caleb Martin scores 66.5 (222-of-344) 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 11.7 points in the second half and 6.4 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. • Henson has started the last four games. •
Jazz Johnson is second in the MW in 3-point field goal percentage (47.1). •
Cody Martin leads the MW averaging 5.2 assists per game as does his 2.9 assist/turnover ratio. Nationally he is 30th in assist/turnover ratio and 55th in assists per game.
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