No. 7 Nevada to face intrastate rival UNLV Tuesday night in Las Vegas
• No. 7 and Mountain West leading Nevada (19-1, 6-1 MW) travels south to play intrastate rival UNLV (11-8, 5-2) on Tuesday night at 8 p.m. on ESPN2. The Pack has won eight of the last 12 meetings with UNLV. Tuesday's game is part of the Silver State Series.
• The Wolf Pack is one of just five one loss teams in Division I.
• Nevada is seventh in both major college basketball polls.
• The Pack's 19-1 record is the best after 20 games in school history.
• Musselman is the fastest coach in MW history to 100 games and 27th fastest in NCAA I history.
• A veteran group, Nevada has six redshirt seniors in
Jordan Caroline,
Caleb Martin,
Cody Martin,
Tre'Shawn Thurman,
Trey Porter and
Corey Henson. A redshirt senior has made 99 of a possible 100 starts.
Jazz Johnson and Nisre Zouzoua are both fourth year juniors. •
Jordan Caroline is averaging near a double-double scoring 18.7 points and grabbing 9.7 rebounds per game. Caroline has 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 1,553 points in the Silver & Blue is eighth in Wolf Pack history and his 834 rebounds at Nevada ranks seventh. •
Caleb Martin scores 64.6 (234-of-362) 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 started four games in a row until missing the Colorado State game with illness. •
Jazz Johnson is third in the MW in 3-point field goal percentage (45.7). •
Cody Martin leads the MW averaging 5.2 assists per game as does his 3.0 assist/turnover ratio. Nationally he is 23rd in assist/turnover ratio and 57th in assists per game.
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