No. 7/8 Nevada hosts Boise State in a matinee game Saturday afternoon at 3:00 p.m.
• No. 7/8 and Mountain West leading Nevada (20-1, 7-1 MW) hosts Boise State (10-11, 5-3) on Saturday afternoon at Lawlor Events Center at 3 p.m. The Pack has won the last five meetings with BSU.
• Nevada has won its last 13 home games including all 10 this season.
• The Wolf Pack is one of just five one loss teams in Division I and one of three with 20 wins.
• Nevada is seventh in the USA Today Coaches poll and eighth in the AP poll.
• The Pack's 20-1 record is the best after 21 games in school history.
• Musselman has won 20 games each of his four seasons at Nevada. Mark Fox won 20 in his first five.
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 104 of a possible 105 starts.
Jazz Johnson and Nisre Zouzoua are both fourth year juniors. •
Jordan Caroline is averaging near a double-double scoring 18.6 points and grabbing 9.7 rebounds per game. Caroline has 12 double-doubles this season and 39 in his Nevada career that is fourth in school history. The Pack is 37-2 when he posts a double-double. His 1,571 points in the Silver & Blue is eighth in Wolf Pack history and his 844 rebounds at Nevada ranks seventh. •
Caleb Martin scores 64 (248-of-388) 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 11.8 points in the second half and 6.7 in the first half. At Utah he scored a career-high 33 points, 25 in the second half 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 (44.3). •
Cody Martin is four points from 1,000 in his college career. He leads the MW averaging 5.3 assists per game as does his 2.8 assist/turnover ratio. Nationally he is 30th in assist/turnover ratio and 49th in assists per game.
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