No. 17/18 Nevada seeks share of third consecutive MW regular season title Saturday
• No. 17/18 Nevada (27-3, 14-3 MW) will seek a share of third consecutive MW regular season title on Saturday when San Diego State (19-11, 11-6 MW) comes to Lawlor Events Center. The Wolf Pack has won the last two MW titles outright. The Pack would be the third MW school to win three in a row.
• Nevada has won its last 17 home games including all 14 this season. It is tied with Purdue for the fifth longest active streak in Division I and tied for the second longest at Nevada. The school record is 18.
• The Pack's 27 wins is tied for third most in NCAA I. • The Pack's 27-3 record is tied with the 2006-07 team for the best after 30 games in school history. • The 27 wins is tied for fifth most at Nevada. The school record is 29 wins by the 2006-07 and 2017-18 teams.
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 148 of a possible 150 starts.
Jazz Johnson and Nisré Zouzoua are both fourth year juniors. • Johnson scored a career-high 27 points at Air Force on Tuesday and he made 7-of-10 3-pointers, his career high, the high for a Pack player this season, and is tied for the second most in the MW this season •
Caleb Martin has scored 20 or more points in eight of the last 10 games which includes 30 in the home win over Boise State ... He scores 60.8 percent (355-of-583) of his points in the second half ... He averages 11.8 points in the second half and 7.6 in the first half ... Currently he ranks 18th at Nevada in career scoring with 1,263 points and has scored 1814 in his college career ... He is nine points from 17th at Nevada. • Caroline scored his 2,000 career point at Utah State and is one of four active Division I players with 2000 points and 1100 rebounds ... Currently he has 2015 points and 1,133 rebounds in 135 college games ... At Nevada he has 1,712 points is sixth at Nevada and his 927 rebounds ranks fifth ... He needs 20 points to move past Alex Boyd (1967-70) for fifth ... He has 17 double-doubles this season and 44 in his Nevada career that is fourth in school history ... The 44 double-doubles is the MW record that was held by Kawhi Leonard (SDSU, 2009-11) and Andrew Bogut (Utah, 2003-05). ... The Pack is 42-2 when he posts a double-double. •
Cody Martin leads the MW averaging 5.2 assists per game as does his 2.8 assist/turnover ratio ... Nationally he is 25th in assist/turnover ratio and 54th in assists per game. • Caleb (30) and Cody (21) Martin combined for 51 points in the home win over BSU, two off their combined high of 53 last season at Utah State ...
Tre'Shawn Thurman has three double-doubles in the last five games and scored in double figures in five of the last seven games.
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