FRESNO STATE AT NEVADA – SATURDAY, FEB. 22 – 7 P.M. PT– ESPNU
 
RENO, Nev. –  Winners of its last four games and last 19 Mountain West home games, Nevada (17-10, 10-5 MW) looks to extend both streaks when Fresno State (10-17, 6-10) comes to Lawlor Events Center on Saturday at 7 p.m. The Wolf Pack and Bulldogs will be meeting for the only time this season in MW play.  The Pack has won the last five games in the series.

The Pack is third in the conference standings at 10-5 with three games remaining in MW play.  FS is eighth in the MW with a 6-10 conference mark.  The Bulldogs have won two of their last three games.

Orland Robinson tops the Bulldogs scoring 12.7 points per game.  New Williams (11.9 ppg) and Nate Grimes (11.6 ppg) are also scoring in double figures.  Grimes is averaging a double-double grabbing 10 rebounds per game to go along with his 11.6 points per contest.  Robinson is second on the squad with his 6.8 rebounds per game.

Junior Jalen Harris continues to top the MW scoring 21.7 points per game and his 25.9 in conference play is also first.  Harris has scored in double figures in the last 23 games.  He is second on the team in rebound (6.5 rpg) and assists (4.0 apg).  

Senior Jazz Johnson has scored in double figures the last three games after missing two with a shoulder injury.  Johnsons 16.2 points per contest is second on the team and seventh in the conference.  He is the top 3-point shooter in the MW and has made three or more 3s in 18 games this season.

Lindsey Drew became the first Nevada player to score 900 points, have 600 rebounds and 500 assists after his play at New Mexico.  Drew tops the team with his 6.7 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game.  He is third on the squad scoring 11.1 points per game.

Nisré Zouzoua is less than a point from being the fourth Nevada player scoring in double figures as he averages 9.6 points per game.  Zouzoua has scored in double figures in six of the last eight games including a season-high 20 points in the home win over New Mexico.
 
THE SERIES
Nevada leads 57-44 and has won the last five meetings.  Head coach Steve Alford is 3-0 versus the Bulldogs

ON THE AIR
The game will be air on the ESPNU.  Steve Quis  will call the action with Ben Braun providing the color commentary. 

The game can be heard on 94.5 FM in northern Nevada with John Ramey calling all the action.  Len Stevens will works as the analyst.

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NEVADA WINNERS OF FOUR IN A ROW
    
Nevada has won its last four games, three by double figures. The Wolf Pack won a season-high five in row earlier this season.
    
In the current four-game streak Nevada is avergaing 88.2 points and allowing 71.  From the field the Pack is shooting 48.3 percent while holding opponents to 37.1 percent.  From behind the arc Nevada is shooting 34.8 percent and opponents just 26.3 percent.  
    
Three players are averaging double figures led by Jalen Harris' 31.3 points per game with Jazz Johnson scoring 15.4 and Nisré Zouzoua 11.8 per game.  
    
Harris is also averaging 8.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game. He is shooting 52.4 percent from the field and 39.4 percent on his 3s.  Johnson is shooting 41.7 percent from behind the arc.
    
Senior Lindsey Drew is averaging 8.3 rebounds, 4.8 assists and two steals per contest.

PROMOTIONS SET FOR FRESNO STATE GAME
    
Fans are encouraged to donate to the coat drive on Saturday that will benefit the Big Brothers Big Sisters.  Donate a coat and you get into the Fresno State game for free.  Bins will be located at each entrance and you will receive a voucher to redeem at the door.  
    
Load up the car and bring all the neighborhood children to the game. Children can get in for free with a full price paid adult.
    
    Children from the Boys & Girls Club will be on the court during the Nevada introductions.

HARRIS FIRST NEVADA PLAYER WITH FOUR CONSECUTIVE 30-POINT GAMES
    
Junior Jalen Harris became the first player at Nevada in the NCAA I era that began in 1969 to score 30 or more points in three consecutive games and added a fourth with 32 points in the win over SJSU.  The third was a career-high 38 points in the win over Air Force. Harris had 30 at Boise State and 31 at Colorado State in the previous two games. The 38 points is the high in the Mountain West this season.
    
In the four games he averaged 32.8 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 4.3 assists per game.  From the field he shot 53.8 percent, 48.6 percent from behind the arc and 94.1 percent at the free throw line.  Of the 131 points 88 came in the second half.  He made a career-best six 3s on eight attempts in the 38-point game against Air Force.
    
In total he has six games of 30 or more points this season and is one-of-seven players in NCAA I with six or more games of 30 or more points this season. He is the only NCAA I player that has four consecutive 30-point games this season.  His first of the season was 31 at Air Force and he had 31 at Utah State.
    
The six games is the most by a MW player since Josh Adams had nine and Elijah Brown six in the 2015-16 season.  Jimmer Fredette was the last MW player with four in a row and it was five in a row, the last five games of his college career in 2011.
    
Harris joins Ken Green (1982-83), Romie Thomas (1970-71) and Edgar Jones (1976-77) as the only Wolf Pack players with six games of 30 or more points in a season.  Green had 11, Thomas eight and Jones seven.

ALFORD WINS 600TH GAME AS PACK DOWNS NEW MEXICO 96-74
    
First-year Nevada head coach Steve Alford won his 600th career game when the Wolf Pack defeated New Mexico 96-74 on Jan. 25. Alford coached at UNM for six seasons and won 155 games during his time with the Lobos.  Alford is 604-308 in his 29th season.  
    
Alford is the 16th active NCAA I head coach with 600 career wins.  He earned 78 victories at Manchester, 78 at Missouri State, 152 during his time at Iowa, 155 coaching at New Mexico and 124 at UCLA.   
    
Alford's father Sam coached 29 seasons of high school basketball posting a record of 452-288.  The two have combined for 1,056 victories.  Steve played for his father at New Castle Chrysler High School in Indiana.  He played for legendary coach Bob Knight at Indiana and helped the Hoosiers to the 1987 NCAA Championship.  Knight posted a record of 902-371 in 42 seasons.

HARRIS NAMED FEB. 9 OSCAR ROBERTSON NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK AND MW PLAYER OF THE WEEK 
    
Junior Jalen Harris was named the Feb. 9 Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week and Feb. 10 Mountain West Player of the Week after helping the Pack to a pair of wins.  He is the first Nevada player to garner the Oscar Robertson Nationally Player of the Week honor and was named the MW Player of the Week for the third time this season. 
    
As the Mountain West Conference Player of the Week, Harris was nominated for the weekly award, which was chosen by a representative of the USBWA board of directors from a list of Division I conference players of the week. Once again, the USBWA will select a Division I men's National Player of the Week each Tuesday throughout the season. The USBWA has named Oscar Robertson National Players of the Week since the 2009-10 season.    
    
Harris, a 6-5 junior from Duncanville Texas, averaged averaged 35.0 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists while playing 36.5 minutes per game in a pair of lopsided conference wins over Air Force and San Jose State.
    
Harris scored a career-high 38 points in the 88-54 win over the Falcons, after sinking a career-high six three-pointers. He added six rebounds and had four assists in the game. On Saturday, he scored 32 points against the Spartans in the 95-77 win to go with five rebounds and three assists.
    
Harris has scored 30 points in four straight games and his 38-point outburst was a career high. In the two games last week, he shot 56.8 percent from the field (25-of-44), 61.1 percent (11-of-18) from behind the arc and was 9-for-9 at the free throw line. 

DREW MAKING MARK IN NEVADA RECORD BOOK
    
Senior Lindsey Drew has played 126 games at Nevada and started 120.  The 120 starts is third at Nevada with Dario Hunt (2009-12) second.  Drew has played in 91 wins during his time which is fifth at Nevada and  Lyndale Burleson (2005-09) is fourth with 92.  His 3,815 minutes played is fifth at Nevada.
    
Drew's 161 steals is sixth in Wolf Pack history with Matt Williams (1987-91) fifth with 162.  His 501 assists is third with Deonte Burton (2010-14) second with 515. 
    
He is the first player at Nevada with 900 points, 600 rebounds and 500 assists. Currently he sits at 928 points, 631 rebounds and 501 assists.

HARRIS LEADING THE PACK
    
Junior Jalen Harris has scored in double figures in the last 23 games which includes six games of 30 or more points at Air Force (31), at Utah State (31), at Colorado State (31), at Boise State (30), home versus Air Force (38) and SJSU (32).  The 38 points is his career high and the high in the Mountain West this season.  He made a career-best six 3s on eight attempts in the AF home win.
    
He is the only player in the MW to have six games of 30 or more points this season.  The six games is the most by a MW player since Josh Adams had nine and Elijah Brown six in the 2015-16 season.  
    
He joins Ken Green (1982-83), Romie Thomas (1970-71) and Edgar Jones (1976-77) as the only Wolf Pack players with six games of 30 or more points in a season.  Green had 11, Thomas eight and Jones seven.
    
Harris has delivered in the clutch scoring the final three points at UNLV in the Pack's 82-79 victory.  His layup with just under 9 seconds to play against Wyoming gave the Pack the 68-67 victory. At CSU his 3-pointer with 5.3 seconds to play put the Pack up 91-90 before the Rams won on a last second shot.
    
Harris tops the team in scoring (21.8 ppg) and is second in rebounding (6.5 rpg) and assists (4.0 apg).  The 21.8 points per game leads the Mountain West and 26.1 in MW play is also first.  The assist numbers rank fifth in the MW and the rebounds ninth.
    
In 15 of the last 22 games he has scored 20 or more points including the six 30-point games.  In the win over Santa Clara he posted his first career double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds.  His game-high eight assists left him two shy of a triple double.  At UNLV he posted his second double-double with game highs of 29 points, 14 rebounds and five assists.  The 14 rebounds is the high for a Pack player this season.
    
In 14 games he posted game highs in points, 11 times he posted a game-high in assists and six times a game-high in rebounds.
    
From the field he is shooting 45.7 percent, 36.4 percent from behind the arc and 82.8 percent at the free throw line to rank fourth  in the conference.
    
Harris injured his foot in the season opener with Utah playing just 8 minutes and missed the LMU game.  He returned to the lineup against UT Arlington and scored a game-high 24 points in the victory.

JOHNSON HAS NOT MISSED A BEAT AFTER MISSING TWO GAMES
    
Wolf Pack senior Jazz Johnson has not missed a beat since returning from a shoulder injury that forced him to miss two games.  Since his return Johnson is averaging 15.7 points and scored in double figures in all three games.  In his return to the lineup against San José State he scored 13 points, had 19 at UNLV and 15 at New Mexico.  The two games missed were at Boise State and home with Air Force.  
    
Johnson ranks second on the team and is seventh in the MW scoring 16.2 points per game.  
    
Johnson's 22 games scoring in double figures is second on the team.  He scored a career-high 34 points in the Pack's home win over Boise State.  Johnson made a career-best eight 3-pointers on 12 attempts.  The eight made 3s and 13 made field goals all rank second in the MW this season while the 34 points is third.
    
The eight made 3s is tied for the third most in a game at Nevada.  He also tied for game honors with a career-high seven rebounds.
    
Johnson scored his 1,500th career point at New Mexico with 740 of the points coming in two seasons at Portland.  Currently has 1,507 points in 123 games
        
He has made a 3-pointer in each game this season and three or more in 18 contests.
    
Johnson has been knocking down the 3-pointers at a high rate this season having made 81-of-192.  The 81 made 3s is 15th nationally, 3.2 per game is 11th, and 42.2 3-point percentage is 17th.  He tops the MW in 3-pointers  per game and 3-point percentage while ranking second in 3s made.
    
Five times he has scored 20 or more points; 20 vs. LMU, 26 vs. USC, 25 vs. BGSU, 20 vs. SCU and the 34 vs. BSU.  In the USC, BGSU, SCU and BSU games the point totals were game highs.
    
He is shooting 81.6 percent at the free throw line.
    
At the Paradise Jam he made 60 percent of his 3-pointers connecting on 15-of-25 in three games.  In the title game he made 7-of-10.  

DREW DOING IT ALL IN FINAL SEASON AT NEVADA, THREE ASSISTS FROM 500

The versatile Lindsey Drew is doing it once again in his fifth and final season at Nevada.  Drew missed all last year after rupturing his right achilles tendon at Boise State on Feb. 14, 2018.  

Drew is the first 900 point, 600 rebound and 500 assists player in school history.  
    
Currently he has 928 points, 631 rebounds and 501 assists.  He also has 161 steals.
    
The do everything guard returned with a flair scoring a career-high 30 points in his senior debut against Utah.  He also grabbed six rebounds and dished out eight assists.  In the next game he scored 24 points, had nine rebounds and five assists in a win over Loyola Marymount.  Both point totals were game highs.
    
In 15 games he has scored in double figures which is the most double figure scoring games for him in a season, passing the 10 he had his junior year before the injury.  He leads the team in assists (4.3 apg) and rebounding (6.7 rpg).  From the field he is shooting 48.3 percent.  In total he is ranked in seven categories in the conference.
    
Twice he has posted double-doubles with 10 points and 10 rebounds in the Paradise Jam Championship game win over Bowling Green.  Against TSU he scored 18 points and had 10 rebounds for his second double-double of the season and fourth of his career.
    
In the win at UNLV he grabbed a season-high 13 rebounds.
    
In nine games he posted highs in assists; vs. Utah (8), LMU (7), UTA (4), at Air Force (6), vs. CSU (6), vs. BSU (9), at SJSU (5), vs. the AFA (4) and vs. SJSU (7).  The nine assists in the BSU game tied his career high and is the high for a Nevada player this season.  In another six games he posted game highs in rebounds; LMU (9), vs. Bowling Green (10), at Air Force (8), TSU (10) at BSU (10) and vs. SJSU (8).

ZOUZOUA ON FIRE FROM THREE
    
Senior Nisré Zouzoua has provided a spark off the bench this season and in the New Mexico home win led the Pack in scoring for the first time in his career with 20 points.  Zouzoua knocked down 6-of-7 shots from behind the arc vs. UNM.  The 20 points and six made 3s are both highs for him during his time at Nevada. At Colorado State he was a perfect 5-of-5 from behind the arc making 11-of-12 in the  two-game stretch.  
    
Zousoua has scored in double figures in three of the last four games and six of the last eight contests. Three times he has put together three-game scoring streaks with the most recent one being 15 vs. Air Force, 15 vs. SJSU and 12 at UNLV.  His 9.7 points per game this season ranks fourth on the squad. 
    
Zouzoua started the game at Boise State and the home game with Air Force for the injured Jazz Johnson.  On the season he has made four starts. In the last eight games is averaging 12.5 points, is shooting 46.7 (35-of-75) percent from the field and 45.5 (20-of-44) from behind the arc
    
In 14 games this season he has scored in double figures.
    
He scored nine points in each of the first two games of the season which were then Nevada career highs.  Against UT Arlington he nearly doubled that netting 16 points, making 6-of-8 shots from the field of which 3-of-5 were from behind the arc.
    
At the Paradise Jam he averaged 11 points per game. He scored 11 points in the win over Fordham and 15 in the victory against Valparaiso.

NEVADA THIRD IN MW STANDINGS
    
Nevada is third place in the Mountain West standings at 10-5 with three games remaining on the conference schedule.
    
San Diego State leads the conference with a perfect 15-0 record followed by Utah State at 11-5.  Boise State is fourth at 10-6 with Colorado State and Boise State tied for fifth at 9-6.  
    
New Mexico is seventh at 6-9.  Fresno State (6-10), Air Force (4-11), San José State (3-12) and Wyoming (1-14) are in spots 8-11.
    
Upcoming Mountain West Games    
Saturday, Feb. 22
Wyoming at Air Force* (AT&T SportsNet) 2 p.m. MT
San José State at Colorado State* (MWN) 2 p.m. MT
UNLV at #4/4 San Diego State* (CBSSN) 4:30 p.m. PT
Fresno State at Nevada* (ESPNU) 7 p.m. PT
Sunday, February 23
New Mexico at Boise State* (CBSSN) 2 p.m. MT

LAST TIME OUT

HARRIS HELPS LIFT NEVADA OVER NEW MEXICO 88-74

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Sparked by another standout game from Jalen Harris, who scored 26 with nine rebounds, Nevada beat New Mexico 88-74 on Tuesday night.
It was a game that marked the first return to the Pit of former Lobos coaches Steve Alford, who left New Mexico to coach UCLA before ending up at Reno, Nev., and Craig Neal, who replaced Alford with the Lobos, before getting fired after four years and joining Alford with the Wolf Pack.

While New Mexico showed an intensity that has been missing of late, a 13-3 Wolf Pack run late in the first half turned a 30-30 game into a 43-33 Nevada lead.

The Lobos never really threatened from there, getting no closer than 49-42 early in the second half.

Jazz Johnson added 15 points, including his 1,500th career point, for Nevada (17-10, 10-5 Mountain West Conference), which has won four straight.
    
Vance Jackson had 15 for New Mexico (17-11, 6-9).
    
Lindsey Drew scored 14 points with six rebounds and four assists to become the first Wolf Pack player in program history with 900 points, 600 rebounds and 500 assists in his career.
    
Harris came into the game averaging 32 points a game over his last five.

UP NEXT - 
AT WYOMING • AT&T SN
TUE. • FEB. 25 • 6 P.M. PT
Arena-Auditorium (11,612)

The Cowboys have lost their last four games and 12 of the last 13 contests.  Wyoming is last in the Mountain West standings at 1-14 and are 6-21 overall.  

Nevada won the first meeting 68-67 on Jan. 14 in Reno.  Junior Jalen Harris scored the winning basket and finished with a game-high 20 points.  

Hunter Maldonado topped the Cowboys with 17 points in the game.

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