NEVADA AT WYOMING – TUESDAY, FEB. 25 – 6 P.M. PT– AT&T SPORTS NET
 
RENO, Nev. –  Winners of its last five games and last two road games, Nevada (18-10, 11-5 MW) heads to Wyoming (7-21, 2-14 MW) for Tuesday night contest with the Cowboys.  The game will air on AT&T Sports Net at 6 p.m. PT.  

The Wolf Pack is tied with Utah State at 11-5 in the Mountain West standings with two games remaining on the conference schedule. Nevada hosts No. 5 San Diego State on Saturday at 5 p.m.  USU hosts SJSU and ends the conference schedule at New Mexico.

The Pack won the first meeting in Reno when Jalen Harris' layup with just under 9 seconds to play secured the 68-67 victory over Wyoming.  The Cowboys defeated Air Force 78-72 in their last game.

Hunter Maldonado leads Wyoming scoring 16.8 points per game. Jake Hendricks is the Cowboys second leading scorer at 9.4 per contest.  Maldonado tops the team with his 5.7 rebounds per game.

Junior Jalen Harris continues to top the MW scoring 21.6 points per game and his 25.6 in conference play is also first.  Harris has scored in double figures in the last 24 games.  He is second on the team in rebound (6.4 rpg) and assists (4.0 apg).  

Senor Jazz Johnson is scoring 16.2 per game to rank second on the team and seventh in the MW. One of the top 3-point shooters in the MW, Johnson has made three or more 3s in 19 games this season.

Lindsey Drew tops the team in rebounds (6.7 rpg) and assists (4.3 apg).  His 11.2 points per game is third on the team.  

Nisré Zouzoua is less than a point from being the fourth Nevada player scoring in double figures as he averages 9.9 points per game.  Zouzoua has scored in double figures in seven of the last nine games .  In the win over Fresno State he netted 19 points making 5-of-7 shots from behind the arc.

THE SERIES
Wyoming leads the series 14-8 but the Pack has won six of the last seven meetings.  Nevada has won three of the last four games played in Laramie.  Head coach Steve Alford is 13-2 versus the Bulldogs

ON THE AIR

The game will be air on the AT&T SportsNet.  Drew Goodman  will call the action with Dave Bollwinkel providing the color commentary. 

The game can be heard on 94.5 FM in northern Nevada with John Ramey calling all the action.   

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NEVADA WINNERS OF FIVE IN A ROW
    
Nevada has won its last five games, three by double figures and two on the road. Twice this season the Wolf Pack has won a season-high five consecutive games.
    
In the current five-game streak Nevada is avergaing 86.2 points and allowing 72.  From the field the Pack is shooting 48.1 percent while holding opponents to 38.4 percent.  From behind the arc Nevada is shooting 36.2 percent and opponents just 29.2 percent.  
    
Three players are averaging double figures led by Jalen Harris' 29 points per game with Jazz Johnson scoring 15.5 and Nisré Zouzoua 13.2 per game.  
    
Harris is also averaging 7.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game. He is shooting 49 percent from the field and 37.8 percent on his 3s.  Johnson is shooting 41.9 (13-of-31) percent from behind the arc.
    
Senior Lindsey Drew is averaging 9.6 points, 7.8 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 2.2 steals per contest.

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.

DREW MAKING MARK IN NEVADA RECORD BOOK
    
Senior Lindsey Drew has played 127 games at Nevada and started 121.  The 121 starts is third at Nevada with Dario Hunt (2009-12) second with 127.  Drew has played in 92 wins during his time which is tied for fourth at Nevada with Lyndale Burleson (2005-09).  Kyle Shiloh (2003-07) is third with 98.  His 3,850 minutes played is third at Nevada.
    
Drew's 164 steals is fifth in Wolf Pack history with Deonte Burton (2010-14) fourth with 169.  His 504 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 943 points, 637 rebounds and 504  assists.

HARRIS LEADING THE PACK
    
Junior Jalen Harris has scored in double figures in the last 24 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. In the win over Fresno State his bucket with 30 seconds to play put the Pack up 78-73 on the way to the 78-76 victory.
    
Harris tops the team in scoring (21.7 ppg) and is second in rebounding (6.4 rpg) and assists (4.0 apg).  The 21.6 points per game leads the Mountain West and 25.6 in MW play is also first.  The assist numbers rank fifth in the MW and the rebounds ninth.
    
In last seven games and 16 of the last 23 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 15 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 45.2 percent, 36.1 percent from behind the arc and 82.3 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 CONTINUES TO KNOCK DOWN THE 3S
    
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 15.5 points and scored in double figures in all four games.  In his return to the lineup against San José State he scored 13 points, had 19 at UNLV, 15 at New Mexico and 15 vs. Fresno State.  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 23 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 1,522 points in 124 games
    
He has made a 3-pointer in each game this season and three or more in 19 contests.
    
Johnson has been knocking down the 3-pointers at a high rate this season having made 84-of-199.  The 84 made 3s is 16th nationally, 3.2 per game is 12th, and 42.2 3-point percentage is 15th.  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 82.1 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 943 points, 637 rebounds and 504 assists.  He also has 164 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 16 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 48.1 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 DELIVERING IN HIS SENIOR SEASON
    
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.  
    
In the win over Fresno State he scored 19 points, one-point off his Pack career high.  Zouzoua connected of 7-of-9 field goals, 5-of-7 from behind the arc. 
    
In the last nine games is averaging 13.2 points, is shooting 50 (42-of-84) percent from the field and 49 (25-of-51) from behind the arc
    
Zousoua has scored in double figures in four of the last five games and seven of the last nine 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 9.9 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 15 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 TIED FOR SECOND IN MW STANDINGS
    
Nevada is tied for second place in the Mountain West standings at 11-5 with two games remaining on the conference schedule.  Utah State is also 11-5.
    
San Diego State leads the conference with a 15-1 record.  Boise State is fourth at 11-6 with Colorado State and UNLV tied for fifth at 10-6.  
    
New Mexico is seventh at 6-10.  Fresno State (6-11), Air Force (4-12), San José State (3-13) and Wyoming (2-14) are in spots 8-11.
    
Upcoming Mountain West Games    
Tuesday, February 25
Nevada at Wyoming* (AT&T SportsNet) 6 p.m. PT
San José State at Utah State* (ESPN2) 9 p.m. MT
Colorado State at #4/4 San Diego State* (CBSSN) 8 p.m. PT
Wednesday, February 26
New Mexico at Air Force* (ESPN3) 7 p.m. MT
Boise State at UNLV* (CBSSN) 8 p.m. PT

LAST TIME OUT

JOHNSON HELPS NEVADA PULL AWAY LATE TO BEAT FRESNO ST. 78-76

RENO, Nev. (AP) Jazz Johnson scored nine of his 15 points during Nevada's 16-5 closing run and the Wolf Pack beat Fresno State 78-76 on Saturday night.
Jalen Harris scored 20 points to lead Nevada (18-10, 11-5 Mountain West Conference), which has won five straight games. Nisre Zouzoua added 19 points and Lindsey Drew had 15.

Fresno State (10-18, 6-11) led 71-62 with 6:45 to play. Zouzoua sparked the game-winning rally with a 3-pointer. Johnson followed with nine straight points and Harris added four and Nevada led 78-73.

Jarred Hyder converted a three-point play with about a minute left for Fresno State. New Williams missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Niven Hart scored 18 points to lead Fresno State. Hyder added 15 points, Orlando Robinson had 13 and Noah Blackwell 12.

The Bulldogs shot 14 of 35 (40%) from the 3-point arc, but missed nine free throws (12 of 21). Hart, Blackwell, and Hyder each made four 3-pointers.

UP NEXT - 
SAN DIEGO STATE • ESPN2
SAT. • FEB. 29 • 5 P.M. PT
Lawlor Events Center (11,536)

San Diego State lost for the first time this season falling 66-63 at home to UNLV on Saturday.  The Aztecs claimed the 2020 MW regular season title and the top seed in the MW Championship.  

Malachi Flynn leads four Aztec players scoring in double figures averaging 16.9 points per game. Yanni Wetzell tops SDSU grabbing 6.8 rebounds per game.

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