Nevada (10-5, 5-3 MW) at Wyoming (8-5, 2-4 MW)
Friday, Jan. 22, 2021 - 5 p.m. PT
Laramie, Wyo. - Arena-Auditorium
TV: Stadium (PxP: Jenny Cavnar, Analyst: Richie Schueler)
Radio: ESPN Radio 94.5 (PxP: John Ramey)
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RENO, Nev. - Nevada (10-5, 5-3 MW) hits the road for its third Mountain West road series in four weeks. This time the Pack heads to Laramie for a two-game series at Wyoming.

Friday's opener will tip at 5 p.m. PT on Stadium and the Mountain West Network, while Sunday's 1 p.m. PT finale will air nationally on CBS Sports Network. The series will also be broadcast in Reno on ESPN Radio 94.5 FM with John Ramey on the call.

UP NEXT
Nevada will be home for two weekends in a row following the trip to Wyoming. The Pack will host UNLV Sunday, Jan. 31, and Tuesday, Feb. 2, before Boise State comes to town for a two-game series set for Friday, Feb. 5 and Sunday, Feb. 7.

PACK BOUNCES BACK WITH SWEEP OF FRESNO STATE
Returning home after suffering a tough sweep at San Diego State in which it lost the two games by a total of seven points, Nevada bounced back nicely with a home sweep of Fresno State this past weekend.

Sophomore guard Grant Sherfield averaged 25.0 points and 6.00 assists, and posted FG/3FG/FT percentages of 56.7/41.7/91.7 over the series, while redshirt junior guard Desmond Cambridge, Jr., averaged 12.5 points and 9.5 rebounds, including a double-double of 12 points and a career-best 11 rebounds in Sunday's 79-65 win.

The Pack also received solid bench production over the weekend, as the bench averaged 18.5 points, highlighted by 7.0 points a game from Kane Milling and 6.5 points per game from K.J. Hymes.

SCOUTING THE COWBOYS
Wyoming (8-5, 2-4 MW) enters this weekend's series off of a split at Air Force Sunday and Tuesday. It will be a short turnaround for the Cowboys, which snapped a four-game skid with Tuesday night's 77-58 win over the Falcons.

Wyoming is led by the play of Marcus Williams (16.3 ppg, 4.00 apg) and Hunter Maldonado (14.1 ppg, 6.5 rpg).

SHERFIELD PACES PACK IN SWEEP OF BULLDOGS
Sophomore guard Grant Sherfield once again played a key role in a Mountain West series win for Nevada, posting a pair of 20-point performances in the sweep of Fresno State.

Sherfield continued his outstanding play of late, averaging 25.0 points, 6.00 assists, and 4.0 rebounds per game, while posting FG/3FG/FT percentages of 56.7/41.7/91.7. In Friday's opener, he went for 23 points on 9-of-15 shooting including 4-for-8 from 3-point range, and followed with a 27-point effort, including a 10-for-10 showing from the line, and eight assists in Sunday's finale.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Nevada has been living out of its suitcase for much of the first full month of Mountain West play, as this weekend's series at Wyoming is the team's third since the post-holiday restart to conference action.

The Wolf Pack, 2-2 away from home in conference play this season, is the only Mountain West team to have to go on the road three times within the first four series since conference play restarted full-time the weekend of Dec. 31-Jan. 2. The Pack went 2-0 against New Mexico in Lubbock, Texas, Dec. 31 and Jan. 2, and lost both games at San Diego State, by a combined total of seven points, Jan. 7 and 9.

SUCCESS IN LARAMIE
Although Wyoming leads the overall series against Nevada, 15-9, the Pack has been in control over the past five seasons, winning seven of the past nine including a 4-1 mark at the Arena-Auditorium in Laramie.

Since joining the Mountain West in 2012-13, Nevada lost each of its first three trips to Laramie, but since has won four of its past five, with the only defeat since the 2015-16 campaign being a 104-103 double-overtime setback on Jan. 24, 2018. The Pack's four wins over that span have come by an average margin of 14.8 points.

NEARING THE HALFWAY POINT
This weekend's series at Wyoming will mark the halfway point of the Mountain West campaign for the Wolf Pack. Currently at 5-3 and in fourth place in the standings, the Pack has a chance to further entrench itself in the top five, which would mean a first-round bye at March 10-13's Mountain West Championship.

Following this trip to Laramie, Nevada will play six of its final 10 conference games at home, meaning a strong result at Wyoming would put the Pack in an advantageous spot to make a run at the Mountain West regular-season title.

KEEPING OPPONENT SCORING DOWN
Head coach Steve Alford knew that with a younger squad this season (Nevada has just one senior on its roster, and no scholarship seniors), defense would be even more of a priority.

Through its first eight games of Mountain West play, Nevada ranks third in the conference in scoring defense, allowing just 63.6 points a game, and is one of just three teams in the Mountain West (San Diego State and Utah State being the others) to not yet allow a conference opponent to reach 80 points in a game.

In fact, in only one of eight Mountain West games this season has a Pack opponent hit the 70-point mark (Jan. 2's 84-74 win over New Mexico).

CAMBRIDGE, JR., MAKES IMPACT ON THE BOARDS
Redshirt junior guard Desmond Cambridge, Jr., is another member of the Pack making an impact in his debut season. While the Nashville, Tenn., native and Brown transfer ranks second on the team in scoring this season at 15.1 points per game, he made a big difference on the boards in last weekend's sweep of Fresno State.

After grabbing eight rebounds to go with 13 points in Friday's series-opening win, Cambridge, Jr., bettered that with his second-career double-double, and first with Nevada, finishing with 12 points and a career-best 11 rebounds in Sunday's finale. The performances brought his season rebounding average to 4.7 per game, and he leads the Pack with 65 defensive rebounds.