Nevada (7-6, 1-1 MW) at Air Force (8-5, 1-1 MW)
Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022 - 2 p.m. PT
USAFA, Colo. - Clune Arena

TV: CBS Sports Network (PxP: Chick Hernandez; Analyst: Bob Wenzel)
Radio: ESPN 94.5 FM (PxP: John Ramey)

RENO, Nev. - Nevada makes its Mountain West road debut Saturday, heading to the Academy to face Air Force in a 2 p.m. PT tip.

Saturday's contest will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network, with Chick Hernandez and Bob Wenzel on the call.  The game will also be carried over the airwaves in Reno on ESPN Radio 94.5 FM and online through the Varsity Network app, with John Ramey calling the action.

UP NEXT
The Wolf Pack closes out its three-games-in six-days stretch Monday, hosting Wyoming in a rescheduling of Jan. 4's postponed contest. The MLK Day contest against the Cowboys will tip at 5 p.m. on FS1.

Nevada is scheduled to play three of its next four at home, hosting Fresno State (Jan. 21) and Utah State (Jan. 29) around a Jan. 25 date at Colorado State.

SCOUTING AIR FORCE
Air Force (8-5, 1-1 MW) is seeing its first action Saturday since Jan. 4, when it suffered a 67-59 defeat to Colorado State.

The Falcons are led by the play of AJ Walker (16.7 ppg, 26 3-pointers) and Jake Heidbreder (9.4 ppg, 20 3-pointers). As a team, Air Force allows opposing teams just 59.8 points per contest.

FINDING A RHYTHM
Nevada is playing two regularly-scheduled contests in a row for the first time in a month, so long as Saturday's game at Air Force tips off. The last time the Pack played two-straight regularly-scheduled games was Dec. 15 and 18 against Minnesota-Duluth and LMU, respectively.

The Wolf Pack has persevered going on two months with COVID breaks postponing its scheduled games. Since its 79-66 win over Pepperdine on Nov. 30, Nevada has had six games canceled or postponed. Saturday's game against Wyoming will be just the sixth over a span of 46 days.

MOUNTAIN WEST'S BEST OVER LAST FIVE SEASONS
Nevada won its eighth Mountain West opener in 10 seasons in the conference Jan. 1 with its 79-70 victory over New Mexico.

Nevada's conference run of play has been the best among Mountain West teams since 2016-17, as the Wolf Pack is 67-24 (.736) in Mountain West regular-season play since the start of the 2016-17 campaign. That figure is the best winning percentage in the conference over that time (San Diego State is next, at 66-27, .710).

SHERFIELD APPROACHING 1,000 CAREER POINTS
Junior point guard Grant Sherfield is at the doorstep of a major career milestone, ahead of Saturday's contest at Air Force.

Sherfield enters the game just 22 points shy of the 1,000-career-point mark, sitting at 978. As the Fort Worth, Texas, native is averaging 19.4 points a game so far this season, and is coming off of a 26-point effort against Boise State, there's a better-than-good chance he hits the mark at Air Force.

For Sherfield, 735 of his career points have come at Nevada, with 243 coming in his freshman campaign (2019-20) at Wichita State. Once he hits the 1,000-point mark, he will join Desmond Cambridge Jr. as Nevada's two 1,000-point scorers (Cambridge Jr.'s total is also combined between two schools: Nevada and Brown).