Pure Dominance: Nevada Uses 33-Point Win to Breeze Past SJSU

Offense? Great. Defense? Great. Everything was on point and clicking for Nevada tonight against one of the conference’s rougher teams in San Jose State, leading to an 87-54 win over the Spartans at Lawlor.

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The threes were flying for the Pack and the defense held the team tight. All around, not much to complain about for the teams performance tonight.

Scoring Summary

1st Half

San Jose State 26 – Nevada 39

2nd Half

San Jose State 28 – Nevada 48

Final: San Jose State 54, Nevada 87

Offense

A missed shot on the opening drive for Nevada was quickly wiped by a three-pointer by Corey Camper Jr. for an early 3-0 lead. Camper followed up with two more early threes to start 3-3 from beyond the arc with nine points.

Nevada turned into a three-machine team through the first half. Averaging just 38.2 percent from beyond the arc this season, the Pack shot 57 percent from there in the first half alone. Camper led with three triples and finished the first half with 13 points.

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“Any time you can make 12 threes, and they weren’t bad threes, we only shot 21, but I thought we made some good threes tonight,” Steve Alford said.

The aggressive offense led to a 14-3 run over three minutes of play. Nevada took a 39-25 lead into the final media timeout of the half with 2:35 to go. The Spartans also ended the final two and a half minutes of the first half on a scoring drought.

The second half featured similar aggression from deep, with Camper missing the first three taken, but Tayshawn Comer knocked down the next one for his first three of the night.

Nevada turned in a quick 8-0 run over about three minutes, making two out of four threes during that time. Give ‘em another 8-0 run, and Nevada went up by as much as 26 points with 10 minutes left.

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Not much else had to be said about the offensive performance for the rest of the second half. Camper led in scoring with 19 points as three other Pack players (Comer 12, Payton White 12 and Kaleb Lowery 12) reached…

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