Nevada here on Tuesday

Nevada (12-14, 7-6) welcomes San Jose State University in on Tuesday but which Wolf Pack team will appear? The one that beat the Spartans earlier or the squad currently on a four game losing streak? (Utah State on the road 83-75, San Diego State on the road 73-58, 75-67 in Reno versus Fresno State and 90-72 in the Pit against New Mexico)

On January 1, Coach David Carter's guys took a 62-50 win at Walt McPherson Court. The game writeup:

When you are playing a jumpshot-centric, four-out offense, the ball needs to be entering the cylinder at a decent rate in order to emerge victorious. That didn't happen for the Spartans tonight (35% shooting) as visiting Nevada nabbed a 12 point victory, 62-50, via a strong second 20 minutes (37-24).
But it wasn't as if the Wolf Pack were all that zeroed in with their own shooting, as 1-12 from long distance exemplifies.
However, Nevada newcomer in the middle, AJ West, got thisclose to a double-double with 15 points (6-8 shooting) plus nine boards and a pair of rejections. That is double his points per game average coming into this matchup. West was known primarily as a shotblocker coming in -- 10.9 points, 8.9 rebounds and a nations best 5.1 blocks per outing at Monroe Community College as a sophomore -- so this was an unexpected offensive performance.
Star backcourter Deonte Burton led the Reno-ites with 18 points (coming in averaging 22.5) as he and West were the only Nevadans in double figures. The second-leading scorer on the Wolf Pack roster at 15.3 points a contest, Jerry Evans, scored just eight (3-11 shooting).
6-foot-7 Cole Huff rebounded particularly well, finishing with 10 as Coach David Carter's squad won the rebounding battle 37-30, 13 offensively, this despite a lack of depth on the frontline.
Devante Wilson was the main scorer for SJSU, concluding with a very efficient 18 points (4-7 from three-point range) plus five rebounds. The Wolf Pack defended Rashad Muhammad quite well, limiting him to five points on five shots in 33 minutes.

At this pont, Deonte Burton has upped his points per game average to 20.1. 6-foot-7 Cole Huff has enjoyed some very solid games of late -- a high of 31 aided by six treys versus Fresno State -- and sits at 12.0 points an outing while 6-foot-8 Jerry Evans is contributing 13.2 as well as 6.2 rebounds each night. Shooting guard Michael Perez is the fourth double-figures scorer at 11.6 per contest.

Frontcourter A.J. West ranks as the top boardman at 7.6 but his 7.5 points a game is sustained primarily on putbacks and the like. Do credit him for 40 blocked shots in 15 games though.

One idea is try and force Nevada to shoot more treys than Coach Carter wishes as Burton is at 32% and Perez 34% in that endeavor.

Chris Cunningham has been playing better of late for SJSU but West's defensive play will be a major challenge. To his credit, Cunningham did post a 10 point, eight rebound line against West on New Year's Day.

If Rashad Muhammad's ankle and the effects of a concussion on Jalen James haven't improved, then it will be trouble depth-wise as the former played 33 minutes and the latter 26 in the earlier matchup. While it's true that neither came away with impressive numbers that night, spreading those minutes out among teammates may produce greater levels of fatigue, especially defensively, to those able to go.