Street Journey Continues Tuesday at Nevada

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Overall: 5-3
Mountain West: 0-0
Home: 4-1
Away: 0-1
Neutral: 1-1
vs. Ranked Opponents: 0-0
Streak: W1

WHAT’S NEXT

UC San Diego begins protection of its Big West title on Saturday as convention play begins for the Tritons at Long Beach State. Game time is scheduled for six p.m. from LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid, with a stay broadcast on ESPN+ and a hyperlink to stay stats on UCSDTritons.com.

 

LAST TIME OUT: TRITONS 87, TOWSON 73 Stats

UC San Diego knocked down a season-best 16 three-pointers and bought 16 factors from junior Leo Beath because the Tritons defeated Towson, 87-73, to win the Adventure Bracket on the Terry’s Chocolate ESPN Events Invitational at Walt Disney World. Nine completely different Tritons buried a three-pointer within the win, tying an NCAA Division I single recreation document.

 

The Tritons shot 64% from distance and 60.4% total Wednesday afternoon to assert the event title. Beath led the way in which with 16 factors and was named the event’s Most Valuable Player. Aidan Burke added 14 factors on 4-of-5 from deep, Emanuel Prospere II scored 11, Tom Beattie scored ten with six assists and Hudson Mayes was 4-for-4 from the sphere, contributing ten factors. Wednesday was UC San Diego’s second recreation of the season with 5 gamers scoring 10 or extra factors.

 

Tyler Tejada paced Towson (5-3) with a game-high 27 factors.

  

LAST TIME VS. NEVADA: WOLF PACK 64, TRITONS 56 Stats

Two Tritons scored in double figures, however host Nevada fought off a hard-charging UC San Diego squad for a 64-56 victory in entrance of 6,693 inside Lawlor Events Center. Neither workforce led by greater than six factors all night time till a pair of Wolf Pack free throws within the recreation’s ultimate seconds.

 

Bryce Pope scored 14 and Francis Nwaokorie scored a season-high 13 for the Tritons (4-6). The Wolf Pack remained unbeaten at residence (5-0) whereas bettering to 9-3 total.

 

MICKEY’S MOST VALUABLE

First yr Triton Leo Beath was named Most Valuable Player on the Terry’s Chocolate ESPN Events Invitational, main UC San Diego to 3 wins in three days at Walt Disney World. Beath averaged 23.7 factors per recreation, capturing 61.9% over three video games. He drained 9-of-13 three-point makes an attempt (69.2%) and averaged 4 rebounds and 1.7 steals per recreation within the victories over Temple, Bradley, and Towson.

 

DRAINING ‘EM FROM DISTANCE

UC San Diego tied an NCAA Division I single recreation document when 9 Tritons sank three-pointers in a win over Towson at Walt Disney World (Nov. 26). Over the three-day event, UC San Diego shot 51.9% from past the arc – hitting 40 of 77 makes an attempt. The Tritons lead The Big West in three-point area aim share (42.3%) and threes per recreation (11.0).

 

THE BIG WEST HONORS BEATH

UC San Diego junior Leo Beath was named The Big West Men’s Basketball Player of the Week (Nov. 17). The honor is the primary for Beath and the primary for a Triton over the younger season’s two weeks. Beath averaged 18.5 factors and 6.5 rebounds main the Tritons to a pair of wins that week. He shot 58.3% (14-24) and knocked down six of 13 three-point tries. His 5 three-pointers in a win at Fresno State (Nov. 12) set a profession excessive.

 

CAREER-BEST EFFORTS

First yr Triton Leo Beath drained a profession excessive 5 three-pointers in a win at Fresno State (Nov. 12).

 

First yr Triton Tom Beattie scored a profession excessive 18 factors in a Homecoming win over HCU (Nov. 3). Beattie was 7-for-12 from the ground, flattening a pair of three-pointers within the win.

 

GOING STREAKING

Dating again to January, UC San Diego has received 20 consecutive common season video games – the longest energetic streak within the nation. Including the postseason, the Tritons are 25-3 in 2025.

 

TAKING THE LONG ROAD

UC San Diego is within the midst of a 34-day stretch between residence video games – the longest such stretch for the Tritons of their Division I or II period (2000-present). This yr’s squad will journey 6,042 miles between their Nov. 15 residence recreation vs. Idaho and Dec. 19 residence recreation vs. USD. The final time UC San Diego was away from La Jolla for greater than 30 days was a 31-day stint in 2007-08.

 

EAST COAST TRITONS

The Tritons have received their final eight common season video games performed within the Eastern Time Zone after successful the Terry’s Chocolate ESPN Events Invitational in November. Last season in Daytona Beach, UC San Diego beat La Salle, James Madison and Toledo to win the Boardwalk Battle. The Tritons additionally received at George Washington and Eastern Michigan in 2022.

 

TRIPLE DIGITS

UC San Diego scored 105 factors in its season-opening win over La Verne (Nov. 3). The Tritons reached the century mark 3 times final season.

 

NO PLACE LIKE HOME

UC San Diego has turned LionTree Arena into a real residence court docket benefit, boasting a 30-4 document in La Jolla over the previous two-plus seasons.

 

GOT THE FIRST ONE

When the Tritons beat La Verne within the season opener (Nov. 3), that marked the primary victory within the head teaching profession of Clint Allard ’08.

 

2024-25 REWIND

UC San Diego is coming off an historic season during which the Tritons received 30 video games, a Big West common season and event title, and took 14th-ranked Michigan to the wire within the NCAA Tournament – all in this system’s first season with Division I postseason eligibility. In truth, UC San Diego turned the primary program in NCAA historical past to ship its males’s and girls’s groups to March Madness in its first season eligible to take action.

 

NEW-LOOK TRITONS

Head coach Clint Allard added ten newcomers to the Tritons’ roster for the 2025-26 season: eight transfers and two first-year scholar-athletes. Leo Beath (Lynn), Tom Beattie (Hawai’i), Alex Chaikin (Lafayette), Bol Dengdit (Portland), Tyson Dunn (Buffalo), Trap Johnson (Montana State), Emanuel Prospere II (Missouri-St. Louis), and Dimitrije Vukicevic (Washington State) transferred to UC San Diego. Hudson Mayes (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Jaden Vance (Phoenix, Ariz.) joined the roster as freshmen.

 

TRITONS IN THE PROS

Three Tritons from final yr’s Big West Championship workforce are enjoying professionally this yr. Tyler McGhie is enjoying for Gipuzkoa Basket in Spain, Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones is competing with Valmiera Glass in Latvia, and Hayden Gray is enjoying within the NBA G League for the Maine Celtics (Boston).

 

About UC San Diego Athletics

After 20 years as probably the most profitable packages in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program has begun a brand new period as a member of The Big West in NCAA Division I. The 24-sport Tritons earned 30 workforce and almost 150 particular person nationwide championships throughout its time in Divisions II and III and helped information 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A complete of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, whereas 38 have garnered prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the tutorial beliefs of one of many world’s preeminent establishments, graduating at a mean charge of 90 %, the very best charge amongst public establishments in NCAA Division I or II. For extra info on the Tritons, go to UCSDtritons.com or comply with UC San Diego Athletics on social media @UCSDtritons.