Photo courtesy of Spartan Athletics.

By Titus Wilkinson (@TitusWisme)

SAN JOSE- The Spartans looking to end their losing ways returned home to take on Fresno State on Tuesday night.

Heading into this one SJSU was coming off a two-game road trip where they played Utah State and Nevada and unfortunately lost both.

Both games weren’t particularly close though in the Spartans defense neither team they faced are exactly pushovers.

Fresno State had also lost their past two games as they played UNLV and Colorado State. The Spartans extended their losing streak to six games with a 69-57 deficit.

The first half in this one got off to quite the back-and-forth start as both teams exchanged buckets.

The Bulldogs began to pull away at 12:54 when they managed to pull together a 17-10 lead helped in particular by Jalen Weaver’s quick start.

San Jose State never let the first half get too far away from them as Trey Anderson tied the game up at 19 at 9:02.

Once again the teams went back to exchanging buckets with Fresno’s Xavier DuSell shining in particular at the end as he dropped 11 points in the last couple minutes of the first.

The first half ended with the Bulldogs holding onto a slim one-point lead over SJSU 34-33.

SJSU shot a rather average 45.45% from the field while going 2-8 from three. Alvaro Cardenas lead the Spartans in the first half with ten points.

Christain Wise lead by far in rebounds though for the Spartans snagging six in just one half.

Not skipping a beat Fresno got off to a 6-0 run to start the second half as SJSU quickly fell behind.

With the score at 43-40 in favor of Fresno the teams would proceed to not score a point from 15:46 until 12:28 when Myron Amey Jr. finally broke the cold streak.

SJSU would then actually take the lead on the next bucket as Garrett Anderson sunk a three.

They then began to seemingly pull away holding onto a five-point lead with just 10:46 left in the game.

The Bulldogs were able to get their lead back at 8:24 leading to the teams exchanging the lead back-and-forth making it a down-to-the-wire finish.

A 7-0 run by Fresno seemed to seal the deal as once again DuSell hit a clutch three with Trey Anderson fouling on the play making it a 64-57 game.

Isaiah Pope sunk the last bucket of the game for Fresno ending the game at 69-57 with SJSU unable to pull out the victory.

What really doomed the home team in the second was their shooting as they shot an egregious 32.14% from the field.

Cardenas would end up leading the Spartans in points on the night as he scored 12 while going 6-16.

If there was any positive on the night Tibet Goerner made San Jose State history as he broke the record for three-pointers made with 162.

For SJSU it’ll be back to the drawing board as they try to snap this six-game losing streak.

They will hope to end it on Friday against Colorado State on the road at 6:30 p.m. PST.