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Road Trip Continues in Rockies at Colorado State, Montana
11/11/2025 10:28:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Cal Poly Men's Basketball
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SAN LUIS OBISPO – Winners of two of its opening three matchups, the Cal Poly men’s basketball program continues a six-game road trip – it’s lengthiest in four years – when visiting Colorado State on Wednesday, Nov. 12 and Montana on Friday, Nov. 14. Tip time both evenings is 6 p.m. PT for Cal Poly (2-1), which heads back on the road following a 73-71 victory at Seattle (Nov. 5) won with a buzzer-beating three-pointer from junior guard Jake Davis (right). Colorado State (2-0), which reached last year’s NCAA Tournament second round, takes an 11-game home win streak at Moby Arena into Wednesday’s matchup following a 97-74 victory against Omaha (Nov. 9). Montana (2-1), meanwhile, visits UNLV Tuesday evening before welcoming Cal Poly.
CAL POLY VERSUS COLORADO STATE: The Mustangs and Rams have met just once prior with Colorado State delivering an 87-79 home victory on Dec. 2, 1972.
CAL POLY VERSUS MONTANA: The Grizzlies have won all three previous matchups, last producing an 87-68 home win on Dec. 1, 1995. Montana also earned series wins during the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons. Cal Poly’s visit is its first to the state of Montana since a 73-57 loss at Montana State on Nov. 21, 2010.
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— Cal Poly Men’s Basketball (@calpolymbb) November 9, 2025
Jake Davis wins it for the Mustangs with a 3-pointer at the buzzer!!#RideHigh pic.twitter.com/KAug646UGj
MOUSA’S MOMENT: The only Mustang to record double-digit scoring figures through the opening three matchups, sophomore guard Hamad Mousa – who finished with 26 total points in 20 appearances at Dayton last season – leads Cal Poly and ranks seventh among Big West players at 17.7 points per game. Scoring a collegiate best 23 points against Pacific Lutheran (Nov. 5), Mousa – one of just two players from Qatar in Division I this season – also paces the Mustangs with 8.3 rebounds per night.
WARD’S SUPERB SOPHOMORE EFFORT: Activated from a potential redshirt season last winter a month into the campaign and finishing with 7.4 points per game, sophomore guard Cayden Ward has emerged as Cal Poly’s second leading scorer this year. Having already recorded a new career scoring high with 26 points against Pacific Lutheran (Nov. 5), Ward – averaging 15.0 points per game – leads Cal Poly with an 83.3 (10-for-12) percent free throw mark while shooting 46.9 (15-for-32) percent from the floor.
UNITED NATIONS: Cal Poly’s 2025-26 roster features players from nine different countries – a figure eclipsed by only UT Martin (13). Cal Poly, however, is the only Division I program this year with a roster that canvasses all six habitable continents/regions.
CLOSED PORTAL DOORS: Alongside Duke, Tennessee, American and Boston University, Cal Poly was just one of just five Division I programs not to lose a player to the transfer portal during the offseason.
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— Cal Poly Men’s Basketball (@calpolymbb) November 10, 2025
Schedule for the week is out, two away games this week!#RideHigh pic.twitter.com/xKOU0jDgEO
MUSTANGS LOOK TO BUILD OFF OF HISTORIC 2024-25 SEASON: In addition to reaching the Big West Championship semifinals for the first time in 11 years last spring during head coach Mike DeGeorge’s first season, the 2024-25 Mustangs:
- Recorded the most overall wins (16) and Big West wins (eight) since the 2012-13 season;
- Finished third among 355 Division I programs in three-pointers made (11.5) and attempted (31.8) per game, 19th with 82.1 points per game and 30th in effective field goal percentage (55.4);
- Averaged 18.4 more points per game than the 2023-24 season – the most significant turnaround in the nation and;
- Enjoyed a 12-win improvement from previous season marking the fourth most dramatic reversal among Division I programs.
SANDERS DEBUT MAKES NBA MUSTANGS TWO: Cal Poly saw a second Mustang alum make his NBA debut on Oct. 22 when guard Kobe Sanders (2020-24) – drafted 50th overall by the New York Knicks in June before being traded to the Clippers – appeared for Los Angeles. Cal Poly’s first and only NBA Draft selection since 1978, Sanders joined guard David Nwaba (2013-16) – who appeared for the Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago, Cleveland, Brooklyn and Houston between 2017 and 2022 – as the only former Mustangs to play in the NBA.
LOOKING AHEAD: The Mustangs reach the second half of their six-game road trip when visiting Utah on Thursday, Nov. 20 at 6 p.m. PT. Utah has prevailed in the only two previous matchups, last defeating Cal Poly on Dec. 16, 2006 (77-58).
ETC.: The Mustangs are in their 32nd Division I season and 82nd as a four-year program … Cal Poly’s Nov. 3 season opener at USC marked the earliest start date in program history … the Mustangs improved to 50-1 against non-Division I opposition with a 101-79 home victory against Division III Pacific Lutheran on Nov. 5 (Cal Poly transitioned to the Division I level prior to the 1994-95 season).
