The 2012–13 San Jose State Spartans men's basketball team representsed
San Jose State University during the
2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began in November with the 2K Sports Classic and ended with the Final Four in Atlanta, April 6–8.
Season headlines
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. The Spartans, led by eighth year head coach
George Nessman
George Raymond Nessman II (born March 22, 1959) is an American athletic administrator and former college basketball coach who is the current athletic director at Justin-Siena High School. Nessman coached at the high school and community college l ...
, played their home games at the
Event Center Arena and were members of the
Western Athletic Conference. They finished the season 9–20, 3–14 in WAC play to finish in a tie for eighth place. They lost in the first round of the
WAC tournament to UTSA.
This was their last season as a member of the WAC. San Jose State joined the
Mountain West Conference in July 2013. San Jose State fired Nessman on March 13, the day after the final game.
Preseason roster changes
Departures
Incoming transfers
Recruits
Roster
Suspensions
James Kinney, the team's leading scorer, was suspended twice in the season for violating team rules: once for the December 22, 2012 game against James Madison and again beginning with the January 11, 2013 game against Utah State.
On February 8, coach Nessman confirmed that Kinney's suspension would continue until the end of the season; the ''San Jose Mercury News'' reported that the suspension "is believed to be related to academics."
After Kinney's second suspension, San Jose State's scoring average went down 15 points to 49.8, and the team never won a game for the rest of the season.
Starting forward Louis Garrett was also indefinitely suspended on January 11 for a violation of team rules but was reinstated on January 24.
Two more players were suspended after Kinney. Chris Jones was suspended beginning February 28, and Alex Brown was suspended beginning March 2.
Jones was suspended after San Jose State student newspaper ''The Spartan Daily'' published a comment of his saying that Nessman "should have been fired a long time ago."
Schedule
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WAC tournament
March 7's game vs UTSA was canceled due to a leak in the roof at The Events Center Arena. The game was not made up.
References
External links
2012-13 San Jose State men's basketball media guide
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