The New Mexico State Aggie men’s basketball team got a BIG win at the University of New Mexico on Wednesday night.
The Aggies have to beat their rivals — particularly head coach Marvin Menzies, who’s been hearing about his record against UNM and UTEP. A road win at the Pit — a tough place to play and where the Aggies haven’t won since 2002 — will give him some relief, at least until Saturday when UTEP comes to Las Cruces.
The Aggies won on the defensive end of the floor. UNM shot 28 percent on the evening and NMSU has the bodies and length up front to play good defense. We wrote that at the beginning of the year — good defense and rebounding you can pack up and win with on the road. If the Aggies are consistently good in this department, they should be just fine this year and challenge for a WAC championship.
It wasn’t the prettiest game and the Aggies would have won going away if they hit their free throws — the team went 21-of-38 from the free throw line.
Bandja Sy was big for the Aggies — big early buckets and played well down the stretch — while Wendell McKines was huge as expected — all 14 of his points came in the second half when the Aggies needed him.
Again, a great win for the Aggie men. Now they do have to follow it up Saturday with another victory over their rival UTEP.
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A good win.
Just need to maintain intensity and get the free throw bugaboo taken care of.
If ever there was a time to sweep its rivals, it's now.
MM record is now 4-13. He's got a looong way to go before he's 14-13 vs. our rivals.
I'm really happy for our players and for the fans that live in Albuturkey!
Where has the defense been all these years?
Clearly, Coach Tony Delk, who was a defensive specialist as player has already made an impact!
Enjoy this one today but, let's hope an emotional game does lead to a let down vs. the jutep whiners!
Go Aggies
I don't know who the girl was doing the broadcast on The Mountain Network but she put most national announcers to shame with her knowledge of the sport.
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