New Mexico State’s men’s basketball team starts a four-game road trip with two games this week, while its women’s team plays just one game at home on Wednesday.
The Aggie men are 3-0 and are looking to start 4-0 for the first time since the 2011-12 season. NM State has defeated New Mexico Highlands, Utah Tech and Texas A&M Corpus-Christi, with the Aggies defeating the Islanders 83-82 in their latest game. Senior guard Zawdie Jackson leads NM State with 16.3 points per game.
The Aggie women are 2-1 after a 75-61 home loss to UTSA last Thursday. The Roadrunners drained 50% of their three-point shots, giving them an advantage against an NM State squad that only shot 33.3% from that same range during the contest. Graduate student guard Molly Kaiser is averaging a team-high 24.3 points per game.
Here’s everything you need to know for the Aggies’ basketball games this week:
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Men’s basketball
New Mexico State (3-0) at Dayton (4-0)
Location: University of Dayton Arena, Dayton, Ohio
Tip-off time: Nov. 20, 5 p.m.
Network: ESPN+
Radio: 99.5 FM KXPZ
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New Mexico State at UNLV (2-1)
Location: Thomas & Mack Center, Paradise, Nev.
Tip-off time: Nov. 23, 5 p.m.
Network: MW Network
Radio: 99.5 FM KXPZ
Things to know
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The Flyers, out of the Atlantic 10 Conference, reached the second round of last season’s NCAA Tournament under now-eighth-year coach Anthony Grant.
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Dayton’s leading scorer is guard Enoch Cheeks, who’s averaging 16.3 points per game and recorded 23 points in the Flyers’ last game against Ball State on Nov. 13.
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UNLV coach Kevin Kruger is in his fourth season after reaching the NIT quarterfinals last season.
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The UNLV game will act as an “Arizona Tip-Off campus site game” ahead of the tournament in Tempe, Ariz. from Nov. 29-30. NM State will face Pepperdine and either Weber State and Bowling Green in the “Desert Division” of the tournament, while UNLV faces Mississippi State and either Northwestern or Butler in the “Cactus Division”.
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The Aggies are 0-2 all-time against Dayton and 10-26 all-time against UNLV, with their last win over the latter coming in 1996.
Women’s basketball
Western New Mexico (0-3) at New Mexico State (2-1)
Location: Pan American Center, Las Cruces, NM
Tip-off time: Nov. 20, 6 p.m.
Network: ESPN+
Radio: 99.5 FM KXPZ
Things to know
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The Aggies are 17-0 against the Mustangs all-time and won last season’s matchup 89-54 in Las Cruces.
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NM State currently ranks fourth in Conference USA with a 45.5 field-goal percentage.
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The Aggies are, statistically, the worst rebounding team in CUSA so far, averaging only 32 per game.
This article originally appeared on Las Cruces Sun-News: What to know before NMSU’s men’s faces Dayton, UNLV, women face WNMU
