The UTEP men's basketball program will serve as a substitute for NM State and face the Arizona Wildcats on Saturday, Dec. 12, in the McKale Center (Tucson, Arizona).
After 24 hours, the NMSU Athletic Department has raised $15,000 from their 'Donate-4-State' initiative to offset costs for their basketball teams in Arizona.
NMSU announced that their men's basketball team will relocate to Phoenix, Arizona for the next five weeks and practice at the Arizona Grand Resort and Spa.
The 2020-21 UTEP men's basketball schedule features a pair of tough road games, and another three to five non-conference games could still be added to the mix.
The New Mexico state men's and women's basketball teams are considering other sites in Arizona, Nevada, and Texas to relocate for the remainder of 2020.
NMSU became the first Division 1 school to have a licensed whiskey when they launched Pistol Pete's Six-Shooter rye whiskey along with Dry Point Distillers.
As UTEP and UTSA are preparing for their Saturday night football clash, these two Texas schools have started to develop a rivalry that could continue to grow.
The latest college football casualty is New Mexico State, which announced early Thursday morning that the program will postpone the fall season to spring due to "COVID player health & safety concerns as well as 14-day quarantine requirement when traveling back into (New Mexico)."
This morning we learned that one of the all-time Aggie greats is now coaching in heaven. Lou Henson, who led NMSU to the 1970 Final Four and twenty years later returned to guide the Aggies men's basketball team, died Saturday at the age of 88...