The NMSU men's basketball team suspended team activities for the second time this season due to COVID, which postponed their WAC opener against Dixie State.
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 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.
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)."
Earlier this week, the Mountain West released the league model for the upcoming season, featuring an eight conference schedule plus two non-conference opponents and a start date set for Sept. 26. This complicates things for the college football season in the area.
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...