LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – With New Mexico State in the process of trying to rebuild the reputation of its men’s basketball program, a player involved in one of the program’s controversies is leaving. NMSU center Mike Peake has entered the transfer portal. The news comes four months following Peake’s involvement in a deadly shooting
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — NMSU officially introduced Jason Hooten as the 28th head coach of the men’s basketball program on Sunday in front of more than 400 people in the Pan American Center. Hooten takes over the reigns less than a year after Greg Heiar was hired. The change in coach comes after
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Aggies were looking for three straight wins on Saturday and their first series win of the season but instead NMSU came up short against UTRGV. NM State once again relied on the home run in Saturday’s contest as Preston Godfrey and Nick Gore both went deep. Gore’s home run marked the second straight
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – The waiting game continues in Las Cruces as New Mexico State appears to have zeroed-in on a candidate for their men’s basketball head coach vacancy. While no official word has come from NMSU, a source tells ABC-7 the frontrunner for the job is Jason Hooten, the current head basketball coach
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LEXINGTON, Kentucky (KVIA) — New Mexico State Women’s Basketball (18-17, 10-8 WAC) season has officially come to an end in Kentucky after falling to California Baptist (22-13, 13-5 WAC) in a tightly contested game that went down to the final shot.The Aggies battled back from multiple double-digit deficits with the help Molly Kaiser’s 19-point performance. Sylena Peterson and Tayelin Grays also played
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LEXINGTON, KY (KVIA) — It’s taken 49 years, but the Aggies finally have their first win in the postseason after they defeated the University of Illinois Chicago 51-41 in the first round of the Women’s Basketball Invitational. It was a low scoring game that saw both teams combine to make just 32 shots, with Sylena
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A source close to the University told ABC-7 that the search for an NMSU Men’s Basketball head coach is now down to eight. ABC-7 has compiled a list of eight names, in no particular order, based off of reports we’ve seen, people we’ve spoken to and who we think would
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — It may have taken 14 games but the Aggies finally have their first win of the season. That 23-2 win over Ottawa (Ariz.) moves them to 1-13 on the season and helps them avoid equaling the programs worst ever start to the season which was 0-14 in 1968. The Aggies
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — NM State women’s basketball are set for postseason play after accepting an invitation to the Women’s Basketball Invitational (WBI). It’s the Aggies sixth postseason appearance in nine years and the tenth in program history. The eight-team tournament will see NMSU play The University of Illinois-Chicago this Friday at 1:30
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — The nightmare start to the 2023 season continued for NM State in Phoenix over the weekend. Sunday’s contest was close until Grand Canyon exploded for six runs in the eighth inning. The Aggies refused to go down quietly, scoring four runs in the ninth, but came up short as
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — NM State Baseball ended last season with a cinderella run few saw coming – they won the WAC and got the automatic bid to the tournament and the hope was that this season they’d pick up right where they left off. Instead through ten games in the season the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — This time last year the Aggies were just days away from winning the WAC, getting the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament and beating UCONN in the first round. This year? The team isn’t seeing a second of postseason play. Instead the University has cleared some players to participate in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – The I-10 rivalry between UTEP and NMSU moves to the 4000 block of North Mesa street with dueling billboards. The signs are now going viral on social media. NMSU rented a billboard reading “You’d look better in Crimson” less than a mile down the road from UTEP in November. UTEP
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — In day two of the NM State round robin, NMSU came out on the winning end in both of their games while UTEP couldn’t secure a win. UTEP dropped its morning matchup against Northern Colorado, 8-7, in another extra-inning game, while they fell 4-1 to NM State in the 52nd Battle
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Day one of the NM State round robin saw University of Northern Colorado, UTEP and NMSU all play two games. The Bears and Miners were up first. The Miners outhit the Bears 11-7, but the extra-inning comeback fell short as Northern Colorado won the game, 7-6, with a walk-off home run
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Aggies were handed their ninth loss of the season with a home run from Pacific in the tenth inning to win 4-3. Pacific got off to a blazing start in the first inning. The first two hitters each reached safely on a pair of singles before a sacrifice bunt
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — After seven games and no wins the Aggies were seemingly restarting their season on Friday night after head coach Mike Kirby was fired on Thursday. Interim coach Keith Zuniga hoping to get his first win at the helm and help the Aggies to their first win of the season but
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — It’s been nearly three weeks since Chancellor Dan Arvizu suspended the NMSU men’s basketball program. Since then, we’ve seen the firing of the then-head coach Greg Heiar, several players leaving the program and former commits going back on the market. But a lot is still set to transpire as
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — After winning the WAC Tournament last season, there were high expectations on the Aggies ahead of this season and so far NM State have done anything but live up to them. On Sunday morning, NM State slipped 9-3 to Seton Hall in the weekend finale of the Sugar Land
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(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – On Wednesday morning, NM State Athletics announced its plan of action regarding refunds to men’s basketball season ticket holders for the cancelled portion of the 2022-23 season. Director of Athletics Mario Moccia announced fans may either receive a refund or use their refund amount as a credit
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Unlike the first two games of the series NM State were finding runs against Bellarmine but in extra innings it was the Knights who got the best of the Aggies, winning 10-9 in 11 innings. The Aggies totaled 9 runs on Sunday, triple the amount they picked up in
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — In one season Jerry Kill has become a fan favorite, not only because he took the Aggies to a bowl game but also for the ponchos he wears, how he embraces the community and now the Aggie tattoo that will forever sit on his arm. Yes you read that
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Aggies struggles at the plate continued on Saturday as they scored just the one run which came in the final inning. NMSU managed 13 strikeouts and 6 hits on Saturday afternoon at Presley Askew Field in their 8-1 loss to Bellarmine. That loss sees them move to 0-2 to
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Aggies have already secured a spot in the WAC Tournament so now it becomes about finding form at the right time. New Mexico State (14-13, 8-7 WAC) was unable to make it two-straight wins, falling to California Baptist (15-11, 11-4) 73-65 on Saturday afternoon at the Pan American Center.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — NMSU athletics starts the week off reeling from a weekend whirlwind after an abrupt suspension, followed by serious allegations of hazing involving the repeated sexual assault of one of the team’s players by three of his teammates. As the community continues to ask questions, ABC-7 is reaching out to authorities
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — After a police report related to the suspension of the New Mexico State University basketball team revealed serious allegations of sexual assault against three of the team’s players by one of their very own teammates, community members in Las Cruces are reacting. “Oh my God. That’s absolutely awful. Nobody
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Aggies fans are reacting after sources close to NMSU confirmed the university’s men’s basketball game on Friday was suspended due to reports of hazing. “It’s a real disappointment. Especially for the seniors on this New Mexico State basketball team, to have their season ended the way it did. And
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(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) ARLINGTON, Texas – On Thursday afternoon, the Western Athletic Conference announced it’s preseason honors and the preseason coaches’ poll. The Aggies have been picked to finish seventh ahead of the season, trailing a three-way tie between Abilene Christian, UTRGV, and Sacramento State. Logan Gallina and Kevin Jimenez were named to the Preseason All-WAC Team. Ahead of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Aggies may have secured their first two wins in WAC play last week but on Wednesday night in front of a rowdy and intense GCU crowd they couldn’t get their first road win in WAC play. NMSU struggled early finding themselves down 11-2 but that first half lead would
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — In the span of three days NMSU have gone from winless in WAC play, to securing two wins against two teams in the top five of the WAC. Could this be the start of something new? If you watched the start of their game against Seattle U on Saturday
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