New Mexico State 91, Prairie View A&M 60
LAS CRUCES, N.M. –(NMSU Media Relations) The New Mexico State men’s basketball team improved to 7-1 after defeating Prairie View A&M, 91-60, on Wednesday night inside the Pan American Center. The Aggies have won seven-straight games after losing their first game of the season to Western Michigan in Hawai’i. The Panthers, meanwhile fall to 1-5.
Not only was it the 15th-consecutive win for NM State in front of its home crowd, it was also the 550th win for the Aggie men’s basketball program inside the Pan American Center.
NM State was led by its 7-foot-5 sophomore center Sim Bhullar who etched his name in the Aggie record books by finishing with 10 total blocks, breaking the record for most individual blocks in a game held by former NM State player James Moore who had eight blocks on Feb. 7, 2004.
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Texas-Pan American 66, Lamar 61
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BEAUMONT – (UTPA Media Relations) Sophomore Shaquille Hines scored a career-high 18 points with a career-high 11 rebounds for his first-career double-double to lead the University of Texas-Pan American Broncs past the Lamar University Cardinals 66-61 on Wednesday at the Montagne Center.
Hines made a career-high eight field goals in 16 attempts while recording two assists, one block and two steals. Five of his rebounds were offensive. He was one of three Broncs (4-4) in double-figures, along with graduate student Javorn Farrell, who scored a game-high 22 points on 8-of-14 shooting with six rebounds and one steal, and senior Jamal Dantzler, who scored a season-high 10 points on 4-of-4 shooting with five rebounds, one block and a career-high two steals.
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Boise State 98, Idaho 89
BOISE, Idaho – The Idaho men’s basketball team nearly dug itself out of a 23-point second-half deficit, but couldn’t get over the hump in a 98-89 loss at Boise State on Wednesday.
Idaho trailed 77-54 with less than eight minutes to play but chipped away over the next seven minutes to make it a two-possession game at 94-89 with 42 seconds left. But the Broncos went 4-for-4 from the free throw line in the last 40 seconds to ice the game.
“I was really proud of our guys,” Idaho coach Don Verlin said. “Sometimes when you get down 20 with a young team, they quit, but these guys didn’t do that tonight. We kept fighting. We showed our passion and we represented the University of Idaho well tonight and battled all the way to the end.”
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