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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State women’s basketball team is officially dancing for the first time in 27 years as the Western Athletic Conference regular season and tournament champions were selected by the NCAA Tournament Committee as a 16th seed in the NCAA Tournament and will face the No. 1 seed Maryland Terrapins in the Spokane Region.

The Aggies (22-7, 13-1 WAC) meet Maryland (30-2, 18-0 Big 10) in College Park, Md., on Saturday, Mar. 21, beginning at 10:30 a.m. (MDT) inside the XFINITY Center. If NM State should pull the upset they will play on Monday at the XFINITY Center against the winner of the Princeton-Green Bay matchup.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State women’s basketball team’s magical season continued on Monday after the Western Athletic Conference announced the team has picked up the conference’s coach and player of the year awards as voted on by the eight WAC head coaches.

Head coach Mark Trakh is the 2014-15 WAC Coach of the Year while sophomore Brianna Freeman has been tabbed the 2014-15 WAC Player of the Year.

This is the first time the Aggies have received either a coach or player of the year by the WAC. The last NM State head coach to garner a conference coach of the year honor was Joe McKeown who was tabbed as the High Country Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1988, which was also the last season the Aggies, then Roadrunners, made the NCAA Tournament.   Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - New Mexico State women’s basketball sophomore Brianna Freeman continues to make her case for the Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year as the forward from Killeen, Texas, has been named the WAC Player of the Week for the second-consecutive week, the conference announced Monday.

Freeman finished with 21 points and 13 rebounds, both game highs, in an 80-60 win over Texas-Pan American on Saturday as the Aggies secured an outright conference title, their first-ever WAC regular-season championship and the first conference title for the program in 20 years.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - New Mexico State women’s basketball point guard Shanice Davis has been named the Western Athletic Conference Player of the Week for the week of Jan. 12-18 by both the conference and College Sports Madness, each entity announced Monday.

The junior transfer from Killeen, Texas, led the Aggies to a couple of WAC victories last week after marking career highs in both points and assists. She finished the week averaging 22.5 points, 5.5 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 2.5 steals per game while shooting .455 from the field and .313 from 3-point land.

“Shanice did a great job this week, scoring 32 points against Bakersfield and making many big shots against Seattle while setting up teammates with eight assists,” Aggie head coach Mark Trakh said. “She has had a great season for us and has been a bright, great floor general and leader. We’re very proud of what she has accomplished thus far this season.”  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - New Mexico State sophomore Moriah Mack has been named the Western Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week for the week of Dec. 8-14, the conference announced Monday.

This is the first player of the week nod for the 5-8 guard from San Antonio, Texas, and Reagan High School. It is also the second-consecutive WAC Player of the Week honor for NM State this season as junior Sasha Weber won the award for the week of Dec. 1-7.

“Moriah is playing very well right now, she’s playing great defense and she is starting to look for her shot more,” Aggie head coach Mark Trakh said. “She’s shooting at a great percentage, so she needs to shoot it more. She is playing every possession extremely hard. We are all very proud of her.”  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - New Mexico State guard Sasha Weber has been named the Western Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week by the conference and by College Sports Madness, both entities announced on Monday.

The 6-foot junior from Lacey, Wash., earns her first WAC Player of the Week honor after a breakout week for the Aggies, marking a career-high 23 points, not once, but during both NM State games this past week en route to helping the Aggies pick up their first two wins of the season, including a win over rival New Mexico for the first time in over seven years.

“Sasha had great all-around games last week, especially against UNM,” Aggie head coach Mark Trakh said. “She played well offensively, rebounded, defended and had a great floor game. She also added some big shots when we really needed them. We are all very proud of her performance.”  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - With the 2014-15 season opener days away, New Mexico State women’s basketball head coach Mark Trakh is already bolstering his lineup for next season, as Jeneva Toilolo and Brooke Salas both signed National Letters of Intent on Wednesday to play for the Aggies beginning next fall.

Toilolo hails from Honolulu, Hawai’i, where she is entering her senior year at Farrington High School. The 6-foot-3 forward averaged 16.7 points per game as a junior last season. She had six games where she scored at least 20 points.

“Jeneva at 6-3, plus Tyesha Taylor who is 6-4 and redshirting this year, will both give us something that we have been missing since I've been at NM State,” Trakh said, “and that's a big, quality inside game. Jeneva can post up and shoot the 17-footer. We will go from an average size team to a very big team next year with the addition of Jeneva.”  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS VEGAS, NV - The Western Athletic Conference announced its preseason coaches’ poll and media poll along with its All-WAC selections for women’s basketball during its annual Media Day in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

New Mexico State was predicted to finish fifth in the conference by the coaches with 29 total points, and in a tie for third place with Texas-Pan American by the media.

“We’re really excited about the upcoming season,” Aggie head coach Mark Trakh said. “We’re excited about the direction of our program and I think we’ll be very competitive this year.”

Aggie juniors Sasha Weber and Abby Scott are part of the All-WAC preseason teams. Weber was honored as a first team All-WAC member in both polls while Scott was placed on the second team All-WAC list in both polls.  Continue Reading This Post >>

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - New Mexico State head women’s basketball coach Mark Trakh announced Tuesday that senior Danesia Williamson has been dismissed from the team due to academic ineligibility.

Williamson sat out the first half of the 2013-14 season for the same reason, but came back during Western Athletic Conference play to have five 30-point games and set a new WAC and NM State record with 17 free throws made in the quarterfinals of the 2014 conference tournament. She sank a career-high 37 points in the same game and scored 20 or more points in 21 of her 22 games. She was named First Team All-WAC following the success of her junior campaign.