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March, 12 2010 11:59pm EST
ATS: New Mexico State Aggies +6 (-110)
WIN for +4.55 unit(s)

New Mexico State Aggies at Nevada Wolf Pack

The third time hopes to be a charm for New Mexico St. The Aggies have lost the first two meetings against Nevada this season and they will now have to keep their NCAA Tournament hopes alive by winning the third meeting on Nevada’s home floor. This team is more than capable of doing so in my opinion. I have used the same verbiage a few times and will go almost verbatim once again. The Aggies started the season at 3-6 and that slow start can be attributed to a number of reasons but mostly it was due to not being at close to full strength. That is not that case anymore as New Mexico St. has everyone back and the biggest returnee was forward Wendell McKines. He has been back for 21 games and it is no surprise that the Aggies are 16-5 in those games with two losses coming against Nevada and another coming against Utah St. He is averaging 10.8 ppg and 10.0 rpg and his presence makes this team nearly complete. To make things even better, the Aggies got forward Troy Gillenwater back 10 games ago as he was reinstated from being academically ineligible. All he’s done in his first 10 games back is average 13.7 ppg and 6.5 rpg and it the best sixth man in the conference. The high-scoring backcourt combined with the new solid frontcourt of McKines, Gillenwater and center Hamidu Rahman, make New Mexico St. a tough matchup for anybody in the WAC as the Aggies now possess five double-digit scorers. The fifth starter is point guard Hernst Laroche who has a tidy 2.06 assist/turnover ratio. Nevada is strong and playing on its home floor is big but I do not see the Wolf Pack matching their first two efforts in this series. They shot 52.5 percent in the first meeting and 56.5 percent in the second meeting yet the games were far from blowouts. The thing is that the Aggies can match Nevada point for point but they had poor shooting efforts in the first two meetings. Nevada’s defense is not that good to hold them down for three straight games. The Aggies are the most athletic and the most talented team in the league and they now just need to prove it. 9* New Mexico St. Aggies

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