Pinson started the game 0 for 7 from the field, but back-to-back made 3-pointers pulled the Aggies closer and Avery hit a put back in the final seconds of the half. The Aggies needed a 10-1 run in the final 2:31 of the first half to make it 31-24 at halftime. Pinson had a game-high 20 points and Marchelus Avery had 16 points with 10 rebounds. State outrebounded SFA 44-36, but the Aggies had 15 turnovers. SFA finished 42 from the field and the Aggies were 39 percent. The Aggies trailed by as many as 16 in the first half, but guard Xavier Pinson made it a 42-39 lead with just over 14 minutes to play with a pair of free throws.īut SFA pushed the lead back to 51-39 with three straight made 3-pointers and the Aggies could not mount another serious threat. Once again at the start of the game, we got down with seven turnovers in the first nine minutes of the game." "Now we have to compete at this level and play smarter as a group. "I'm not disappointed in our effort," Aggies head coach Greg Heiar said in his postgame radio comments. The Aggies host California Baptist at 7 p.m., on Saturday at the Pan American Center. State lost four straight games was 2013-14, but the Aggies have never lost four straight WAC games. The Aggies rattled off four straight WAC championships the next four years. The last non-COVID three-game WAC losing streak was in 2010-11, where key Aggie players suffered a number of injuries and the team finished 16-17 under Marvin Menzies. The Aggies opened WAC play with two losses at Grand Canyon, and then lost a "home" game to California Baptist in El Paso.
SFA WAC CONFERENCE SERIES
State started a season 0-3 in WAC play was the COVID-19 shortened 2020-21 season, where the Aggies could not play home games and conference series were decided on back-to-back nights in the same location. SFA moved to 3-0 in Western Athletic Conference play and New Mexico State dropped to 0-3 in WAC play. New Mexico State fell down early and lost 69-60 at Stephen F.
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