LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The defending undisputed Western Athletic Conference Champion and four-consecutive WAC Tournament Champion NM State Aggies (3-1) conclude their home action the Air Force Classic multi-team event on Tuesday night as they host the Robert Morris Colonials (0-4) at 7 p.m. in the Pan American Center. The Aggies are coming off an 85-46 win over Mississippi Valley State in Classic play on Saturday. The Colonials lost at Air Force 64-52 on Sunday afternoon.
 
SERIES RECORD: This is the first-ever meeting between the Aggies and Robert Morris.
 
MEDIA COVERAGE: Saturday's game can be heard live on the Aggie Sports Network and over the Las Cruces radio airwaves on KWML, 570AM with NM State Hall of Famer Jack Nixon on the call.
 
The game will be televised by AggieVision with Adam Young (play-by-play) and Patrick Knapp (analyst). The telecast will be carried by Comcast Cable in New Mexico and also air live on Fox Sports Arizona (DirecTV 686, Dish 415/5415), Fox College Sports, Altitude 2, and ESPN3.
 
LIVE STATS ON THE WEB: Live stats are available for most games at www.nmstatesports.com at no cost all season long and.
 
THE AIR FORCE CLASSIC: The Air Force Classic is a multi-team event that allows the participants to add additional games to its schedule through an NCAA exemption as long as no more than four games are played by each participant and the event takes no more than two weeks to complete. The games may be played at any site. Joining Air Force and the Aggies are Tennessee Tech, Mississippi Valley State and Robert Morris. Air Force is the host of the event and has all four of its games at home, while NM State received three home games and will travel to Air Force for the fourth. The other three teams will visit the USAFA and NM State then go to Tennessee Tech where they play a round-robin against each other on the weekend after Thanksgiving. Air Force is 3-0 in the Classic, NM State 2-0, Robert Morris 0-1, Tennessee Tech 0-2, and Mississippi Valley 0-2.
 
ABOUT THE AGGIES: The Aggies host the third of three home games in the Air Force Classic multi-team event, before closing the event by visiting Air Force on Saturday.
 
This is the final game of a five-game homestand for the Aggies, marking the first time since the 2003-04 season (under Hall of Fame Coach Lou Henson) that the Aggies have opened the season with five consecutive home games.
 
Sophomore Pascal Siakam was named the WAC Player of the Week for the second time in two weeks this season after continuing to lead the WAC in scoring (25.0), blocked shots (1.75) and ranking second in rebounds (11.5).
 
The Aggies are off on the right foot after posting a 23-11 campaign in 2014-15 that included a 13-1 WAC record and the outright regular season championship.
 
The Aggies are also coming off winning a record fourth consecutive WAC Tournament. No other program in the history of the Western Athletic Conference has ever won more than two straight tournaments.
 
The Aggies are also coming off appearing in four consecutive NCAA Tournaments, and five in the last six seasons. The Ags are aiming to match the school record of five straight appearances set first from 1967-to-1971 under Lou Henson and then again from 1990-to-1994 under Neil McCarthy.
 
NM State is back on the winning track with two straight seeing after its 11-game winning streak at the Pan American Center was snapped with the 83-74 loss to New Mexico on Nov. 15. It was the first loss on the parquet floor since a 58-57 overtime loss to No. 24/25 Colorado State on Dec. 27, 2014. Still, since the start of the 2012-13 season, the Aggies sport a 47-5 record at the Pan Am (.904).
 
In the last 59 contests played by NM State at the Pan Am, the Aggies are 54-5 (.915).
 
Siakam added another great game last Wednesday against Tennessee Tech, with 30 points, 11 rebounds and four assists. He became the first Aggie to score 30 since Daniel Mullings on Jan. 25, 2014 scored 32 at UT Pan American (now UT Rio Grande Valley).
 
Siakam was named by the media as the WAC Preseason Player of the Year. Last season's WAC Freshman of the Year, Siakam averaged 12.4 points, leading the WAC in field goal percentage (.572) and blocked shots (61, 1.8 per game). Siakam was named to the Preseason All-WAC First Team by both the coaches and media.
 
Junior Ian Baker was named to the Preseason All-WAC First Team by both the coaches and media. Baker led the WAC in 3-point field goal percentage (34-58, .457) last season and was third in the league in steals.
 
NM State had 11 of its 12 suited players score against Houston Baptist. The last time the Aggies had 11 players in the scoring totals was on Nov. 26, 2014 in a 78-33 win over Florida A&M.
 
Of the Aggies eight returning lettermen, only one didn't play in at least 26 of the teams 34 games (or 76 percent of the games) last season. Tanveer Bhullar saw action in just 10 games after missing most of the season with a foot injury.
 
Of the 14 players on the NM State roster, nine are from countries other than the United States.  Four players are from Toronto, Canada, with two from France, one from Cameroon, one from Colombia, and one from Mexico.
 
MENZIES MARKS: Now in his ninth season at New Mexico State, head coach Marvin Menzies is the Dean of WAC Coaches. Menzies is writing himself into the annals of NM State history. With a record of 178-101, Menzies is third on the all-time win list for NM State Coaches. He's reached the 175 win mark faster than the two men in front of him on the win list: Hall of Famer Lou Henson and Neil McCarthy. Henson (1966-75, 1997-2005) leads the group with 289 wins on the Aggie bench (289-152, 16 years). McCarthy (1985-97) has 229 victories (229-114, 12 years). He passed UNM's Bob King (1962-72) for ninth on the WAC all-games win list at 176 with the win over Houston Baptist. He's ninth on the win list for WAC only games with 90, and is third in WAC only winning percentage at .714 in front of the late Jerry Tarkanian at Fresno State (1995-2002). Even with all the winning, Menzies collected his first Don Haskins WAC Coach of the Year Award last year when the Aggies won the regular season by five games. Menzies was named one of Forbes' top 25 college coaches for the money last November.
 
SIAKAM BACK-TO-BACK WAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Sophomore Paschal Siakam has now claimed the first two Western Athletic Conference Player of the Week Awards for the 2015-16 season. The 6-9 forward from Douala, Cameroon, established a new career-high on Wednesday night against Tennessee Tech with 30 points, becoming the first Aggie to score 30 since Daniel Mullings had 32 against Texas-Pan American (UT Rio Grande Valley) on Jan. 25, 2014. He also chalked up 11 rebounds and set a career-best with four assists. Then against Mississippi Valley State he posted 19 points with a season-best 16 rebounds to notch his 10th career double-double, and third this season. He averaged 24.5 points and 13.5 rebounds for the week and shot 61.8 percent with 3.0 rebounds. As last week's WAC Player of the Week as he averaged 25.5 points, 9.5 rebounds and 3.5 blocks. Against Houston Baptist, Siakam collected a career-high 28 points, 20 in the second half, and grabbed 11 rebounds for his first double-double of the season and his eighth career double-double. He had five dunks against the Huskies as well. Then against New Mexico he tallied 23 points, eight rebounds and four blocked shots. Selected the WAC Preseason Player of the Year by the media, Siakam has the top two scoring games in the league this year and leads the WAC in scoring (25.0 points) and blocked shots (1.75), and is second in the conference in rebounding (11.5 rpg). Nationally, Siakam ranks ninth in scoring, 18th in rebounding and third in double-doubles. He's second nationally in total field goals made this season. The league's Freshman of the Year in 2014-15, Siakam averaged 12.8 points a game last season, ranking eighth in the WAC. He was second in the WAC in rebounding with 7.7 boards a game and led the WAC in field goal percentage (57.2 percent) and blocked shots (61, 1.8 per game). Siakam was a first team All-WAC selection as a freshman and was honored as a first team NABC All-District VII performer last season.
 
ICE, ICE BAKER: Junior Ian Baker has been rock steady running the team and has had consecutive big scoring nights. Baker popped for 19 points vs. Tennessee Tech, matching a career-high with five 3-point field goals. He had another big scoring night against New Mexico with 19 points, just missing his career high of 21 set against the Lobos last season. He added 12 points and a career-high seven assists against Mississippi Valley. The 6-0 guard from Washington, D.C., has a 4.67 assist-turnover ratio so far this season at the point and is the Aggies second leading scorer at 14.5 points a game. Last season he led the WAC in 3-point field goal percentage, hitting 45.7 percent of his treys. He averaged 9.3 points a game with 2.4 rebounds, but was third in the WAC with 1.5 steals per game and ninth in the WAC with 2.7 assists. He is a clutch shooter late, having either won or sending to overtime three games in the final five seconds or less with his scores. He is the elder statesman of the team.
 
HENSON INDUCTED: Aggie Legend Lou Henson was officially inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday as part of a class of eight individuals, including three coaches, who formed the NCB Class of 2015 at the College Basketball Experience in Kansas City, Mo. Henson had a 41-year career as a collegiate head coach, all at the NCAA Division I level, posting a record of 779-412 with a 65.4 winning percentage. He's the all-time winningest coach at both New Mexico State and Illinois, and started his career at Hardin-Simmons. Henson, a 1955 graduate of NM State, coached 16 years in two stints for his alma mater, posting a 289-152 record. He also tallied a 423-224 mark in 21 years at Illinois and amassed a 67-36 record in four seasons at HSU. He is currently 11th all-time in career Division I victories, and was sixth on that list when he fully retired from the floor in January of 2005. Henson is one of only 12 coaches to take two different schools to the Final Four.
 
THE FAVORITE: New Mexico State is the prohibitive favorite to win the Western Athletic Conference by both the league's coaches and the media.  The media went on to name sophomore forward Pascal Siakam as the league's preseason player of the year.
 
The Aggies received seven of the eight first place votes and 49 points from the coaches, the most they could receive since they couldn't vote for their own team or players.  Grand Canyon was second with 39 points and CSU Bakersfield third with 36 and the other first place vote.
 
The media, with no voting restrictions, picked up 13 of the 14 first place votes and was third on the ballot that gave CSU Bakersfield a first place vote for a total of 110 points.
 
The media gave Grand Canyon second with 88 and Missouri-Kansas City third with 87.
 
Siakam and junior guard Ian Baker were the Aggies selected on both the Coaches and Media's Preseason All-WAC first team. Siakam was the media's preseason player of the year, while UMKC's Martez Harrison was the coaches preseason player of the year.
 
WELCOMING NEW FACES: NM State has six new faces on the floor in 2015-16, five of them redshirt freshmen. New to the Aggies is junior transfer Rene Esparza from Juarez, Mexico/El Paso Faith Christian Academy. A guard, Esparza came to NM State from New Mexico Junior College. He joins five redshirt freshmen who grew physically and academically at NM State over the last year. The Aggies welcome forward Harold Givens of Norcross, Ga./Faith Baptist Christian; guard Rashawn Browne of Toronto, Ontario/Crothers Secondary; forward Jose Campo of Riohacha, Colombia/West Oaks Academy; guard Sidy Ndir of Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, France/West Oaks Academy; and forward Eli Chuha of Redlands, Calif./Redlands East HS.
 
LOOKING BACK: New Mexico State broke open a tight game with a 30-4 run and cruised to an 85-46 triumph over Mississippi Valley State in the Aggies second game of the Air Force Classic.
 
Pascal Siakam tallied his third double-double of the season and the 10th of his career with 19 points and a season-high 16 rebounds as he shot 61.5 percent from the floor. Eli Chuha came off the bench with 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Aggies for his first career double-double. Ian Baker and Braxton Huggins each added a dozen points, while Baker set a career-high with seven assists.
 
The Aggies shot 52.3 percent from the floor, while the Delta Devils were held to just 26.1 percent (just 23 percent in the second half). NM State also dominated the glass, outrebounding MVSU 51-36.
 
ABOUT THE COLONIALS: The Colonials have fallen hard to start the season after winning the Northeast Conference Tournament and winning a First Four game against North Florida 81-77 in the 2015 NCAA Tournament before falling to Duke 85-56. RMU enters the game 0-4 on the season after losing to Air Force 64-52 in Colorado Springs on Sunday night. They also lost at Penn 76-75, at Cincinnati 106-44 and to Bucknell 81-76. The Colonials are led by guard Rodney Pryor (6-5, Sr., Evanston, Ill.) who is the only player on the team averaging double-figures in scoring with 21.3 points per game with 6.8 rebounds and 2.2 assists. Guard Isaiah Still (6-6, Fr., Rahway, N.J.) collects 8.8 points, shooting 42.9 percent from the floor and 41.2 from the 3-point arc, while forward Elijah Minnie (6-9, So., Monessen, Pa.) chips in 8.0 points and 6.8 rebounds and 1.3 blocked shots a contest. Guard Kavon Stewart (6-0, Jr., Paterson, N.J) adds 7.5 points with 3.5 assists a contest. RMU is scoring 61.8 points a game, and allowing 81.8 per contest.
 
LOOKING AHEAD: The Aggies take to the road for the first time this season when they visit the Air Force Academy on Saturday. It's the final game of the Air Force Classic multi-team event. The game tips off at the USAFA's Clune Arena at Noon.
 
The Falcons are 3-1 on the season after losing beating Robert Morris 64-52 on Sunday. They play at Colorado on Wednesday night before hosting the Aggies on Saturday. The Falcons are led by guard Trevor Lyons (6-3, So., Newport News, Va.) who averages 17.3 points and 4.8 rebounds with 3.3 assists and 3.3 steals a game. Forward Hayden Graham (6-5, Jr., Austin, Texas) averages nearly a double-double a game with 16.0 points and 9.5 rebounds while shooting 58.7 percent from the floor. Center Zach Moer (6-11, Sr., Flower Mound, Texas) averages 9.0 points with 4.7 boards a game. Air Force is scoring 71.0 points a game, and allowing 65.8 per contest.
 
WILKINS OUT: New Mexico State sophomore forward Johnathon Wilkins will not play pending an appeal due to an administrative error concerning his academic eligibility. The NCAA ruled that Wilkins has not met course requirements to remain academically eligible. Due to no fault of his own or the men's basketball program an administrative error prevented him from taking the proper course load. NM State is appealing the decision and Wilkins cannot play while the appeal process is on-going.