LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Following a Tuesday night victory over New Mexico Highlands, the Aggies are back in action for a meeting with rival New Mexico on Sunday, Nov. 16. This serves as the lone matchup between the programs in the 2025-26 season – the second such instance in the past three seasons.
 
Last season, the storied rivals met twice, once in Albuquerque and two days later in Las Cruces, with NM State taking both contests – a feat last accomplished in the 2015-16 season. First tip is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. MT. The game will be streaming on ESPN+, with live statistics available at nmstatesports.com/stats.
 
The Aggies hold a 29-58 record all-time against the Lobos, though they sport a 3-2 record under the direction of fourth-year head coach Jody Adams.
 
OPENING TIP
 
Who: NM State (1-1, 0-0 CUSA) vs. New Mexico (3-1, 0-0 MWC)
Where: Pan American Center (12,200) | Las Cruces, N.M.
When: Sunday, Nov. 16 | 2 p.m. MT
Live Stream: ESPN+
Live Stats: nmstatesports.com/stats
 
LAST TIME OUT

• NM State began its home slate for the 2025-26 season, playing host to New Mexico Highlands on Tuesday, Nov. 11.
• Lucía Yenes (23 points), Imani Warren (15) and Anna Csenyi (10) posted double-figures in the 78-61 win, with nine Aggies recording points in total.
• Warren notched the first double-double of the season for the Crimson & White, finishing with 15 points and 11 rebounds, along with six assists.
• With the win, Head Coach Jody Adams recorded her 50^th career victory at NM State. Her first win at the helm came on Nov. 9, 2022, an 80-39 win over NM Highlands.
• The Aggies held NMHU to 32% shooting from the field and 17% from 3-point range on the night, forcing 22 turnovers.
• First-year Aggie Lucia Lara pulled down ten rebounds on the night, adding five points (both career highs).
• Senior captain Loes Rozing stuffed the stat sheet, recording nine points, seven rebounds, two assists and two steals in 28 minutes.
• Keira Hudson (six points) and Iyana Beh (six points) recorded career-best point totals at the Division I level, while Emma Christiano made her first basket as a member of the Crimson & White.

 
LUCIA LA REINA

• Senior forward Lucía Yenes showed out in the Aggies' season-opening contest against No. 18 USC (Nov. 11), tallying her first collegiate start en route to pouring in a career-high 27 points.
• This became the most by an Aggie against power conference competition since NM State Hall of Famer and three-time All-American Anita Maxwell tallied 27 against No. 20 Ole Miss in 1996.
• Through the early season, she holds the highest single-game scoring output in Conference USA, also pacing the conference in free throw percentage (100%, 9-for-9). She also ranks third in field goals made (19) and fourth in field goal percentage (.559) and total points (50) in the league.
• In Tuesday's contest against New Mexico Highlands, the senior from Madrid notched a game-high 23 points, adding five rebounds and a trio of steals.
• Tallying back-to-back 20-plus point scoring performances to open the season, Yenes became the first Aggie to do so since Aaliyah Prince in the 2019-20 campaign.

 
IMANI'S IMPACT

• Junior guard Imani Warren continued her hot start to the season, setting a new career high with 15 points – notching a double-double in the process, pulling down 11 rebounds (career high) against NMHU.
• Alongside the double-double, Warren also recorded a new career high in assists with six, the most by an Aggie in a game this season.
• Through two games, the Milwaukee, Wis., native stands among the best in CUSA, ranking second in field goal percentage (.600), while also appearing in the top 20 for assists per game (7^th), points per game (13^th), rebounds per game (13^th), total assists (13^th) and field goals made (17^th).

 
2024-25 YEAR IN REVIEW

• In 2024-25, the Aggies amassed an 18-16 record, including a 10-8 mark in Conference USA action (their first winning record in conference play since joining CUSA). This secured a spot in the 2025 Conference USA Championships in Huntsville, Ala., where NM State played host to LA Tech as the No. 4 seed.
• Eighteen victories tied the most wins in the regular season, and ten wins in conference play tied the high-water mark for the Aggies under Jody Adams, with the 2022-23 team posting a similar 18-17 record and a 10-8 mark in conference play (then members of the Western Athletic Conference).
• Graduate guard Molly Kaiser put the nation on notice for her scoring prowess, finishing 17th in the nation in points per game (20.5, one of just 23 players to tally 20+ points per contest in 2024-25) and 17^th in total points (677) en route to earning Conference USA Player of the Year honors.
• Kaiser became the first Aggie to win conference player of the year honors since Brooke Salas recorded back-to-back honors in 2017-18 and 2018-19 in the Western Athletic Conference.
• Alongside a player of the year selection for Kaiser, the Watauga, Texas, native also collected First Team All-CUSA honors, posting averages of 21.2 points, 2.2 assists and 1.5 steals per game, while shooting 46.5% from the field (seventh best in CUSA) and 83.5% from the charity stripe in conference play.
• Then-senior guard Loes Rozing played in all 34 contests for NM State, tallying 31 starts with 21 minutes per contest. In a pair of wins over rival New Mexico, the Heiloo, Netherlands, native notched averaged 12.5 points (17 in the first meeting in Albuquerque), 4.5 rebounds and 1.0 steals.
• Then-junior forward Lucia Yenes posted her best season in the Crimson & White, shooting 46.1% from the field (second-highest on the team), with per-40-minute averages of 15.7 points, 7.7 rebounds and 2.9 steals.

 
FRESH FACES

• NM State returns just 16.6% of their offensive production (365/2,204 total points in 2024-25) and 14.6% of their 3-pointers made (28/192).
• Head Coach Jody Adams and her staff welcomed eight new student-athletes, with five collegiate transfers, and a trio of freshmen.
• At the forward positions are newcomers Morane Dossou (Independence CC/Dodge City CC), Iyana Beh (Snow College), Lucia Lara (Mississippi Valley State/Butler CC) and Senoj Jones (Tyler Legacy HS).
• Lara becomes not only the second Lucia on the NM State roster, (senior forward Lucia Yenes), but is also the third Spaniard on the squad, joining junior forward Marta Guilera and Yenes.
• New to the roster at the guard position are Keira Hudson (Barker College), DeAvion Wilson (C.E. King HS), Nikki Stanic (St. Petersburg CC) and Emma Christiano (New Mexico Highlands).
• Joining the Aggies serves as a homecoming for Christiano, a Las Cruces native who attended Las Cruces High School, where she earned district player of the year honors in 2022.

 
FRESH FACES (COACHING STAFF EDITION)

• As Head Coach Jody Adams marks her fourth season on the bench for the Crimson & White, the Cleveland, Tenn., native works alongside some new faces – with Associate Head Coach James Frey in his third season in his role.
• Joining the Aggies ahead of the 2024-25 season, Assistant Coach Preston Planells quickly impressed Adams, earning a promotion to assistant coach during the season. Planells recently began his first full season in the position at NM State.
• Assistant Coach Kayla Tucker began her first season with the Aggies, following a trio of seasons in the same role at Southern Nazarene, a DII member of the Great American Conference.
• During her time with the Crimson Storm, Tucker helped the team achieve three consecutive regular-season championships, a GAC Tournament title, and three straight NCAA Tournament appearances.
• Rounding out the assistant coaches is Myron Brown, who comes to the Aggies following a pair of seasons as the director of player development at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., near his hometown of Detroit.
• Prior to his time at Oakland, Brown also served as an assistant coach at North Florida, while also previously spending five seasons as the head coach at Thomas University (NAIA).

AUSSIE AUSSIE (AUSSIE!)

• The Aggies welcome a pair of student-athletes from Australia to the roster for the 2025-26 season in Keira Hudson and Nikki Stanic. The freshman Hudson joins from the mainland and Barker College, while the junior Stanic arrives from St. Petersburg Community College in Florida.
• Hudson brings experience from the semi-pro NBL1, playing three seasons with the Hornsby Ku-ring-Gai Spiders, while also helping Barker College to a pair of District ISA championships, one state championship and a bronze-medal finish at the national championships.
• Last season with the Titans, Stanic recorded 29 games played (25 starts), while averaging 8.8 points per game on 42.9% shooting from the field (39.5% from 3-point range). 

SCOUTING THE LOBOS

• The Lobos are led by Head Coach Michael Bradbury, now in his 10^th season in charge in Albuquerque, sporting a 183-104 record as the New Mexico head coach.
• Last season, the Lobos finished with an 18-14 record, falling to San Diego State
• in the quarterfinals of the MWC Championship. 
• The Aggies will have an eye on junior guard Destinee Hooks, averaging 17.5 points per game through their first four contests, including a season-high 22 points against Colorado. She also paces the squad in rebounds, collecting five per contest.
• On the year New Mexico holds a 3-1 record, most recently notching a 99-65 home victory over New Orleans.

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