Not a good Tuesday night for the WAC

Let's lead off with the New Mexico State - UTEP matchup.

Sam Wasson/BleedCrimson.net begins the coverage with his game report:

Poor Shooting Dooms Aggies; Lose 79-58 At Home To UTEP
Sam Wasson
12/01/2009

The Aggie men's basketball team was dealt their worst home loss in the 197-game series as UTEP handed the Aggies a 21-point loss, 79-58 on Tuesday night. The Miners jumped out to a 7-0 lead as the Aggies did not hit their first field goal until the 14:59 mark of the first half cutting the Miner lead to 11-4. The Aggies would cut the Miner lead to just two points at 15-13 with 9:57 left in the half and then again at 17-15 with 8:45 left in the half but would get no closer.

The Aggies shot a season low 28 percent from the floor in the first half as they hit just 7 of 25 shots from the floor and did not record a three point basket, missing all eight attempts. Combined with a porous defense that allowed UTEP to shoot 45.9 percent from the floor, the Aggies' trailed by 15 points at halftime, 39-24...

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Jason Groves/Las Cruces Sun-News provides his game report:

Rocked and socked: Aggies fall by 21 to UTEP
Jason Groves
Las Cruces Sun-News
12/02/2009

LAS CRUCES — UTEP was a step quicker and a whole lot better than New Mexico State on Tuesday at the Pan American Center.

The Miners kept their record unblemished with a 79-58 victory over the Aggies. UTEP scored the first nine points of the game and led by as many as 27 in the second half to send the Aggies into another rivalry game at New Mexico on Saturday with a 2-4 start.

"We are not playing with the type of passion that we need and it falls on me," Aggies coach Marvin Menzies said. "I don't blame the kids at all. Unfortunately after playing progressively better after our first game, we took a step back tonight..."

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Jason Groves also has a blog entry on the contest.

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'Dogs lack bite in Selland loss to Pacific
'We're in panic mode right now,' coach says.
Marek Warszawski
The Fresno Bee
December 1, 2009

The Fresno State men's basketball team made its much-anticipated return to Grant's Tomb on Tuesday night.

Too bad the Bulldogs played most of the game like corpses.

Lackadaisical defensively and out of sync on offense, Fresno State saw its losing streak grow to four games in a 70-58 loss to University of the Pacific before an announced 7,506 at Selland Arena...

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Matt James/Fresno Bee offers a history lesson here.

Jagdip Dhillon of the Stockton Record provides his game writeup -- Pacific was missing two players due to suspension, one a starting backcourter.

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As for WAC games tonight (Wednesday):

* Louisiana Tech at ULM
* Hawai‘i at UC Irvine
* Brigham Young at Utah State