Game No. 16 & 17
New Mexico State (6-6, 3-5 WAC) at Tarleton (7-9, 2-6 WAC)
Wisdom Gym | Stephenville, TX
7 p.m.
 
Television
Friday: ESPN+
John Liddle, Play-by-Play
Scott Garner: Analyst
 
Saturday: WAC Digital Network
 
Radio: Tarleton Sports Network, KTRL 90.5 FM
Casey Hogan, Play-by-Play
 
AT A GLANCE
 
Tarleton Men's Basketball returns home for the final WAC series of the regular season as they take on three-time defending WAC champion New Mexico State on Feb. 26-27 in Wisdom Gym. Friday's game will broadcast on ESPN+ while Saturday's game will stream live on the WAC Digital Network. Tarleton enters the weekend 7-9 overall and 2-6 in the WAC while New Mexico State is 6-6 overall and 3-5 in conference.
 
GAME COVERAGE
 
Friday's game will stream on ESPN+ and can be found on ESPN.com/watch. Saturday's game will stream free of charge on the WAC Digital Network. Links for live stats can be found on the men's basketball schedule at TarletonSports.com. A complete radio broadcast of the game can be heard on the Tarleton Sports Network presented by the North Texas Ford Dealers. The Voice of the Texans, Casey Hogan, will have the call on the flagship station of Tarleton Athletics – KTRL 90.5 FM in Stephenville – and worldwide at TarletonSports.com/ListenLive. The pregame show begins 30 minutes before tip-off.
 
NET RANKINGS
 
In the latest NCAA Net Rankings of 2021, Tarleton is seventh in the WAC at 286. Grand Canyon leads the WAC with a 1274 Net Raking. The NET utilizes two factors in ranking teams: the Team Value Index (factors in results, quality of opponent and location) and the team's net efficiency (efficiency metrics scaled for quality of opponent and location).
 
Grand Canyon – 127
UTRGV - 206
New Mexico State – 237
Utah Valley - 244
California Baptist – 253
Seattle U - 271
Tarleton - 286
Dixie State - 317
Chicago State - 346
 
Tarleton opponents: ACU (76), Weber State (106), Texas A&M (137)
 
INSIDE THE SERIES: NEW MEXICO STATE
 
Tarleton and New Mexico State are meeting for the first time in program history. Texan head coach Billy Gillispie is 2-2 all-time against NMSU, with all four games coming in 2002-03 when he was the head coach at UTEP. Gillispie went 1-1 at El Paso and 1-1 in Las Cruces.
 
LAST TIME OUT: DIXIE STATE
 
Tarleton split a road series in St. George, Utah against Dixie State. The Texans won the first game of the series, 77-59 behind Konstantin Dotsenko's game-high 23 points. The Texans fell in the series finale, 64-48.
 
UP NEXT FOR TARLETON: UTRGV
 
Tarleton will travel south to Edinburg, Texas to play its final series of the season at UTRGV. The Texans will play the Vaqueros on March 5-6 at the UTRGV Fieldhouse.