The Aggie men's golf team will be participating in the NCAA East Regional qualifier on May 15th - 17th for the NCAA Championship tournament which will be held at the end of the month. The East Regional has the #2, #6, #12, #13, #14 and #17 teams in the Sagarin Ratings. The top 10 teams from each of the three regionals (East, West, Central) advance to play in the Championship tournament. The last time the Aggies were in the regionals they finished one stroke outside of the Top 10.
The WAC softball tournament gets underway tomorrow and the Aggies will be taking on Fresno State. Fresno State is ranked #9 in the country, 49-9 overall and should receive an at-large bid to the tournament no matter what happens. What remains to be seen is whether Nevada at 40-14 or Hawai'i at 36-17 will receive an at-large bid. Outside of those three teams, everyone else in the league, including the Aggies, must win their way into the NCAA tournament. The Aggies will face Fresno State at 8:30 p.m. MDT tomorrow evening.
It's interesting to note that the Aggie women's teams this season have faced their regular season ending opponent in the first round of the WAC tournament three times. The volleyball team faced Fresno State to end the regular season and then turned around and faced them in the first round of the tournament, the women's basketball team faced Hawai'i to end the regular season and then faced them again just four days later in the WAC tournament and now the softball team having faced Fresno State to end the regular season will face them at least once more in the WAC tournament.
Be sure to check out this week's interview with Aggie baseball coach Rocky Ward. The Aggies are coming off of a series split with league leading Fresno State and host the final two series of the regular season.
If you didn't do so yesterday, check out the first installment of our new monthly Q&A with NMSU Athletics Director McKinley Boston.
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