The New Mexico State Aggies compete in Conference USA. The men’s basketball team reached the NCAA Final Four in 1970. The university began in 1888 as Las Cruces College and became the territory’s land-grant agricultural college in 1889; it took its present name in 1960. Games are played at the Pan American Center and Aggie Memorial Stadium.
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Aggies
New Mexico State University’s teams, from the school’s agricultural-college roots.