EL PASO - In the end, it came down to fundamentals.
Utah Valley's Trey Woodbury drained two free throws to make matters 60-60 with 1:51 to go, but the Aggies answered with a 7-of-8 free throw performance down the stretch and coupled with some well-timed defensive intensity NM State earned a hard-fought 67-60 triumph Saturday night at Eastwood High School.
FIRST HALF
• Outside of a stretch of 1:19 in the opening frame, NM State was in control throughout. Utah Valley scored the game's first bucket but Johnny McCants capped a 5-0 NM State response by drilling the first of his two three-pointers.