For some programs, opportunity only knocks every so often.
And for the New Mexico State basketball team – a team dominating the Western Athletic Conference over the past decade and consistently getting to the NCAA Tournament only to be slapped with double digit seeds and slim chances of advancing – their door is knocking this week in South Carolina.
The Aggies (2-0) tip off the Myrtle Beach Invitational in Conway, South Carolina, against Davidson at 10 a.m. Thursday – a hoops junkie brunch game, the only Division I game in the country at that time, airing on ESPNU.