A fatal shooting on the campus of the University of New Mexico led to the postponement of Saturday night’s game between the Lobos and New Mexico State.

The Albuquerque Journal reported the shooting took place around 3 a.m. Saturday morning near a residence hall on campus. Officer Chase Jewell of the Albuquerque Police Department told the newspaper that one person was pronounced dead on the scene from gunshot injuries.

The Journal reported that New Mexico State forward Mike Peake was shot during the incident and transported to a local hospital. New Mexico State hasn’t confirmed that the 21-year-old Peake was involved nor has it divulged his condition.

The person killed was a 19-year-old New Mexico student.

Authorities are investigating to learn who else was at the scene.

The university put out an alert at 4:15 a.m. indicating that there was not a threat to the campus community.

The two schools put out a joint statement on Saturday. The game was scheduled to be played at The Pit on the New Mexico campus in Albuquerque.

“In light of the tragic incident earlier this morning on the University of New Mexico campus, the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University have jointly decided to postpone this evening’s men’s basketball contest between the two schools,” the statement read, adding details regarding a rescheduled game would follow.

“Our thoughts are with all of those impacted by this tragedy.”

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— New Mexico Lobos (@UNMLOBOS) November 19, 2022

State police in New Mexico are leading the investigation.

The 6-foot-7 Peake is averaging 9.0 points and 3.5 rebounds in two games this season. He has a team-leading four blocked shots.

This is at least the third college game either postponed or called off because of campus gun violence this week.

Following the shooting deaths of three University of Virginia football players on Sunday, that school canceled its men’s basketball game on Monday against Northern Iowa. A mourning Cavaliers football team also called off its game Saturday against Coastal Carolina.

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Neither DePaul nor Oklahoma State are satisfied with playing in Sunday’s consolation final of the Baha Mar Hoops championship in Nasaau, Bahamas, but the Cowboys probably have more of a case to be upset that they’re not in the title game.

With three seconds left in a tie game against UCF on Friday night, Oklahoma State went on a 2-on-1 fast break and Avery Anderson III threw an alley-oop for Moussa Cisse. But the pass was too low, Cisse couldn’t handle it and the game went into overtime — when UCF claimed a 60-56 victory.

“I’m incredibly disappointed,” said Oklahoma State coach Mike Boynton. “We put ourselves in great position early on and obviously played very, very poorly from a shooting standpoint. You can’t go 2 for 20 from 3 and win a high-level game.

“I can’t get away from the fact that we had several clear fast breaks that turned into zero points. Literally, at the end of regulation, we have a 2-on-1 I’ve seen connected on a hundred times at least. The game’s over right there. So it’s not just the 3s. It’s the missed layups also.

“This team doesn’t have a killer instinct yet at this point.”

But it does have a consistent big man in Cisse. He stacked up 14 points, 14 rebounds and 6 blocks against UCF — giving him three consecutive double-doubles. He’s averaging 10.3 points, 11.0 rebounds and 4.0 blocks per game.

While Oklahoma State (2-2) surrendered a 15-point second-half lead to fall into the consolation game, DePaul (3-1) had to deal with a 15-point halftime deficit in its 69-61 loss to Santa Clara.

“Our guys did a good job of fighting,” said DePaul coach Tony Stubblefield. “When you get beat 48-32 on the boards, it’s going to be tough to win games like that.

“We’ve got to get better. That’s the reality of it. We’ve got to have more ball movement. We only had 10 assists (against Santa Clara). I thought the ball was sticking. There’s a lot of areas where I feel we have to improve.”

With regards to the lack of ball movement, DePaul has been playing without injured starting point guard Caleb Murphy. In his absence, Oklahoma transfer Umoja Gibson has stepped up to run the offense.

Gibson, who is averaging 17.0 points and 6.5 assists, has experience dealing with Oklahoma State. In four OU-OSU matchups the last two seasons, Gibson averaged 10.5 points as the Cowboys took three of four.

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Most college hoops tournaments take place at neutral sites, but it will feel like a road game for Virginia Tech on Sunday at the Charleston Classic in Charleston, S.C.

Awaiting the Hokies (5-0) is the College of Charleston, as the mid-major Cougars (4-1) get a rare opportunity to take on an Atlantic Coast Conference team on their home floor.

“It’s a big opportunity for us,” Charleston guard Jaylon Scott said. “We’ve done a lot of hard work every day since we’ve been together this summer for the chance to go out and show what we can do against programs like that.”

Though the tournament is played on its home floor, Charleston is not the host. It is an ESPN owned and operated vehicle. This is the Cougars’ fourth appearance in the Classic, with their best finish (third) coming in the inaugural event in 2008.

The Hokies took the title in their only previous appearance in 2018, beating Purdue in the final in coach Buzz Williams’ final season at Tech.

Now it’s his successor, Mike Young, who gets a chance to collect another title after winning the ACC tournament last season. He also will face Charleston, a program that courted him twice during his 17-year tenure at another South Carolina school, Wofford.

Young has built the Hokies into an efficient offensive force. They entered Saturday ranked No. 13 in points per possession (1.20).

In Friday’s 61-59 win over Penn State however, Tech had to grind out a defensive struggle as they made only 3 of 19 shots (15.8 percent) from beyond the arc.

Of the Hokies’ 26 baskets, 20 came from the paint as forwards Grant Basile (17 points) and Justyn Mutts (10 points, 12 rebounds) took advantage of the Nittany Lions’ small frontcourt.

“We have a lot of great shooters as well as a lot of big guys who can score down low, so I think being able to mix it up is what makes this team so special,” Mutts said.

Charleston advanced with a 74-64 victory over Colorado State on Friday night as Scott (12 points) was one of five Cougars in double figures.

Coach Pat Kelsey’s Cougars have been tested. All of their opponents so far, including the Hokies, made the NCAA Tournament last season. Their lone loss came at No. 1 North Carolina, 102-86, after they led by seven at the break.

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It took No. 12 Indiana nearly two weeks to play three games.

Now, the Hoosiers are in a stretch where they’ll play four in a span of a week.

The second of those four games will come on Sunday when they face Miami (Ohio) in Indianapolis.

Indiana (3-0) is coming off a gutsy performance in Friday’s 81-79 win at Xavier in front of a sellout crowd.

“The schedule is what it is,” Indiana coach Mike Woodson said after the win. “We can’t run from it, man. We’ve got a game Sunday. We’ll go back home and break this tape down and prepare for Miami of Ohio and get ready to play Sunday. You just take them a game at a time and a practice at a time. That’s all you can do.”

It might be early, but Indiana is delivering on high expectations to start the year.

Forward Trayce Jackson-Davis has lived up to his billing as the Preseason Big Ten Player of the Year and an All-American candidate, averaging 22.0 points and 6.3 rebounds a game.

He scored 30 points in the win over Xavier.

Senior guard Xavier Johnson got off to a slow start, but really came on against Xavier, scoring 23 points and showing why he’ll be one of the Big Ten’s best guards this year.

“They were tremendous, and I say that because they hadn’t really practiced the last three, four, five days,” Woodson said. “Under the weather, little nicks in there.”

Indiana will finish its busy week with home games against Little Rock on Wednesday and Jackson State on Friday.

Indiana first must focus on a Miami squad that enters 1-3 after a 95-69 home loss to Marshall on Thursday.

The game was a step back for the RedHawks after playing Georgia tough on the road on Monday before losing 77-70.

However, little went right against Marshall.

“I told our guys that I was absolutely embarrassed by the performance (Thursday),” coach Travis Steele said after the Marshall game. “Not embarrassed by the result of losing the game, but embarrassed by the response. All of a sudden a couple of 3s went in, and all of a sudden our team splintered apart.”

Miami was picked to finish 11th in the preseason Mid-American Conference poll.

The RedHawks have been led by Mekhi Lairy, who is averaging 16.5 points per game, Anderson Mirambeaux (15.8), Morgan Safford (12.0) and Julian Lewis (12.0).

“Defense can keep you in games when you have off-shooting nights,” Steele said. “It keeps you in games. Defense, rebounding and taking care of the ball. Those three things always win. Always have and always will. We’ve got to be more concerned with that than with shooting.”

The RedHawks committed 18 turnovers and shot 18.8 percent (6 of 32) from 3-point range against the Thundering Herd. Marshall had 12 steals and blocked seven shots.

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Jack Clark scored 21 points and NC State remained unbeaten with a solid defensive effort in Saturday’s 74-63 win over visiting Elon in Raleigh, N.C.

Terquavion Smith added 16 points and Casey Morsell posted 15 points for the Wolfpack (4-0).

Elon shot 38.3 percent from the field and missed 17 of its 24 shots from 3-point distance, hurting its chances to pull an upset.

Torrence Watson’s 20 points led the Phoenix (1-4), who have lost four straight since a season-opening win against Division II Erskine. Max Mackinnon added 11 points and Sean Halloran had nine points and six assists. Watson sank 4 of 7 shots from 3-point range and grabbed a team-high eight rebounds.

NC State ended its four-game homestand. Next up is defending national champion Kansas in the Battle for Atlantis on Wednesday.

Four Wolfpack starters connected on at least one 3-point shot, led by Smith with four. Even with that production they were held far below their average of 93 points per game through the first three contests.

Clark was 9 of 18 from the field with three 3-pointers to go with nine rebounds. NC State attempted just six free throws and had only 14 assists on its 29 field goals.

Dusan Mahorcic’s nine points and 13 rebounds gave NC State a boost. Wolfpack reserves combined for only six points on 1-of-12 shooting.

Elon was within 58-53 before Morsell’s 3-pointer with about seven minutes to play. Watson’s 3 and Zac Ervin’s layup kept the Phoenix in range at 63-58.

The Wolfpack built the lead back to double digits at 69-59 on Morsell’s jumper with 2:48 to play.

NC State led 37-27 at halftime. Morsell scored the team’s last five points of the half, including a 3-pointer right before the buzzer.

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