After New Mexico State returned from the Los Angeles area, Shahar Lazar and Kent Olewiler announced on social media that they were leaving the team.
The school announced late Saturday that it would hold a closed meeting Tuesday night to “discuss limited personnel matters concerning individual employees.” It did not name the employees who were to be discussed.AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File
In announcing the indefinite suspension of the basketball program on Friday night, the university put coach Greg Heiar and his staff on administrative leave pending an investigation into the possible violations of school policy. The university said those violations were unrelated to the Nov. 19 fatal shooting in Albuquerque of Brandon Travis, a 19-year-old student from rival school, University of New Mexico. Aggies forward Mike Peake was suspended early in December while an outside investigator looked into his involvement in the incident that ended with the shooting. In the moments before the shooting, Peake suffered a leg injury and was later taken to the hospital by three of his teammates.
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