Jans fills last scholarship Shawn Jones

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NM state is a really good basketball program. Since 1990, they've been to the tourney 16 times. That's 5 more than us all time

ETA... Marvin Menzies was at NMSU before jans, and he made the tourney 4 (assuming he woulda made it in 2020) of his last 5 years just like jans. Menzies flopped at unlv.

Not saying jans won't succeed, but I am a little nervous about how well coaches do at NMSU

Menzies did do very well at NMSU. Jans did better.

Menzies last 5 years at NMSU he did make it to the NCAA Tourney 4 out of 5 years. He only won the conference twice out of those 5. He was money in the conference tourney though winning 4 out of the 5
Tourneys. In Jans 4 full seasons he won the regular season & conference tournament every year.

Menzies last 5 seasons 122-53 (62-14) .685
Jans last 4 full seasons 110-32 (57-7) .775

So yes Menzies was good, very good. Jans was clearly better. We do have to see what he does here but he was clearly better than Menzies. The only coach who had a run as good as Jans at NMSU was Neil McCarthy & he ended up putting the school on probation because of an academic fraud case. Half the team wouldn’t have been eligible without it.

ETA: Since 1990 NMSU has won 10 Regular Season Conference Titles. Jans has 4 in 4 full seasons. The rest of those coaches have 6 in over 25 years. McCarthy 3, Henson 1, & Menzies 2. So yes NMSU has been money in conference tournaments but Jans was elite in the regular season & then handled business in the conference tourneys too.