Aniyah Augmon Earns MW Player of the Week
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Aniyah Augmon’s impact on Saturday’s game was evident, and the Mountain West took notice with the Lobo junior guard named Mountain West Player of the Week on Monday.
It marked the second weekly conference honor in four weeks for Augmon, and the third player of the week award for a New Mexico player in the last four weeks.
Augmon’s latest accolade comes after she led the Lobos with a game-high 22 points (tying her career high) on a career-high eight made field goals and a game- and career-high 16 rebounds for her second double-double of the season in the win against Colorado State.
Nine of her points occurred in the second quarter on 4-4 shooting including 1-1 from three-point range. Augmon scored consecutive baskets that kept the lead at five in the second quarter and was part of a larger 9-2 run that turned a 17-15 deficit into a 24-19 lead. She later had a personal 5-0 run that put UNM up 34-26 as part of a 7-0 run that stretched a one-point lead to an eight-point lead. The junior had 12 points and eight rebounds by the half.
Augmon continued to be effective in the third quarter her 10th rebound led to a three-pointer to start the scoring and her three-pointer on the following possession stretched the lead to double digits at 12 (40-28). Entering the game as the MW leader in steals, Augmon also added a steal that turned into a fast-break layup in the fourth quarter to push the lead to eight and assisted on the three-pointer 40 seconds later that got the lead back up to double digits at 55-44. Augmon capped the night by scoring UNM’s final points on an and-one, making the free throw to give UNM its largest margin of 16.
Against MW opponents, Augmon is averaging 15.6 ppg and has scored in double figures in all 11 games that she’s played in. She is also averaging 6.3 rebounds per game, 3.9 assists per game and 2.5 steals per game with a steal in all but two games and multiple steals in seven games. She’s had three games with four steals and a game with five steals. She is fifth in assists per game, sixth in scoring, seventh in field goal percentage and free throw percentage, 10th in rebounding, and leads the conference with 27 steals and steals per game.
Following Monday’s announcement, the Lobos have now won four player of the week awards, the most since the 2021-22 season when UNM won four.