New Mexico vs Wyoming Prediction 2/12/25 College Basketball Picks Today

The Wyoming Cowboys and the New Mexico Lobos meet Wednesday in college basketball action from the Pit. Here’s a New Mexico vs Wyoming prediction. We will look at this from a betting perspective and determine the best New Mexico vs Wyoming pick.

Wyoming Cowboys Betting Preview

Wyoming has had a couple of pretty good runs so far this year. Overall, however, the Cowboys have struggled in the record column. After a 5-1 start that included wins over Concordia-St. Paul, Tennessee, State, Utah Tech, SE Louisiana, and Tulane among a lone loss to Texas Tech, Wyoming hit a losing streak versus Loyola Marymount, Utah State, South Dakota, and BYU. A 4-1 run came next with a loss to Boise State alongside wins over Bellarmine, Cal State Fullerton, Nevada, and Air Force. Since then it’s been a rough 2-7 run for the Cowboys. The wins in that time were over UNLV and Fresno State. Otherwise, it was losses to New Mexico, Boise State, Colorado State, San Jose State, San Diego State, Utah State, and UNLV. That gives Wyoming an 11-13 overall record through their first 24 games so far this year.

In the UNLV game on Saturday, the Cowboys opened the game with a 30-23 deficit. Wyoming didn’t end up getting any closer on a 38-34 deficit from there and took the loss 68-57. Leading the team in scoring was Obi Agbim with 14 points, two rebounds, and three assists. Cole Henry added 10 points with six assists and three rebounds in 25 minutes. Tops in scoring off the bench was Jordan Nesbitt, who chipped in seven points and six boards in 33 minutes.

New Mexico Lobos Betting Preview

Over on the New Mexico side, they came into the year on a relatively choppy run but they’ve been doing great since mid-December. The Lobos lost three of their first 10 games against St. John’s, Arizona State, and New Mexico State, beating Nicholls, UCLA, Texas A&M-CC, Grambling, Texas Southern, USC, and San Jose State otherwise during that time. New Mexico has just one loss since then versus San Jose State on January 14. Otherwise, it’s been wins over Western New Mexico, VCU, Colorado State, Fresno State, Nevada, Wyoming, San Diego State, Boise State, Fresno State, UNLV, Utah State, Colorado State, and Air Force since then, giving the Lobos a 20-4 overall run through 24 games during this current campaign.

Matched up against Air Force on Saturday, the Lobos entered the locker room holding a 34-24 edge. New Mexico got even better from there on a 54-29 run and took the victory in the end. 88-53. Leading the team in scoring was Donovan Dent with 25 points, six assists, and two rebounds. Nelly Junior Joseph hauled in a whopping 21 rebounds with his 14 points for a double-double, and Tru Washington had 16 points with five rebounds and four steals.

Why the New Mexico Lobos will win

• New Mexico has won 16 of its last 17 games against the Mountain West Conference.
• Wyoming has lost each of its last nine Wednesday night games.
• New Mexico has won the first half in 19 of its last 22 night games at The Pit against non-AP-ranked opponents.

Why the Wyoming Cowboys will win

• The road team has won three of New Mexico’s last four games.
• Wyoming has won the first half in eight of its last 10 games against New Mexico.

New Mexico vs Wyoming Prediction

I’ll lean toward New Mexico. The Lobos are on a great run these days. They had very little trouble versus a struggling Air Force team in their last game, hitting 47.1 percent from the field with a 48-34 rebounding edge and 21 points off 18 Falcons turnovers. New Mexico gave up just 31.5 percent shooting on the other side and had only seven turnovers themselves in the blowout victory. During this current six-game win streak, the Lobos have 75 or more points in each game and 82 or more in five of them.

These teams saw each other last back on January 7 in a 61-53 road win for the Lobos. New Mexico didn’t play all that well in that one, posting just 18 points in the first half. The Lobos did well on the boards (44) and from the line (18-of-22 for 81.8 percent) but neither team shot well (both less than 34 percent). New Mexico could use a much more convincing effort here in the home rematch, and I think they’ll get it.