UNM Athletics
UNM athletes improved in the classroom for the ninth straight semester with a cumulative 3.04 GPA.
For the men, track, skiing, soccer, golf and tennis all had team averages above 3.0 with tennis having the highest at 3.52.
The women's teams scored highly in the classroom as well, with basketball, golf, skiing, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and volleyball each scoring above the 3.0 mark. Skiing led the women with an average GPA of 3.6. The 3.04 total athletics GPA is the highest since the University began tracking athletes' classroom progress in 1988.
Basketball
The Lobos were one of only two schools nationwide to rank in the top 12 in attendance in both men's and women's basketball last year.
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The women ranked fourth, with an average attendance of 11,896. Only national powerhouses Connecticut, Tennessee and Texas Tech ranked higher than the Lobos.
Despite a season of transition and struggle, the men still ranked 12th in the nation in attendance. An average of 15,186 fans came to see the new look Lobos.
The success of the women in both attendance and performance also persuaded the NCAA to announce that UNM will host first and second round games at The Pit for the second straight time next year.
The Pit was sold out for three 2003 tournament games and averaged an impressive 15,240 fans for four sessions. Hometown crowds aided UNM in average totals, but the Midwest regional between Duke and Texas Tech still drew 12,413 fans, despite the Lobos already being out of the tournament.
