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Will the UNM football team end its season the same way it started? Well, the Lobos will find out Saturday.
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Will the UNM football team end its season the same way it started? Well, the Lobos will find out Saturday.
The BYU Cougars said goodbye to its seniors and the Mountain West Conference on Saturday by dismantling the UNM football team 40-7.
It’s two lasts for the UNM football team. One: It’s the last road game of the season. Two: Saturday marks the last matchup with BYU while it’s still a Mountain West Conference member. The Cougars will play as a football independent next season.
It wasn’t a well-scripted start for the UNM women’s basketball team; it was just nondescript. Outsized and outmatched, UNM shot 26 percent in the first half, and Texas Tech dismantled the Lobos 80-53 at The Pit in their regular-season opener Saturday. Head coach Don Flanagan said the Lobos weren’t running their offense efficiently. “They were much more physical than we were. They were the tougher team,” he said. “We stopped running our offense, and their inside game really hurt us and our inability to shoot our free throws early. I thought that we could have stayed in the game in the first half.” Missing free throws was the least of the Lobos’ second-half worries. UNM committed five turnovers on its first five possessions, and Texas Tech went on an 18-4 second-half run. If there was any upside to the Lobos getting beat up, Flanagan said, the underclassmen earned a lot of playing time. At one point during the second half, Flanagan had four freshmen in the game with junior Porche Torrance, Brianna Taylor, Erin Boettcher, Jasmine Patterson and Tina Doughty. Flanagan said the freshmen needed game knowledge against a quality opponent. “It gives me an idea of what we’re lacking, though,” he said. “But I am happy some of our young players are getting this experience, because it’s a learning lesson. They are going to play throughout the season, and they will get better as they get older and mature.” Senior Amanda Best said, for the most part, the underclassmen were composed. “But Texas Tech is a pressure team, and they are not an easy team to play for your first game,” she said. “I thought they did some good things out there, and I know that they learned a lot from the game.” It was the veteran Torrance, however, who led the way for the Lobos. She had the first double-double of her career, finishing with 11 points and 13 rebounds. Torrance said the Lobos are putting the loss to the Red Raiders behind them. “It’s a nonconference game, and we can’t dwell on this loss,” she said. “It’s a tough loss in The Pit because we wanted to be undefeated. We just got to get past this game. We’ll put our uniforms on for Monday, and we’ll come out and compete.” The Lobos hit 8-of-30 shots and missed 11 free-throw attempts. The take-home point, Flanagan said, is that the Lobos have to shoot better. “The basket is still 10 feet, and I don’t know what the heck the story is now,” he said.
It’s been two years too long for swingman Curtis Dennis.
The UNM men’s basketball team won’t have a big contributor for the first two games of the regular season.
Patience is for the virtuous. After watching the UNM men’s basketball team play two home exhibitions games at The Pit, it was finally the women’s basketball team’s turn. The Lobos made a grand entrance into the renovated Pit and dismantled Division II opponent Western New Mexico 92-39 in their only exhibition game.
The UNM women’s soccer players are history makers. Among the team’s many accomplishments, the Lobos are making their first-ever trip to the NCAA tournament. UNM will travel to South Bend, Ind., and face fourth-seeded Notre Dame on Friday.
The UNM football team has two home games left and maybe one last chance to avoid a looming possibility: an 0-12 season. The Lobos host Wyoming on Saturday at University Stadium, before heading to Air Force and BYU and returning home to host national powerhouse TCU at the season finale.
It’s early-season college baseball’s version of the Fall Classic. The UNM baseball team concluded its Cherry-Silver World Series on Thursday after a three-game set at Lobo Field. Despite losing the first two games, the Silver squad won Game 3 7-5.
The test run is done. And guess what? Thanks to a near-capacity student section, The Pit is still deafening and obnoxious to play in. Eastern New Mexico University was the first victim Tuesday night, as the UNM men’s basketball team opened the renovated Pit by holding off a smaller, yet pesky, squad 80-58 in the first of two home exhibition games for the Lobos.
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For Drew Gordon, it was an injury that sounded scarier than it turned out to be. The UCLA transfer had surgery Monday to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee. Gordon had an MRI on Oct. 21, and that’s when the tear was discovered.
It’s gone from months down to weeks, and now it’s only days away. The UNM men’s basketball team is ready to defend its back-to-back Mountain West Conference regular-season championships. The Lobos kick off their season with a pair of exhibition games, starting with Eastern New Mexico on Wednesday.
No more than a week after being reinstated, sophomore running back Demond Dennis was dismissed from the UNM football team. Head coach Mike Locksley said Tuesday that Dennis had recurring academic issues.
Jeff Nelson just wants to talk about volleyball — nothing more, nothing less. The fourth-year head volleyball coach is on the cusp of a tremendous accomplishment: his 500th college match as a head coach. But when Sports Information Director Frank Mercogliano reminded Nelson about that piece of trivia, Nelson tried to dodge the topic with a clever quip.
Sure, the UNM women’s soccer team is well-aware of the significance of Saturday’s game, but there’s no sense in stressing about it. The Lobos, currently 11-1-4, tied Wyoming 1-1 tie Sunday in Laramie, Wyo., extending their undefeated streak to nine games. They travel to face TCU Saturday.
Empty was the theme of the night at University Stadium.
There is some good news for the UNM football team this Saturday. Embattled head coach Mike Locksley, who is 1-17 at UNM, hopes to capitalize on the fact that the Lobos are 13-2 since 1996 following their bye week. Former head coach Rocky Long will make his return to University Stadium as San Diego State’s second-year defensive coordinator. Locksley said he expects players who are Long holdovers to wait to exchange pleasantries after the game.