The Rio Grande Rivalry heats up tonight, when the men’s basketball team takes on New Mexico State in a series dominated by the Lobos as of late.
The men’s basketball team needed only to play defense in the second half to win its season opener comfortably. UNM left the Pit as clear victors, with a 92-40 win Friday night over the University of New Orleans in front of 14,011 fans.
For the men’s basketball team it’s not a road to March Madness so much as it’s a direct flight to the tournament. It’s been two years since the Lobos took that same magical ride to the NCAA championships after the 2009 Lobo team’s school record of 30 wins. The Lobos finished 30-5, including an incredible 14-game MWC win streak.
The men’s basketball team goes in blind for the first regular season game.
The women’s basketball team is young and nervous, but head coach Yvonne Sanchez said the Lobos are eager for a rematch against Red Raider Nation.
The UNM men’s basketball team began both its preseason games with two mistakes, but has still come away with dominating wins. The Lobos beat Western New Mexico on Saturday 99-68 in front of 13,473 fans.
The Division I UNM women’s basketball team dominated the Division II New Mexico Highlands University in every stat during an exhibition game Saturday at The Pit.
No NBA? No problem. UNM basketball is here. The first game of the season is less than two weeks away, and full-time practice began over the weekend.
The UNM women’s basketball team has a conference championship in its sights. Last season, UNM finished with a 13-18 record and won just five games in conference on the way to its seventh place finish in the MWC.
Roman Martinez and Daniel Faris are back in their old stomping ground, but not for long. Martinez and Faris, former UNM men’s basketball players, are back in Albuquerque for offseason training for their professional basketball careers. Neither is in the NBA or the NBA Development League in the United States, but both have found roster spots overseas. “It’s not bad,” Faris said.
Emmanuel Negedu’s UNM basketball career was grounded before it could take off. Negedu, who suffered sudden cardiac arrest on Sept.
Welcome to UNM, Hugh Greenwood. Head coach Steve Alford announced Wednesday that Greenwood signed a national letter of intent to play for the Lobos. The 6-foot-3-inch, 209-pound Australian becomes the Lobos’ second 2011-12 signee.
The Bracketbusters are breaking down college basketball’s classist narrative. Little attention has been devoted to the Connecticut-Kentucky Final Four matchup, so much diverted to the little guys’ coming-of-age.
LAS VEGAS — Luck be the UNM women’s basketball team tonight. Already boasting two wins, the Lobos look to extend their unlikely Mountain West Conference tournament run in today’s semifinals where they’ll face second-seeded TCU at the Thomas & Mack Center.
LAS VEGAS — Sure it was hyperbole when guard Kendall Williams said he couldn’t understate the importance of Thursday’s first-round tournament game against fourth-seeded Colorado State. A bit of an overstatement, the freshman guard compared the Mountain West Conference tournament game to “war.” What couldn’t be embellished, though, was his importance to the UNM men’s basketball team in its 67-61 win over the Rams at the Thomas & Mack Center on Thursday.
LAS VEGAS — Once again, the UNM men’s basketball team will knock on BYU’s door. The fifth-seeded Lobos, behind forward Drew Gordon’s 13th double-double, knocked fourth-seeded Colorado State Rams out of the Mountain West Conference tournament 67-61 in a seesaw affair at the Thomas & Mack Center that saw five second-half ties and lead changes.
LAS VEGAS — Wyoming, pack the bags and go home; TCU, stay another day. The ninth-seeded Horned Frogs defeated eighth-seeded Wyoming 70-61 Tuesday to advance to face top-seeded BYU in the Mountain West Conference tournament quarterfinals.
LAS VEGAS — War is how the UNM men’s basketball team is describing it, but for those tired of the oft-used comparison, it’s more appropriately a game of Risk. On the line: an appearance in the Mountain West Conference tournament quarterfinals, and a likely date with No.
LAS VEGAS — Call them the flavor of the month. Forward Porche Torrance had two key blocks on Wyoming’s Aubrey Vandiver in the final 1:59, and the seventh-seeded Lobo women’s basketball team leaned on stingy, physical defense to shut down third-seeded Wyoming 67-61 Wednesday, setting up an improbable semifinals matchup against second-seeded TCU.
Just when you think the UNM men’s basketball team is left for the dead, it comes howling back. UNM shocked the basketball nation Wednesday with a 82-64 upset over No.
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