For the first 36 minutes of Saturday’s contest, the UNM women’s basketball team went toe-to-toe with league-leading TCU. But the Lobos were outscored 13-3 down the final 7:13 of the game to lose 84-71 at The Pit. “We played a good offensive game,” freshman forward Morgan Toben said.
Dairese Gary has saved his best for last. The UNM men’s basketball team senior guard scored 58 points in his last two games, a career-high 32 points coming in an 80-70 win at TCU that halted the Lobos’ four-game losing streak.
The UNM women’s basketball team continues to knock on that Mountain West Conference door for that first league win. The problem is no one is answering.
For the UNM women’s basketball team, this season has been uneasy and maybe a little nauseating. The Lobos have lost seven of their past eight games and are 0-3 in the Mountain West Conference.
After an exciting — and at times sloppy — overtime win against New Mexico State, the UNM men’s basketball team is back in Albuquerque and looking for its seventh straight victory against its Las Cruces rivals.
LAS CRUCES – It wasn’t pretty, but is it ever when the Lobo men’s basketball team plays at NMSU? All things considered, Saturday night’s contest between the Lobos and Aggies was sloppy, and UNM flirted with disaster but pulled out a 84-78 overtime victory at the Pan American Center.
Blame the UNM men’s basketball team’s slow start on the holiday season hangover. Trailing by one point with 11 minutes left to play in the first half, UNM went on a 20-5 run that propelled the Lobos’ blowout win against San Diego 75-46 on Sunday afternoon.
If the UNM women’s basketball players didn’t know who Toni Young is, they sure do now. And the Lobos won’t forget her for a long time. Young, a 6-foot-2-inch forward, dominated the Lobos with 25 points and 10 boards helping the Cowgirls escape with a 74-65 double overtime victory at The Pit on Saturday. UNM’s head coach Don Flanagan said Young created nightmarish problems for the Lobos in the post.
The UNM men’s basketball team is looking to stuff the first turkey on its schedule. The Lobos will try to rebound after getting romped by 25 points against California on Saturday. Now 2-1, the Lobos host Northwood, a Division II team from Michigan, today at 7 p.m. Head coach Steve Alford joked that his team must carve through its opponent in order to avoid holiday stress. “There might be no spread at all, if things don’t go well Wednesday,” Alford said.
The Miami Heat aren’t necessarily 8-6 because of the play of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t squarely blame the supposed super group for the uninspiring start. The newly formed trio produces well enough on the court.
The UNM women’s basketball team needed every second on the clock — and then some — to claw to its second victory of the season. In a double-overtime duel, the Lobos outlasted California 63-54 on Saturday at The Pit in a game where both teams combined for 41 turnovers. “We had an opportunity to win it in regulation,” head coach Don Flanagan said.
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.
The UNM men’s basketball team might be young, but it’s not defenseless. Propelled by their stingy defense, the Lobos beat Detroit Mercy 63-54, and held the Titans to 30 percent shooting from the field before a raucous crowd of 15,145 on Saturday at The Pit.
It’s a brand new cast for a brand new year. After a 30-win season, back-to-back Mountain West Conference regular-season championships and a trip to the NCAA tournament, the UNM men’s basketball team is prepared to defend its title.
It’s been two years too long for swingman Curtis Dennis. The junior from the Bronx, N.Y., has been itching to get on Bob King Court and display his talents for the UNM men’s basketball team. Dennis probably won’t be a starter, but he said knows his responsibility: It’s to be a spark plug off the Lobos’ bench.
The key to the UNM women’s basketball team’s success lies in its freshmen. With juniors Sara Halasz and Nikki Nelson out with season-ending knee injuries and senior Jessica Kielpinski playing with a bum foot, it will be up to the underclassmen to fill in. “I’ve said it quite a bit,” head coach Don Flanagan said.
The UNM men’s basketball team won’t have a big contributor for the first two games of the regular season. Guard Phillip McDonald, who started every game last season, suffered a partially torn ligament in his elbow during the Lobos’ 107-62 exhibition win over Manchester College. Head coach Steve Alford said McDonald will be evaluated after the Lobos’ first two games. “Obviously, Phillip’s injury— there is never a good time,” Alford said.
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.
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.
Second-year apathy doesn’t exist as far as Lauren Taylor is concerned. “Sophomore slump?” Taylor said about the jinx that often impedes second-year players’ progression.
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