Over the nearly 20-day winter break, the UNM women’s basketball team (9-5) remained steady. The Lobos won when they were supposed to and lost when the odds were against them. They notched a win over in-state rival New Mexico State on Dec.
So, I was wrong about Brett Favre. Grossly, painfully wrong. I thought the aging gunslinger would drag an otherwise innocent Vikings team into the bowels of disappointment — exactly where he left the New York Jets last season.
The UNM men’s basketball team was handed its third loss — its second in a row, and its first in 20 games inside the friendly confines of The Pit.
In a sense, what Kendall Wallace did to Steve Alford’s Lobos was poetic justice. Alford, renowned in his heyday for his artistic 3-point stroke, forced teams to extend their man-to-man defenses and do away with zones. This time it was Wallace, salting the Lobos’ wounds by peppering in a barrage of 3-pointers.
New Mexico 64- San Diego State 74 UNM is 14-2 in all and 0-1 in Mountain West Conference play
#19 New Mexico 68—Dayton 66 News for Lobo men’s basketball coach Steve Alford − well, it’s not really news. “Steve’s lucky,” said Dayton head coach Brian Gregory. For what?
#19 New Mexico 90-#20 Texas Tech 75 Pat Knight said his No. 20 Texas Tech Red Raiders played satisfied and overconfident in the 90-75 thumping handed to them by the UNM men’s basketball team at The Pit on Tuesday. “What it is — you have a hungry team here at New Mexico,” Knight said.
A UNM student was killed Dec. 18 in a head-on collision near Cuba, N.M., by a suspected drunk driver, according to a statement released by Lt. Eric Garcia, NMSP spokesman.
New Mexico 81 — New Mexico State 64
#19 New Mexico 66 vs Creighton 61
Nope, these Pokes don’t fear December —mainly because they’re rarely playing come this time of year. This time, Wyoming was here for the New Mexico Bowl, but the team straglled 11 points behind favored Fresno State (8-4 overall) in the fourth quarter. The Cowboys, however, fought back, closing a 28-17 fourth-quarter deficit, in which they needed a touchdown, two point conversion and late-game field goal to stage the improbable. These Pokes got a touchdown, the two-point conversion and field goal — plus an additional touchdown in the second overtime of Saturday’s game, giving them a 35-28 at University Stadium. The Pokes’ quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels, who was named offensive MVP at the conclusion of the game, completed a 13-yard touchdown pass, his third of the game, to wide receiver David Leonard, helping the Cowboys win their first bowl in five years.
Some people in the U.S. don’t know that New Mexico is a member of the union, let alone that the state hosts a Bowl game. But over the last two years, the rest of the country ought to have picked up on the New Mexico Bowl. Wyoming — led by first-year head coach Dave Christensen and freshman quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels — defeated Fresno State, 35-28, in a double-overtime thriller in the fourth installment of the Land of Enchantment’s very own ESPN football game. I didn’t think that the game would be a contest between the Cowboys and the Bulldogs, or that it would go into two overtimes.
#19 New Mexico 96 vs Northern Arizona 57
UNM is teaming up with two other research institutions to determine why an estimated 40 percent of women leave academic medicine before they’ve spent seven years in the field. The study will evaluate the effectiveness of three national programs that aim to give women resources to succeed as teachers in the medical field.
The Student Fee Review Board delayed voting on a policy amendment that would allow it to reduce any department’s student fee funding up to 50 percent.
On Friday, panelists from the Department of Health’s Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee approved four new conditions for DOH Secretary Alfredo Vigil to consider adding to the program. Jose Pacheco, a medical cannabis card holder, attended the meeting to petition for cluster-type headaches and migraines to be eligible for treatment with medical cannabis. “Seven moths ago I underwent brain surgery,” Pacheco said at the meeting.
Like everyone else, President Schmidly doesn’t know what kind of budget cuts the State Legislature will mandate at its January session. However, he does know how to deal with the cuts when they arrive. At the Board of Regents’ Finance and Facilities committee meeting Thursday, Schmidly outlined his priorities in budget reductions and reallocations.
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.
Trying to get UNM’s star right-side hitter Taylor Hadfield to talk about her successes is like pulling teeth. The 6’1” junior from Corte Madera, Calif., isn’t one to boast, though she has every right to. Hadfield led the UNM volleyball team in kills for most of the season, finishing the year with 2.63 kills per set and a .252 hitting percentage.
The UNM men’s basketball team is undefeated against the Aggies this season — and not just the Lobos’ interstate rival. The Lobos beat the NMSU Aggies twice, and on Saturday UNM handed No.
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