New Mexico’s three-game winning streak was snapped in an 86-65 loss at Boise State on Saturday. The Lobos were outscored 52-27 in the second half after going into halftime with a four-point lead.
The 2015 MLS SuperDraft began Thursday and one Lobo has already been selected: Oniel Fisher. The former UNM midfielder/defender was selected by Seattle Sounders FC during the second round of the SuperDraft. Fisher was the 40th overall selection and the third player selected by the Sounders.
Injuries and setbacks aside, the New Mexico men’s basketball team have turned a lot of heads early in Mountain West play having only one loss through five contests.
Following the 70-47 rout over Air Force, New Mexico rolls into Boise State riding a three-game conference winning streak. The streak is the longest since February of the 2009-10 season. New Mexico’s victory in Colorado Springs was the first road win of the year for the Lobos. Head coach Yvonne Sanchez said the streak has given the team an abundance of confidence.
Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson and New Mexico Vice President for Athletics Paul Krebs were selected to the newly-formed Division I Council, the NCAA Board of Directors announced Wednesday. Thompson and Krebs will join other commissioners, athletic directors, faculty representatives, senior woman administrators and student-athletes from around the country when the first meeting of the Division I council meets on Friday, along with the 2015 NCAA Convention in Washington, D.C. It will be the first time that student-athletes will be represented on council-level groups. All Division I conferences will be represented by the council, which is made up of 40 individuals.
The University of New Mexico men’s basketball team kept its undefeated home record in Mountain West play after Wednesday’s win against the Air Force Falcons. The Lobos (12-5, 4-1 Mountain West) defeated the Falcons 60-48 behind an upcoming leader on the Lobo squad. Freshman Sam Logwood scored a career and game-high 17 points on an efficient 6-9 shooting to go along with three rebounds and three assists. “I just went out there and just did what coach told me to do,” Logwood said. “Yesterday he told me to just shoot the ball, don’t be hesitant and I’m trying to listen to him... I just went out there and played my game.”
New Mexico head coach Craig Neal said San Diego State and Utah State may be the two toughest environments in the conference. After that challenging back-to-back road slate, the Lobos will be back in their home venue tonight to face the Air Force Falcons.
The New Mexico men’s basketball team finished off a two-game Mountain West road trip with a win behind a pair of seniors who carried the young Lobo squad. Senior guard Hugh Greenwood scored a team-high 22 points and hit a career high six 3-pointers to lead the Lobos in a win at Utah State 66-60 on Saturday. That win followed a 56-42 loss at San Diego State last Tuesday.
The New Mexico men’s and women’s track and field teams earned 16 top-10 finishes in the opening meet of the season at the Air Force Collegiate Open on Friday. Aasha Marler earned the only first-place finish for the women with a win in the long jump. She recorded a jump of 19 feet, 8 1/4 inches. The senior also took sixth in the 60 meter dash.
The New Mexico ski team hopes to continue a long tradition of success this season. The Lobos have placed within the top-10 out of 140 collegiate ski team throughout the United States continuously for the last 30 years, Fredrik Landstedt, the head coach for the men's and women's UNM alpine and nordic team said. Landstedt has been the head coach for the UNM ski team for eight years. He said he felt confident in the team’s ability to make it to NCAAs this year.
A late steal by junior guard Bryce Owens in the final seconds gave New Mexico its fifth straight home victory over Utah State on Saturday, 60-59. A year ago, the story could have been different.
After a sluggish start, New Mexico’s second half defense propelled the Lobos to a 62-53 victory over San Diego State for their first conference win of the season Wednesday night at WisePies Arena.
Saying Tuesday’s game between New Mexico and San Diego State was a defensive affair would be an understatement. Suffocating defense by the Aztecs downed a streaking Lobo team in the third game of conference play, 56-42. UNM (10-5, 2-1 Mountain West) dropped its first conference game of the season to SDSU 56-42. The Lobos couldn’t find an answer to a smothering Aztecs defense.
The 24th ranked Colorado State Rams visited The Pit on Saturday night with an unblemished 14-0 record and were arguably the hottest team in the Mountain West.
New Mexico guard Chirrisse Bryce Owens has never bowed to the standards of anyone else, and that mentality provided the junior starter with a unique leadership role on and off the court. At a young age, Owens said, she decided she was going to have her own style. Owens was named after her mother, but the only child out of DeSoto, Texas, said she was not a fan of that name and began going by Bryce. Chirrisse and Howard Owens acknowledged their daughter’s desire, so they began to call her Bryce. After earning McDonald’s High School All-American recognition, Owens moved into a major role on the UNM women’s basketball program and was named a starter in her freshman campaign for the Lobos.
New Mexico and San Diego State have both been atop the Mountain West Conference in recent memory. Because of this, one question starting to get thrown around is: Are the Lobos and the Aztecs rivals? Redshirt sophomore guard Devon Williams refused to answer the question after Saturday’s game, instead asking for the next question with a big smile on his face. The Lobos will face the Aztecs today at Viejas Arena in San Diego, California. UNM (10-4, 2-0 Mountain West) won its second game of conference play on Saturday night, knocking off undefeated Colorado State in WisePies Arena, aka The Pit. This was the second of a two-game home stand to open conference play.
After Wednesday’s Mountain West opener, New Mexico guard Hugh Greenwood mentioned a “plus-one, minus-one” ratio system to help gauge conference play. Home games are neutral, he said. Home losses get minus one; road wins get plus one. A solid effort ensured the Lobos kept that ratio neutral after one game.
After a surprising loss to Grand Canyon University on Dec. 23, the beaten and battered Lobos are looking to bounce back in their first conference game of the season against the Fresno State Bulldogs on New Years Eve.
New Mexico’s stout defense propelled it to a 56-37 victory over Northern Arizona on Sunday at the Pit.
Delaney finished with a game-high 22 points, tallied 13 rebounds, two blocked shots and two steals in the Lobos 76-55 rout against the Central Arkansas Bears Wednesday night at the Pit.
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