Even with four top players gone, the UNM men’s soccer team is not worrying. Players are filling in holes and new leaders are emerging. One of these leaders is defender and team captain Mathew Gibbons. Last year was Gibbon’s third straight season playing at least 1,800 minutes.
Men’s basketball The men’s basketball team hired Alan Huss to become the new assistant coach, UNM announced Tuesday. Huss spent his last four seasons as the head coach of La Lumiere School, a prep program in La Porte, Indiana. He replaces Craig Snow, who became the new head coach at New Mexico Highlands University in July. Huss will officially join the staff later this summer, pending UNM human resources approval.
Young teams are often threatened with having to endure a learning curve. However, the University of New Mexico volleyball team is confident that the unit will be good to go as soon as the season starts. “This team has been a long time in the making. We’re excited about it,” head coach Jeff Nelson said. “We’re poised to make a good run for a while … We’re ready to make a run at the conference championship.”
Although the UNM men’s soccer team had a successful season last year, the question at the beginning of every season is always the same: What will this season be like? Last year the Lobos won the Conference USA regular-season title in its first season in the league, and made it all the way to the Final Four in the NCAA Tournament. It was a season the team could be proud of, but success did not come easy; senior forward James Rogers said the team didn’t know what to expect at first because they had lost many good players.
Both halves of last year’s strong New Mexico backcourt reached the NBA ranks over the summer. Cameron Bairstow signed a professional contract with the Chicago Bulls, the team announced on July 21. The Bulls drafted Bairstow with the 49th overall pick just one year after taking another former UNM player, Tony Snell. “Appreciate all the support from everyone throughout this process!!” Bairstow wrote on Twitter. “Excited to be a part of the Bulls!!”
The New Mexico women’s basketball team concluded its tour of Italy with a 54-41 loss to the Netherlands National Team.
The New Mexico women’s basketball team had trouble closing out the Netherlands national team in its first loss of the Italy exhibition tour.
The UNM men’s soccer team proved its worth last year during its inaugural season in Conference USA by going 7-1-1 and winning the regular-season title. This year the team is coming back to show that its first-year success in C-USA was not beginner’s luck. On Wednesday, Conference USA announced that the UNM men’s soccer team is the preseason favorite to take the conference championship.
The New Mexico women’s basketball team has grown during its exhibition tour in Italy. The squad improved to 2-0 with a 70-54 victory over the Adriatic Sea Sirens last Saturday. “We played well,” head coach Yvonne Sanchez told reporters of GoLobos.com.
Senior guard Antiesha Brown received the game’s MVP after scoring 16 points in a 74-37 route against AS Vincenza on Thursday night in the opening game of the NCAA Vicenza Tour exhibition.
The message was clear: it’s time for the New Mexico football team to move on. After two years of rebuilding, UNM head football coach Bob Davie said its time the program starts looking toward the future and stop dwelling on the past.
Albuquerque will always be a second home to Katie Hnida. Hnida, who became the first woman to score in a Division I football in 2003, decided to return to Albuquerque this past week to help host UNM’s annual women’s football clinic. Hnida kicked two extra points in a 72-8 blowout victory over Texas State-San Marcos.
It appears that the New Mexico football team still hasn’t done enough to change its perception around the Mountain West. On Tuesday, Mountain West media members predicted the Lobos will finish fifth in the Mountain Division this upcoming year.
Former New Mexico men’s basketball player Cameron Bairstow signed a three year deal with the Chicago Bulls earlier today. The Bulls selected Bairstow in the second round of the NBA draft with the 49th overall selection in June. The terms of the contract were not released per term policy.
Printed January 11, 1988 The UNM basketball team, fresh from its 61-59 victory over the then No. 5 Wyoming in the Pit last Saturday night.
Printed March 22, 2004 UNM’s ski team has gone down in history as the first Lobo team to win an NCAA title in the school’s history. Solid performances from the Alpine and the Nordic teams helped secure the title for UNM at the 2004 NCAA Skiing Championships held in Truckee, Calif.
Printed September 2, 2003 Katie Hnida had been waiting eight months to redeem herself for a missed extra point against UCLA in the Sega Sports Las Vegas Bowl on Christmas day.
Printed April 1, 1999 In what was called a “painful, but very necessary, decision,” by UNM Athletic Director Rudy Davalos, the UNM Athletics Department announced it would cut the funding of three sports for the 1999-2000 fiscal year. Those cuts mean the elimination of men’s swimming, men’s gymnastics and men’s wrestling teams from the athletic program. Davalos said in a news release the cuts were necessary because the department did not have enough resources to support 24 athletic programs. “Maintaining programs that are regionally and nationally competitive was a condition of membership in the Mountain West Conference, and we will allocate all of our resources to ensure that our remaining sports can achieve excellence,” he said in the release. The department said the elimination of the three sports is expected to reduce department expenditures by approximately $175,000 for its 1999-2000 budget, and its savings will eventually grow to more than $300,000 annually.
Printed July 1-7, 1999 The Mountain West Conference (MWC) has become the newest conference in Division I-A of the NCAA.
Printed December 2, 1964 The UNM Basketball Lobos overcame a cold start and a 27-25 halftime deficit to down the underestimated Wildcats of Abilene Christian College 62-53 last night in the season opener for both clubs. First-game sluggishness plagued the Wolfpack through most of the game, which officially opened the new University Basketball Arena before a crowd of 12,020, just 2,800 short of capacity. The Wildcats, virtually unknown to Albuqeurque and not too well-known to even the Lobo mentors, showed up sporting NCAA Regional Champion patches on their warmup jackets and started fans wondering just how tough the boys from Abilene were.
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