Not even the 7,400 fans at the Sanchez sellout game could help the women’s basketball team to victory. Junior guard Caroline Durbin was the only player in double digits.
The men’s basketball team faces its toughest test of the season so far when it takes on No. 16 San Diego State tonight at The Pit.
Three isn’t a crowd, but it is a goal for the baseball team. The UNM baseball team has been to the NCAA tournament for the last two years, and this year senior pitcher Rudy Jaramillo said the team expects to make it to the tournament again.
The race to the MWC championship lost a hurdle this year for the men’s and women’s track teams.
The men’s and women’s basketball teams’ fortunes clashed during the winter break. The men’s team won all six of the games it played during break. It is now 15-2 overall and is on a 13-game winning streak, the fourth longest in the country.
The men’s ski team is going down the slope of their season at full-force, despite the loss of several athletes.
Senior guard Nikki Nelson was on fire Monday night, but she said her team is more to be thanked. “Our team did outstanding tonight,” Nelson said.
The first half of the men’s basketball game on Saturday against North Dakota should have been called the Kendall Williams show. Williams, a sophomore guard, had 15 points in the first half and a career high of 21 points for the game.
The Lobos might live up to their status as the preseason favorite to win the Mountain West Conference.
The Lobos dominated on Thursday night, winning their second game in three days for an eight game winning streak.
The winter air blowing through The Pit couldn’t even explain the Lobos’ cold shooting on Thursday. UNM shot just 9-31 in the first half and was only 32.2 percent from the field for the game in its 54-61 loss to the University of Northern Colorado (UNC). “It was a disappointing game all around,” head coach Yvonne Sanchez said.
The battle for the strangest trophy in sports kicks off on Saturday. Wyoming faces Temple at 12 p.m. in the sixth annual Gildan New Mexico Bowl, the first bowl game of the season, for a chance to raise the 20-inch Native American clay pot.
The women’s basketball team came out cold against the University of Texas El-Paso on Saturday and never warmed up, falling to the Miners 53-43 at The Pit.
Like true wolves, the Lobos surrounded Missouri State early in the game on Saturday, and kept their prey down for a 76-60 victory.
First-year head women’s basketball coach Yvonne Sanchez snagged her first rival win against New Mexico State in the Rio Grande Rivalry on Sunday.
George Barlow’s tenure as interim head football coach, and the football team’s season, ended Saturday with a 45-0 blowout loss to No. 7 Boise State.
The guards of the men’s basketball team defended the Lobos’ four game winning streak.
Saturday’s football game against Boise State is Lobo senior linebacker Carmen Messina’s last, and it’s also his chance to beat the University’s all-time tackle record.
Twenty years removed from its last meeting, the UNM basketball team and Idaho State played to the same result. The Lobos (5-2) defeated the Bengals (1-5) 65-41 Wednesday at the Pit behind a balanced offensive attack in which no UNM player scored in double figures.
Twenty years removed from its last meeting, the UNM basketball team and Idaho State played to the same result.
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