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New coach, new attitude
March 28Twenty-one years removed from his college football heyday, George Barlow is still proving that he is a player’s coach, not just a coach who used to play.
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Mettle tested, still in the middle
Shaun Griswold | March 25From league-leading to middle of the pack, from the NCAA tournament to arguably the “Not Important” Tournament, the UNM men’s basketball team hit a wall one year after making a historic run. As head coach Steve Alford likes to remind people, the Lobos were without Darington Hobson and Roman Martinez — the latter graduated; the former left UNM to pursue a NBA career.
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Alumni uncertain about NFL
Ryan Tomari | March 25Lockout — it’s a word that hasn’t escaped the ears of former UNM football players Bryant Williams and Byron Bell. Yes, the NFL is at a collective bargaining standstill, but for draft prospects there is no work stoppage.
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Hope springs for Locksley’s Year 3
Cesar Davila | March 23With off-season house-cleaning over, the UNM football team hopes to spring forward the next four weeks, so it doesn’t fall back to the bottom of the Mountain West Conference. Third-year head coach Mike Locksley added new faces and reshuffled his staff, patching personnel holes with coaches from last year.
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Bearcats mauled in 14-point rout
Ryan Tomari | March 23Every game this season is a learning experience for the UNM baseball team. So says head coach Ray Birmingham. But Tuesday at Isotopes Park showed that the future looks bright for the Lobos. UNM put up nine runs in the second inning, seven before the Bearcats could get a single out.
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Heels overcome in chaotic finish
Ryan Tomari | March 22The Pit was inundated with Carolina blue on Monday. The fifth-seeded North Carolina women’s basketball defeated fourth-seeded Kentucky 86-74 in the second round of the women’s NCAA tournament.
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Heel! Bulldogs submit to Tar Heels in 82-68 stomp
Ryan Tomari | March 21The North Carolina women’s basketball team was just plain bigger than Fresno State. And the basket, at least for the Bulldogs, seemed as small as a golf hole. The 12th-seeded Fresno State Bulldogs took 50 3-pointers, missing 36, and their best player Jaleesa Ross made just four of the 20 3-pointers she launched.
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Wildcats scratch Lady Pirates from NCAA bracket
Ryan Tomari | March 21The Kentucky women’s basketball team heard about Hampton through the college basketball grapevine.
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Gary-less Lobos stare down Tide
Ryan Tomari | March 21Two words for the UNM men’s basketball team: Roll tide. The fourth-seeded Lobos will face top-seeded Alabama at its home tonight in the second round of the National Invitational Tournament.
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Another year, another championship for Utes
Ryan Tomari | March 12LAS VEGAS — There’s a reason Utah’s Michelle Plouffe was the Mountain West Conference women’s Freshman of the Year. After hitting a similar, end-of-times buzzer-beater against BYU in the semifinals, Plouffe hit a two-point jumper with 24 seconds left in overtime to lift the fifth-seeded Utah women’s basketball team over second-seeded TCU 52-47 in the MWC tournament championship.
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Mission accomplished
Shaun Griswold | March 12LAS VEGAS — San Diego State reminded basketball fans that the game is a team sport — not a one-man show, no matter how bedazzling. Like he has all season, BYU’s Jimmer Fredette put up another scintillating individual performance — 30 points — in Saturday’s Mountain West Conference tournament championship, but the second-seeded Aztecs exuded collective confidence, with three players in double figures.
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Lobos forced to watch another episode of The Jimmer Show
Ryan Tomari | March 12LAS VEGAS — It was a Jiimmer jamboree. For four straight contests, the UNM men’s basketball team walked away with wins against BYU.
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Gary watches Fredette catch fire from the bench
Shaun Griswold | March 12LAS VEGAS – It was the best show Vegas had to offer, unfortunately for the UNM men’s basketball team, its star performer missed the second act.
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That's a wrap
Ryan Tomari | March 11LAS VEGAS — It was a widely held opinion that the UNM women’s basketball team had no shot at the Mountain West Conference tournament. And on Friday, the shooting-in-the-dark Lobos literally didn’t.
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Playing the home card in Vegas
Shaun Griswold | March 11LAS VEGAS — Luck be the UNM women’s basketball team tonight. Already boasting two wins, the Lobos look to extend their unlikely Mountain West Conference tournament run in today’s semifinals where they’ll face second-seeded TCU at the Thomas & Mack Center.
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High hopes for freshman
Ryan Tomari | March 11LAS VEGAS — Sure it was hyperbole when guard Kendall Williams said he couldn’t understate the importance of Thursday’s first-round tournament game against fourth-seeded Colorado State. A bit of an overstatement, the freshman guard compared the Mountain West Conference tournament game to “war.” What couldn’t be embellished, though, was his importance to the UNM men’s basketball team in its 67-61 win over the Rams at the Thomas & Mack Center on Thursday.
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CSU sent packing in down-to-the-wire victory
Shaun Griswold | March 11LAS VEGAS — Once again, the UNM men’s basketball team will knock on BYU’s door. The fifth-seeded Lobos, behind forward Drew Gordon’s 13th double-double, knocked fourth-seeded Colorado State Rams out of the Mountain West Conference tournament 67-61 in a seesaw affair at the Thomas & Mack Center that saw five second-half ties and lead changes.
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Hoping for an extended Vegas tourney stay
Shaun Griswold | March 10LAS VEGAS — Wyoming, pack the bags and go home; TCU, stay another day. The ninth-seeded Horned Frogs defeated eighth-seeded Wyoming 70-61 Tuesday to advance to face top-seeded BYU in the Mountain West Conference tournament quarterfinals.
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Hoping for an extended Vegas tourney stay
Ryan Tomari | March 10LAS VEGAS — War is how the UNM men’s basketball team is describing it, but for those tired of the oft-used comparison, it’s more appropriately a game of Risk. On the line: an appearance in the Mountain West Conference tournament quarterfinals, and a likely date with No.
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Marching on
Ryan Tomari | March 10LAS VEGAS — Call them the flavor of the month. Forward Porche Torrance had two key blocks on Wyoming’s Aubrey Vandiver in the final 1:59, and the seventh-seeded Lobo women’s basketball team leaned on stingy, physical defense to shut down third-seeded Wyoming 67-61 Wednesday, setting up an improbable semifinals matchup against second-seeded TCU.
