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Been there, hadn't done that
Mario Trujillo | March 13Mario Trujillo Daily Lobo LAS VEGAS — The San Diego State women’s basketball team had been here before.
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Champion Aztecs survive wicked MWC tournament
Ryan Tomari | March 13LAS VEGAS It wasn’t exactly the greatest Mountain West Conference basketball game ever played between San Diego State and UNLV, but the Aztecs didn’t care, nor should they.
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White-wash
Ryan Tomari | March 13LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Billy White’s performance in the first half of the Mountain West Conference semi-finals looks like his typical stat sheet. Ten points per game, five rebounds, a couple of assists and, if he was lucky, a 3-pointer. But on Friday, the Aztecs luminary forward had a performance like the bright lights on the Las Vegas Strip. Even better, White’s career-best basketball recital came while he was hobbled by injury. Against UNM in San Diego on Jan.
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Farewell for now
Mario Trujillo | March 13LAS VEGAS — Take one: UNM point guard Dairese Gary takes the ball, drives the length of the court, nearly loses the ball inside the paint, regains control and misses a layup, banking it too hard off the glass.
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Aztecs don't want to leave their salvation to Selection Sunday
Isaac Avilucea | March 13LAS VEGAS — What’s good for the Mountain West Conference is good for the UNM men’s basketball team.
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Hobson's strength displayed in performance
Isaac Avilucea | March 12LAS VEGAS — In the corridor of Lobo legends, Darington Hobson might one day find his portrait comfortably positioned between former Lobos Danny Granger and J.R.
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BYU's frontrunner takes all the free throws he can get
Isaac Avilucea | March 12LAS VEGAS — It was an exhibition of the insanely uninteresting. With all due respect to BYU’s Jimmer Fredette, Thursday’s performance had to be one of the most monotonous 45-point onslaughts in the history of college basketball.
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UNM, SDSU prepare for game by licking wounds
Ryan Tomari | March 12LAS VEGAS — Hey Aztecs, ask nicely, and you shall receive. A group of San Diego State fans in the Thomas & Mack Center yelled, “We want the Lobos!” in the first half of SDSU’s opening game against No.
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Accustomed to victory
Mario Trujillo | March 12LAS VEGAS — Feb. 20 was supposed to serve as a memory — a day the UNM men’s basketball team could look back on late in the postseason to summon energy.
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Men's future looks bright this MWC
Isaac Avilucea | March 11LAS VEGAS — In the city of one-night stands, the UNM men’s basketball team’s relationship with the Mountain West Conference Tournament is promiscuously quick.
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Triple seals it for Utah in overtime
Isaac Avilucea | March 11There’s a template for the UNM-Utah women’s basketball game. This one, more or less, was a reproduction of the teams’ past encounters — a loosely officiated, rough-and-tumble, fast-paced contest. But, as has become an enduring trend, the Lobos ducked out in the second round of the Mountain West Conference tournament on Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center, falling short to the Utes for the eighth consecutive time, 51-45. Utah skidded by in overtime, compliments of a coffin-sealing 3-pointer by Kalee Whipple after the Lobos trimmed the deficit to 44-43.
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Matchup zone a maze to maneuver
Mario Trujillo | March 11Las Vegas, Nev. — Something oddly familiar lurked in the Thomas & Mack Center on Wednesday. For the few Lobos fans who filtered into the men’s No.
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Electric day of MWC action sets stage for furious finish
Ryan Tomari | March 11LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The opening round of the men’s Mountain West Conference tournament began on Wednesday with the two lowest seeds, Wyoming and Air Force, trying to earn a chance to face MWC regular-season champion New Mexico on Thursday. Meanwhile, in the quarterfinals of the MWC women’s tournament are set and No.
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On To the Next One
Ryan Tomari | March 9LAS VEGAS, Nev. — In order to make a big run in the postseason, the UNM women’s basketball team had to first make a little one. And the Lobos can thank second-year guard Sara Halasz and post player Valerie Kast for the nice little flicker they provided. Halasz helped UNM defeat Colorado State 67-54 in the first round of the Mountain West Conference Tournament on Tuesday.
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Sure-handed Beggin handles CSU
Isaac Avilucea | March 9LAS VEGAS — The Viking-clad Lobo fan at the southeast end of the Thomas & Mack Center held up a sign reading, “No.
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MWC first-round games suprisingly predictable
Mario Trujillo | March 9While the top three Mountain West Conference women’s basketball teams — No. 1 TCU, No. 2 BYU and No. 3 San Diego State — sat comfortably in their Las Vegas hotel rooms, the bottom six teams fought each other for a chance at another game.
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Alford named MWC Coach of the Year
Ryan Tomari | March 9The UNM men’s basketball team is going to need to make more room next to its 2009-10 Mountain West Conference regular-season championship trophy.
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MWC system favors top two teams
Ryan Tomari | March 8This week signals the mayhem before madness.
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Changeup buckles batter and coach
Isaac Avilucea | March 8Only a sociopath couldn’t help but feel empathetic for Lobo softball coach Ty Singleton. Considering how last year went for the head coach and his team (13-35 overall), a win over No.
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Jury breaks down players' qualifications for Player of the Year
Isaac Avilucea | March 8Let he who has not voted cast the first stone.
