LAS 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.
LAS VEGAS — The Viking-clad Lobo fan at the southeast end of the Thomas & Mack Center held up a sign reading, “No.
While 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.
The 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.
This week signals the mayhem before madness.
Only 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.
Let he who has not voted cast the first stone.
Aubrey Bush has everything going against her. Yet, somehow, she’s a Mountain West Conference diving champion, finishing with two top 3 finishes, including first place in the MWC platform dive on Feb.
As the clock struck zero, the UNM men’s basketball team lined up two ladders, one under each basket, and cut down the nets at The Pit. To get there, the Lobos (28-3 overall, 14-2 MWC) had to fend off TCU.
Conference cliffhanger? Hardly. This could be perceived to be as listless as games come, the anticlimactic point in the season. And so, the UNM men’s basketball team follows arguably the best game in Mountain West Conference history, against BYU, with quite possibly one of the worst. At home – against, well, TCU, one of the conference’s doormats. Today’s game stands in stark contrast to the Lobos’ season finale a year ago.
Roman Martinez wasn’t supposed to be a part of such a special season. In his senior year, the UNM men’s basketball team was picked to finish fifth in the Mountain West Conference.
The Mountain West Conference issued UNM head basketball coach Steve Alford a public reprimand for “unduly” verbal language aimed at BYU senior Jonathan Tavernari, after the Lobos defeated the Cougars at the Provo, Utah Marriott Center on Saturday, 83-81.
Never in her wildest dreams did Sandy Fortner envision the last year of her college career to be such a wild and bumpy ride. Fortner, a Fort Sumner native, returned to the top of the peak at the Mountain West Conference Indoor Championships during the women’s high jump on Friday at the Albuquerque Convention Center. After busting her kneecap last year, Fortner broke her own UNM school record with an NCAA qualifying score of 4,147.
As humdrum stories go, this one seemed to have an especially foreseeable conclusion. As expected, Lee Emanuel, the defending NCAA indoor mile champion, glazed the one-mile field of competitors at the Mountain West Conference Indoor Championships inside the Albuquerque Convention Center Saturday, racing to first place with a time of 4:05.85 (4:00.53 altitude-adjusted) and smashing the previous Mountain West Conference record of 4:10.04.
Welcome to the world of road cycling, where millimeters and seconds make a huge difference. UNM Cycling Team President, John Heine, has been a part of the team for a year and wants cycling to get stronger in the community.
For four seniors, Saturday was the last game they would play at The Pit. Amy Beggin, Jessica Kielpinski, Valerie Kast and Georonika Jackson finished the afternoon the same way they started — with a 16-3 run.
Teeming with pride, the UNM baseball team was still, apparently, making a Texas toast to themselves. Briefly, the Lobos dawdled with Northern Colorado, a team they beat handily last season by a combined three-game score of 46-9.
Last season, the UNM men’s basketball team captured a share of the Mountain West Conference championship with a win in its final game of the season. Saturday, the Lobos sealed that title a game earlier, with an 83-81 win against BYU in Provo, Utah.
It’s home sweet home for the UNM baseball team. The Lobos (2-1), ranked No. 19 in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, have their home opener today, a four-series against Northern Colorado at Isotopes Park. Northern Colorado will play its first games of the season.
The Mountain West Conference caucuses are over. The time for teams to put in their applications for first-place candidacy has come and gone.
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