Not surprisingly, Steve Alford didn’t have any preseason premonitions when he was asked to estimate how many wins the UNM men’s basketball team needs to get into the NCAA Tournament this year.
Ten of the 12 UNM men’s basketball players have one year or less of experience in Division I college basketball.
RIO RANCHO — Jamal Fenton isn’t Joe Namath — he came about two inches short of delivering on a promise. At Media Day for UNM men’s basketball on Thursday at the Davalos Center, the 5-foot-8-inch point guard had fighting words for his teammates.
It wasn’t quite the homecoming the UNM volleyball team expected. Coming off back-to-back road wins against rival New Mexico State and Mountain West Conference foe Utah last week, the Lobos dropped a 25-21, 25-18, 25-18 match to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Saturday at Johnson Gym. Halfway through the MWC schedule, UNM is 13-7 overall and 4-4 in conference. “It’s a hard hit for us,” said head coach Jeff Nelson.
The UNM men’s tennis team dominated this weekend’s Balloon Fiesta Invite at the Linda Estes Tennis Complex. The Lobos combined for a 25-6 record in singles and went 9-2 in doubles.
There was no jet lag for the UNM women’s soccer team. After their first conference loss of the season against Wyoming, the Lobos bounced back strong on Saturday against.
Smile Lobo fans — the UNM football team can’t possibly lose this coming Saturday. UNM won’t play for two weeks thanks to a bye this week, something Lobo football coach Mike Locksley said is a blessing, considering how banged up the Lobos are. Most notably, tailback Demond Dennis was absent and didn’t play in UNM’s 37-13 loss Saturday to conference foe Wyoming.
This Saturday, first-year head coach Mike Locksley will be doing the Hokey Pokey for the first time. His Lobos will head up north to face Mountain West Conference foe, Wyoming. But it won’t be the first time Locksley’s run into Dave Christensen, now the Pokes’ first-year head coach. Christensen faced Locksley twice during his coaching tenure at Missouri.
Hope for the UNM softball team comes in the form of pitchers this season. The Lobos signed three new pitchers — Kari Gutierrez, Samantha Gatson and Kaela DeBroeck — and DeBroeck took the mound on Wednesday in a doubleheader scrimmage against Luna Community College.
Five minutes into Wednesday’s contest against UC-Irvine, Lobo forward Justin Davis couldn’t find the back of the net.
UNM sophomore middle blocker Ashley Rhoades was named the Mountain West Conference Co-Player of the Week this week. After posting 26 kills and hitting a combined .632 in two games last week, Rhoades shares the honor with TCU’s middle blocker Kourtney Edwards. Lobo head coach Jeff Nelson said Rhoades deserves the recognition. “What she did this week is pretty ridiculous,” he said.
“Iron Mike” Locksley’s name precedes him. As the first-year head coach jogged off the field on Saturday, a group of Texas Tech fans in the South end zone heckled him, chanting, “punch, punch, punch,” according to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. “I’m reaping what I sowed,” Locksley said.
Rose Morris made a memorable return to the volleyball court Saturday at Johnson Gym. After missing seven matches since she dislocated her left pinky finger while blocking against Pittsburgh Sept.
LUBBOCK, Texas — At the beginning of the third quarter, the clouds huddled over Jones AT&T Stadium finally opened up.
Michael Green, the UNM men’s soccer team’s forward, put on a clinic against Cal State Northridge in front of a season-high 3,250 fans Saturday at the UNM Soccer Complex. Green’s man-of-the-match performance guided the Lobos to a 2-0 win.
If the UNM women’s first conference game is any indication, the Lobos might soon prove to the rest of the Mountain West Conference that their 8-1-2 nonconference start wasn’t just for show. In UNM’s conference opener, the Lobos hosted Texas Christian University Saturday at the UNM Soccer Complex and bounced back from their first loss of the season with a 1-0 win.
In light of the recent news swirling around Lobo football, many might wonder if it can get any worse for head coach Mike Locksley and the UNM football team. Well, Las Vegas odds makers think so. The Lobos, 35.5-point underdogs, are off to Lubbock, Texas, to face pass-happy Texas Tech.
Head coach Mike Locksley confirmed Tuesday that Lobo safety Ian Clark will undergo season-ending surgery on his left shoulder this week. Earlier this month, a source told the Daily Lobo that it was “90 percent sure” Clark was out for the season after he re-injured his left shoulder in UNM’s season-opener against Texas A&M. Clark didn’t play in the Lobos’ home-opener against Tulsa on Sept.
Tim Tebow is a remarkably detestable football player. There’s the endless media fawning, the squeaky-clean image, the dumbfounding Heisman acceptance speech and, of course, the God complex. Tebow, the bruising, gee-golly face of college football, is the ambassador from a world of early bedtimes and rubber wristbands.
If this weekend’s fall invitational was a quiz for the UNM women’s tennis team, then the Lobos need to study more. Even though UNM combined for a 1-41 record this weekend, head coach Roy Cañada said this year the Lobos are a strong young team. “If I were to compare this to academic terms, I approached this weekend as a quiz for us,” he said.
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