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Column: Sports editor goes half-beard, full ridiculous to cap No-shave November experience

Robert Maler | December 3

It's December now, but last month many people chose to forego shaving to take part in the phenomenon known as "no-shave November". Many men started growing out their facial hair and some women stopped their routine of leg-shaving as the 30-day event kicked off. A lot of people—perhaps even some of those who participate in no-shave November festivities—may not know there is a reason behind making the decision to forego grooming.

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Men's Basketball: Lobos fall to the Miners 88-76 on the road

Robert Maler | December 2

Lobo men's basketball left El Paso, Texas the same way they entered it on Saturday evening — struggling to find its shot and winless away from home. New Mexico fell to 3-5 on the season, falling behind after some long stretches of the game without making a field goal. UTEP used those moments to capitalize and build a lead, eventually walking away with an 88-76 decision. The Lobos have really struggled to knock down shots away from their home court at Dreamstyle Arena. The team has shot a healthy 49.7 percent from the floor at home, but that success rate has plummeted to 36.8 percent when playing outside of Albuquerque.

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Men's Basketball: Lobos in search of first road victory

Robert Maler | December 2

New Mexico basketball took care of business on Wednesday to get back in the win column and has a chance to notch its first victory outside of Dreamstyle Arena on Saturday against UTEP. The Lobos (3-4, 0-0 MW) handled Evansville in their most recent matchup, a 78-59 triumph over the Purple Aces. But UNM has struggled outside the comforts of home, posting an 0-3 record so far this season. UTEP has problems of its own. The Miners won their season opener by 50 points—pounding Louisiana College 100-50 at the Don Haskins Center, but have lost six straight games since then.

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Women’s Basketball: Lobos beat UTEP in first road game this season

Matthew Narvaiz | December 1

Playing on the road for the first time this season didn’t stop the University of New Mexico women’s basketball team in its tracks. Instead, the Lobos defeated the UTEP Miners (4-1) in decisive fashion at the Don Haskins Center, 59-35, to improve their record to a still-perfect 8-0 so far this season. The win, though, wasn’t without the help of 25 UTEP turnovers, which was due in part to the Lobos’ stout defense. Head coach Mike Bradbury seemed pleased with his team’s defensive showing on Thursday, saying it was a great performance. “That was unbelievable defense,” Bradbury said in a press release. “Our kids followed the plan. We made it tough on (UTEP).”

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Men's Basketball: Lobos end four-game skid with big win over Evansville

Robert Maler | November 30

Lobo basketball bounced back from some poor shooting and turnovers early in the game to pull away from the Evansville Purple Aces Wednesday night to get back in the win column. UNM head coach Paul Weir said his team did a lot of things well, but still has issues hauling in defensive rebounds and protecting the paint. He said Evansville was a good test, especially defensively and it good to see his team respond and take the 78-59 victory. New Mexico (3-4, 0-0 MW) got on the board in a hurry after junior guard Troy Simons came off a screen and nailed a 3-point basket just 14 seconds into the game. But then the Lobos went cold, hitting just three of their next 13 shots. It was the kind of cold shooting that buried the team in its last game—an 80-65 loss in which UNM started just 1-for-12 and found itself in an early 24-point hole against Maryland.

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Women's Basketball: UNM hopes to extend its hot streak

Matthew Narvaiz | November 29

The University of New Mexico Lobos, who have started off a fresh 7-0 this season, will head down to El Paso, Texas to play UTEP in the team’s first game away from Dreamstyle Arena this season. UNM has had the advantage of playing all seven of its games at home this season, a definite boost to the team’s unblemished record, while the UTEP Miners (4-0) have also started out the season undefeated, winning all four of their games at home too. The Lobos, with their hot start, also received 19 points and are ranked 29th in the most recent AP standings.

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News

Anderson School of Management to host Special Olympics run

Shubham Chadha | November 26

In collaboration with the Anderson School of Management, Special Olympics New Mexico will host the annual Santa Shuffle 5K & Elf Scoot 1K. Participants will convene at the Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum on Dec. 2 at 9 a.m. to raise funds and awareness for Special Olympics New Mexico. “This will be our second year organizing the event, and we hope to see more people,” said Arlene Armijo, a Special Olympics New Mexico representative. “We hope the run will help us raise awareness of Special Olympics New Mexico.”

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Women's Basketball: Lobos remain undefeated, winning three games at UNM Thanksgiving Tournament

Matthew Narvaiz | November 26

Three games. Three days. Three wins. The University of New Mexico women's basketball team made 18 shots from beyond the arc and willed its way to a 97-68 victory over Illinois on Sunday at Dreamstyle Arena—giving the Lobos the Thanksgiving tournament sweep, while also improving to an unblemished 7-0 record so far this season.

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Men's Basketball: Lobos unable to climb out of early hole, lose 80-65 to Maryland

Robert Maler | November 26

A pair of big early runs by Maryland proved to be too much for University of New Mexico men's basketball team to overcome Saturday afternoon, as the Lobos lose again at the Emerald Coast Classic. Maryland (6-1) jumped all over New Mexico on Saturday in the tournament's consolation game. The Terrapins scored the first eight points of the game and then responded with a 19-0 run after UNM was finally able to put its first points on the scoreboard. The shaky start for the Lobos put them in a 27-3 hole to start the game—a deficit that seemed insurmountable as the Terrapins cruised to an 80-65 victory.

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Football: Lobos end season with seventh-straight loss, suffering 35-10 defeat to San Diego State

Robert Maler | November 26

New Mexico football didn’t quite live up to expectations as last season’s No. 1 rushing team and as Mountain Division champion, seemed to take a major step back, suffering its seventh consecutive loss to end the season. For the fifth time in the last seven games, New Mexico (3-9, 1-7 MW) failed to score an offensive touchdown in the first half and found itself in the familiar position of playing from behind. The Lobos were never able to mount a serious comeback and succumbed to San Diego State by a score of 35-10. The offense showed glimpses during the season of what it was capable of — but Friday wasn’t one of them. UNM was held to a season-low 82 rushing yards — the lowest output during Bob Davie’s Lobo coaching tenure.

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Women’s Basketball: UNM defeats UC Irvine, will face Illinois tomorrow

Matthew Narvaiz | November 25

After a sloppy first half, the University of New Mexico women’s basketball team cruised to an 83-61 victory over UC Irvine in the team’s second game of the Thanksgiving tournament at Dreamstyle Arena. In the first half, the Lobos (6-0) commuted 12 turnovers, with seven of those coming from senior guard Cherise Beynon. The team’s season average, though, was only 9.8 per game, so to see them commit that much in the frame alone wasn’t a pretty sight. Head coach Mike Bradbury took the blame for Beynon’s 11 total turnovers in the game, saying that a lot of them were his fault since he put his senior guard in bad positions.

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Women's Basketball: Lobos defeat Wichita State at UNM Thanksgiving Tournament

Matthew Narvaiz | November 25

The University of New Mexico women’s basketball team picked up right where they left off before the Thanksgiving holiday — with a win. The team moved to a perfect 5-0 record on the season after defeating a capable Wichita State team, 76-62, on Friday evening at Dreamstyle Arena. The start is the best for UNM since the 2012-13 season, when the Lobos also began 5-0. But still have a way to go to match the record for most wins to open a season, which was set during the 1996-97 campaign, when the team started out 9-0 on the season.

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Men's Basketball: Lobos fail to get over hump against TCU, miss potential game-winner at the buzzer

Robert Maler | November 25

New Mexico got off to a good start, but faced a late-game deficit for the second time in as many games — and wound up with the same result as the Lobos failed to close the gap late. Despite a good defensive effort by the Lobos and missed opportunities for the Horned Frogs down the stretch, TCU did just enough to hang on for a 69-67 win to advance to the championship round of the Emerald Coast Classic. "We're going to play teams very similar to TCU this year, they're going to be bigger than us, stronger than us, they're going to be more experienced than us," UNM head coach Paul Weir said in a release. "They have a lot of things we don't, so we're trying to accentuate the things we have, which to me would be speed, shooting, depth and conditioning and trying to bring those into the game as much as we can."

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Men's Basketball: Lobos off to compete in Emerald Coast Classic, faces TCU on Friday

Matthew Narvaiz | November 24

After losing two straight, the University of New Mexico men’s basketball team will try to pick itself up and get a win against the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs in Niceville, Florida. New Mexico (2-2, 0-0 MW) began the season by scoring over 100 points in each of its first two games—both wins. But followed it up with losses on the road to New Mexico State last Friday and a 104-96 defeat at home to Tennessee Tech on Tuesday.

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Women’s Basketball: Lobos to host a Thanksgiving tournament over the weekend

Matthew Narvaiz | November 24

The Lobos will head into their Thanksgiving tournament undefeated, as they’ll host Wichita State, Illinois and UC Irvine throughout the weekend, while hoping to keep their impressive streak alive. For UNM (4-0), they are coming off of two great weeks, which saw them win all four of their games, with only one of those wins coming against a lesser school in Northern New Mexico. The Lobos’ other three wins, however, have been hard-fought, well-earned battles, beating the likes of a high-ranked Marquette team, a gritty Western Michigan team and the always tough in-state rival New Mexico State.

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Men's Basketball: Lobos fade down the stretch, fall to Tennessee Tech

Robert Maler | November 22

Lobo men's basketball suffered another setback losing at home Tuesday night and may have left fans with more questions than answers about the identity of the team. New Mexico (2-2, 0-0 MW) dropped its second contest in a row to fall to .500 on the season, while the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles used the 104-96 victory over the Lobos to improve its record to 4-1. UNM appeared to be eager to drop the hammer on its opponent early and prove that Friday night's 75-56 loss in Las Cruses against the Aggies was an aberration. The Lobos jumped out to an early 8-0 lead by the time the first media break came around and the team looked to be on track to do just that.

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Men’s Basketball: Lobos to host Tennessee Tech in second round of Emerald Coast Classic

Matthew Narvaiz | November 21

After a 19 point loss to New Mexico State on Friday in Las Cruces, the Lobos (2-1) will try to rebound with a win at home against the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles. As for TTU (3-1), they only have one loss on the season to Texas Christian University—a team that had received votes in national polls. More recently, though, the Golden Eagles are coming off a victory against Kennesaw State. In UNM’s loss to the Aggies last week, they were dominated on the board, being outrebounded by their rival 50-25 while 25 of those were NMSU offensive rebounds, ultimately leading to 23 second chance points. “Spent a lot of time on rebounding obviously since the New Mexico State game,” head coach Paul Weir said at a press conference on Monday. “Very troubling execution at that end of the floor as much as we want to tip our hat to them and they did a great job there, there’s a lot that we needed to clean up and that was pretty much yesterday’s practice and will be today’s practice as well.”

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Women's Basketball: Nunn named Mountain West Player of the Week

Matthew Narvaiz | November 21

In a week that saw junior post Jaisa Nunn break a Lobo record for points scored in a game, the Mountain West has named her the conference's Player of the Week, marking the second straight UNM player to do so this season. Senior guard Cherise Beynon picked up the accolade in the team’s first week, after nearly putting up triple-double in UNM’s season opener against Western Michigan. Nunn, who is in her third year playing for UNM and in her second under head coach Mike Bradbury, followed it up with a brilliant performance against Marquette, which was ranked No. 16 at the time.

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Volleyball: 16-16 for the season with two wins and one loss

Aaron Cowan | November 20

UNM Women’s volleyball completed their season in a week of intense play, routing UTEP and UNLV at home, but falling to the Air Force Academy in their final match. The Lobos now stand at 16-16 ( or .500) for the season and 7-11 in Mountain West play, which puts them 8th in conference rankings. This is the 10th season that Lobo volleyball has achieved at least .500 for the season in the 11 years that head coach Jeff Nelson has led the program. UNM started the week with a match against the University of Texas El Paso Miners at Johnson. Coming off a three game losing streak, the Lobos were desperately hoping to flip that script and they found a way to do just that. In the end the Lobos swept the Miners, who now stand at 6-22 for the season, in three straight sets, 25-16, 25-16 and 28-26. In a press release, redshirt junior Victoria Spragg said, "We've kind of been going up and down...so today was just a little redemption and showing ourselves and the fans that we can play volleyball”.

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Football: No happy ending for UNM on "senior night" as the Lobos fall again

Robert Maler and Cameron Goeldner | November 19

Senior quarterback Lamar Jordan looked to be in line to be the hero after he engineering a late go-ahead touchdown drive, but left too much time on the clock as UNLV crashed the party to snatch the victory on Friday night. New Mexico (3-8, 1-6 MW) was dealt its sixth consecutive loss, falling in its final home game of the season 38-35 to UNLV. UNLV scored on its first two possessions, taking a 10-0 lead about midway through the first quarter and it looked like the Lobos might be in trouble early.