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MWC announces modified basketball schedule format for 2020-21 season

MWC announces modified basketball schedule format for 2020-21 season

The Mountain West Conference announced changes to the 2020-21 Men’s and Women’s Basketball schedule format on Monday afternoon. According to the release, teams will play a 20-game schedule under a modified format that will take place over 11 weeks. Teams will face each other in a two-game series in the same week, with a one-day…Continue Reading »

UNM Basketball: Lobos take on Utah State in MWC tournament semis

The No. 3 seed University of New Mexico men’s basketball team took care of business on Thursday in the second round of the Mountain West Conference tournament, defeating the No. 6 seed Wyoming Cowboys 85-75 in Las Vegas. Joe Furstinger led all scorers with 23 points on eight of 13 shooting while posting a game-high…Continue Reading »

UNM Basketball: Lobos use depth to outlast Aggies in 78-63 victory

The University of New Mexico men’s basketball team played with just six scholarship players when they lost to Utah State 89-80 in Logan, Utah on January 31st. With a full complement of 10 scholarship players at his disposal on Wednesday night at the Pit, head coach Paul Weir and the Lobos used their depth to…Continue Reading »

UNM Basketball: Lobos outlast Rebels to earn first road victory

Paul Weir and the Lobos earned their elusive first road win of the season with an impressive come-from-behind 85-81 win over the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels at the Thomas and Mack Center on Wednesday Night. UNM scored nine points in the final 1:07 of play, including a critical four-point play by Anthony Mathis, to complete the…Continue Reading »

UNM Basketball: Lobos cruise to easy 80-47 win over San José State

Freshman Makuach Maluach led the Lobos with 15 points, while senior guard Antino Jackson added 11 points and a game-high seven assists as the Lobos defeated the San José State  Spartans 80-47 in a lopsided victory at DreamStyle Arena on Saturday Night. The heavily favored Lobos took advantage of a favorable matchup at home against…Continue Reading »

UNM Basketball: Turnovers and free throws sink Lobos

UNM’s hopes for a Mountain West Conference regular season title likely vanished on Saturday with a 71-61 road loss against the Fresno State Bulldogs, as the Lobos now find themselves 1.5 games behind a trio of teams atop the conference standings with only three games to play. In a somewhat sloppy game in which both…Continue Reading »