Remember these guys?
Richard Pitino sure hopes so.
The UNM Lobos — the same ones that improved to 3-0 with a road pounding of SMU in Dallas on Nov. 15 and had a desperate fanbase buzzing again — open the three-day, four-team Lobo Classic on Friday afternoon and seem to be a team that hasn’t played in ages.
Aside from the literal layoff of 10 days since they last played — and 14 days since last playing in the Pit — the Lobo men’s basketball team, like everyone else, has had to try and digest the realities of life outside of basketball.