Richard Pitino knows Saturday’s rematch with the Air Force Falcons won’t be a carbon copy of the Feb. 5 game played in Clune Arena in which his Lobos won comfortably — 91-77.
After all, expectations of repeating a record-setting individual performance like the one UNM point guard Jaelen House had that evening at the Academy, are simply unrealistic.
Besides, no two games are ever exactly the same.
But the first-year Lobos coach knows this, if his team doesn’t play with the same effort they put forth that night at Air Force on Feb. 5, and instead plays with the same sort of lack of intensity it showed in a pair of troubling road losses this past week, he’s not afraid to make a prediction about Lobos/Falcons Part II.