Emptying the Notebook: UNM’s shrinking frontcourt a big problem in UNLV loss

Thomas & Mack Center at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 11, 2022. (Geoff Grammer/Albuquerque Journal)LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Here are a few extra notes, quotes, stats, tweets or whatever else I could empty out of the old notebook after Tuesday’s 85-56 UNLV win over the UNM Lobos in the Thomas & Mack Center:

Small Lobos have big problem

For three very different reasons, the UNM Lobos are a team right now without a center ready for for big, productive minutes at this level.

And through three, winless Mountain West games, the unfortunate side effects of a short team seeming to shrink before our eyes are impossible to ignore.

Taller teams are giving the guards problems and there’s nobody with size…