The little things didn’t quite add up for the UNM men’s basketball team Saturday night.
With 22nd-ranked San Diego State shooting the lights out in the second half, the Lobos needed — and didn’t get — enough of the little things in Saturday’s staggering 73-71 loss in a raucous, sold-out Pit.
UNM coach Richard Pitino noted a few of the small things, along with one painfully obvious big one in his postgame media conference. The latter was Lamont Butler’s buzzer-beating 3-point dagger that ended the game and started an Aztecs celebration.
“They made one more play than we did,” Pitino said.