Even if you haven’t been to the Pit this season while the crowd is roaring again, you may have thought you could hear distant yells and screams from east of Albuquerque during Lobo basketball games.
You might not be imagining things.
As the UNM men (19-4, 6-4 Mountain West) have been enjoying a breakthrough Year 2 under head coach Richard Pitino, some 650 miles away in the Dallas area, the Toppin family – including 6-foot-8 high school power forward Jadyn Toppin, who signed in November to play at UNM next season – has been thoroughly enjoying every game his future team has played so far.