UNM basketball sports information director Eugene Canal introduced Elijah Brown at Saturday night’s post-game news conference with the following:
“Elijah Brown had 41 points tonight, 11 rebounds, six assists …”
But before Canal could follow up with the customary, “we’ll now take questions from the media,” Brown interrupted.
“And six turnovers.”
After a short pause, reporters started firing questions at Brown about his career-high scoring performance and also about another bad second half defensive collapse in UNM’s 92-82 loss to Fresno State. In almost every answer, Brown made as much an effort to take ownership of UNM’s struggles as he did in trying to fight off second half double teams to get up another jump shot against the Bulldogs.