While the loss on the scoreboard was the one that got all the attention for the No. 21 UNM Lobos on Tuesday night in Fresno, it wasn’t the one that hurt the locker room the most.
During pregame warmups in the Save Mart Center, during some non-contact drills while the team was finalizing pregame warmups within 20 minutes or so of tipoff, senior wing Emmanuel Kuac, the longest tenured Lobo player or staff member who has played just 1 minute, 49 seconds this season while rehabbing from a broken leg suffered in the Pit on Jan. 8, 2022, tore his patellar tendon.