If it seems like a while since you’ve seen the New Mexico Lobos play a Mountain West game in the Pit, you’re right.
When Saturday night’s men’s basketball game tips off against Utah State (9-5,0-1) at 6 p.m., it will have been 679 days since the last time the Lobos (7-7, 0-1) hosted a conference game – coincidentally also a game against the Aggies in a 66-64 Lobos victory.
More specific to this season, first-year head coach Richard Pitino’s crew hasn’t played a game of any kind in the Pit since a nonconference win over Norfolk State on Dec.