The preseason Mountain West Conference men’s basketball media poll had the Wyoming Cowboys and New Mexico Lobos tied.
Since then, Wyoming has enjoyed a dream season and has NCAA Tournament hopes while the wait-till-next year mantra was hung on the Lobos long ago.
But for 40 minutes on Saturday night, you’d have been hard pressed to say the two teams weren’t pretty equal.
Wyoming stars Graham Ike (29 points and 15 rebounds) and Hunter Maldonado (25 points, 7 assists) carried the load and carried the Cowboys to a 93-91 win over the Lobos in front of an announced Arena Auditorium crowd of 5,368 in Laramie.