Some fans – maybe 1,000 or so of them that attended Friday night’s Cherry/Silver game in the Pit – finally caught a glimpse of the future of Lobo basketball.
Or, at least the one head coach Richard Pitino believes, and in a transfer heavy world certainly hopes, will come to be, assuming highly-touted freshman point guard Donovan Dent sticks around Albuquerque a while.
The 6-foot-2 guard from national powerhouse Centennial High in Corona, California, the one who was named “Mr. Basketball” in that hoops-happy state and was recently ranked No. 17 among the “Top 100 Incoming Freshmen” in the country by Lindy’s college basketball magazine, finally got to shine in front of the fans at Friday’s intrasquad scrimmage.