Catching their breath and resting after a two-hour practice in the Pit on Saturday afternoon, former Lobo basketball players of different eras were talking their trash and telling stories when the subject of the only non-Lobo playing for “The Enchantment” in Monday’s TBT basketball tournament came up.
About 30 feet away, 32-year-old Del Norte High graduate Scott Bamforth was putting up free throws as they talked.
While former Lobos like Drew Gordon, Anthony Mathis and Roman Martinez have been on posters and doing radio interviews trying to drum up excitement for this eight-team regional in the $1 million winner-take-all The Basketball Tournament, Bamforth is barely mentioned despite being the only player on the roster who is actually from New Mexico.