Head coach Erica Beach arranged the beginning of the New Mexico softball season with a sink or swim frame of mind. “We have faced off against the best teams in the country… The experience we gained was huge,” Beach said. “I was hoping at the beginning of the season that it wouldn’t backfire, that we wouldn’t shut down as a program.
Experience was one of the major things that the New Mexico baseball team was lacking heading into the 2014 season. Now 25 games into the year, it appears the youthful Lobos are starting to mature.
Coaching can make a dramatic difference. That’s what New Mexico head coach Bob Davie is betting on with changes he made to his defensive staff.
Heading into 2014’s spring practice, UNM head football coach Bob Davie knows what issues his team faces. They’re the same problems that have plagued the New Mexico football team for the past two seasons: inexperience and defense.
The New Mexico softball team won its first Mountain West game Sunday with an 8-6 victory over San Diego State. The win followed losses to the Aztecs on Friday and Saturday.
Head coach Ray Birmingham thought it was necessary to pump up starting pitcher Josh Walker before Sunday’s series finale against San Jose State at Lobo Field.
New Mexico’s #UnfinishedBusiness remains incomplete. For the second straight year the Lobos exited early from the NCAA tournament after 58-53 second-round loss to Stanford in Friday’s South Region contest. It ends the Lobos’ season with a 27-7 record in Craig Neal’s first year as head coach.
Some call Stanford the “Harvard of the West” because of its reputation for high academic excellence, but New Mexico basketball fans hope that’s where the similarities end. The No. 7 seed Lobos open NCAA tournament play against the 10th-seeded Cardinal Friday at 11:40 a.m. MT in St. Louis, looking to avoid a repeat of last year’s stunning upset to Harvard.
sports@dailylobo.com @Liam_CE The New Mexico track and field team is accustomed to competing at a mile high above sea level. UNM sent four contestants to the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships at The Convention Center, a familiar place for each of the athletes.
“To win the conference was a big relief because as a coach you felt like you let them down a little bit not winning Saturday (March 8),” New Mexico coach Craig Neal said on Monday. “Now we start a new chapter, and our guys have been pretty resilient and played at a high level.” That chapter begins this week at the NCAA tournament.
Last season, New Mexico forward Cameron Bairstow didn’t know what it meant to be named to the Mountain West All-Tournament team. Now Bairstow knows fully well what it means to be the Mountain West Championships Tournament MVP. He won that award after the Lobos beat San Diego State 64-58 Saturday at the Thomas and Mack Center.
Over the last three years, but especially over the last three weeks, New Mexico and San Diego State have staked a claim as the premier rivalry in the Mountain West. Their season’s third meeting, this time for the tournament championship, didn’t disappoint. At the end, UNM cut down the nets at the Thomas & Mack Center for the third straight time.
New Mexico gets another crack at San Diego State for a Mountain West title. This time, it’ll be for the conference tournament crown. UNM, ranked No. 20 nationally, moved into the game following a narrow 70-67 victory over Boise State in Thursday night’s late semifinal. SDSU advanced following its win over UNLV.
LAS VEGAS — Whether it was man or zone, the Lobos have seen about every kind of defense an opponent can throw at them. So when Fresno State threw a full-court press over the course of Thursday night’s Mountain West Basketball quarterfinals at the Thomas & Mack Center, the Lobos knew what to do.
Improvement takes time with a young team. Developing through the growing pains has been a focal point for the New Mexico baseball team thus far this season. Following an 8-5 loss to Arizona State University (8-6), head coach Ray Birmingham said that his team has been taking strides in terms of development
No. 20 New Mexico earned its first victory of the Mountain West Championships with a 93-77 win over Fresno State. San Diego State, UNLV and Boise State also advanced to Friday’s semifinals
Fresno State’s Mountain West Basketball Championship first-round game against Air Force resembled its regular-season. The Bulldogs were down early but came back to advance. Fresno State completed a late-game rally after trailing for much of the game and captured a 61-59 victory over the Falcons Wednesday evening at the Thomas & Mack Center.
LAS VEGAS – While it may sting to lose the regular-season title on the season’s final day, the New Mexico men have an opportunity to pursue another conference crown at this week’s Mountain West Basketball Championships.
The season long theme of close losses continued for the New Mexico women’s basketball team at the Mountain West tournament on Monday. UNM guard Antiesha Brown missed a game-tying 3-pointer with two seconds left to give Utah State a 69-66 victory over the Lobos in the opening game of the Mountain West Championship.
SAN DIEGO — A monumental collapse dropped the New Mexico men’s basketball team into the No. 2 seed for next week’s Mountain West Basketball Championships. The Lobos let a 16-point lead slip away at Viejas Arena in San Diego on Saturday, and San Diego State rallied for a 51-48 victory in the regular-season finale.
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