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Here are some notes, quotes, odds & ends and whatever else I could empty out of the old notebook after UNM's 101-94 win over NMSU on Tuesday in Las Cruces.
They said the right things. They did. But as a pair of UNM men s basketball players, followed by their first-year coach, fielded questions in the Pit media r.
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Wyoming coach Larry Shyatt speaks with his players during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game at the Mountain West Conference men’s tournament Wednesday, March 9, 2016, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Shyatt, also a former UNM assistant, applauds the hire of Richard Pitino. (AP Photo/David Becker)
My first choice, John Wooden (proven winner), died in 2010. Details, details.
My second choice, Gregg Popovich, apparently couldn’t be pried away from the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs. Warm and fuzzy with the media as he is, Pop would have been fun to cover.
My third choice, me, never got a call back from athletic director Eddie Nuñez. His and the program’s loss. My personal memories of the peach basket-and-ladder days could have proved invaluable.