HOUSTON, Texas In the battle of Patterson Brother vs Patterson brother on Tuesday night, Lobo junior Clay Patterson registered his first career 3-pointer against his brother’s team as the UNM men’s basketball team routed NAIA Our Lady of the Lake, 104-65. The Saints entered the game coming off of an upset over NCAA DI Texas State and drained 10 from behind the arc as a team, but they were no match for the Lobos’ 59.7 percent shooting from the floor.
With the win, UNM is now 2-0 on the season while the Saints, which competed in exhibition play Tuesday, remain 1-1.
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Lobos point guard Jeremiah Francis, left, and forward Bayron Matos, right, defend Rice Owl Chris Mullins (24) during Sunday’s game in Houston. (Photo courtesy Maria Lysaker for UNM Athletics)
Here are a few extra notes, quotes, stats, videos and whatever else I could empty out of the old notebook that didn’t fit into print after the Lobos’ 72-61 road win over Rice on Sunday in Houston:
They actually played!
There are 357 Division I men’s college basketball teams.
If you take away the eight in the Ivy League, which decided as a conference not to play this season due to COVID-19, there were just 26 left that had not played a game entering Sunday.
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The UNM Lobos men’s basketball team, from left, Jeremiah Francis (11), Rod Brown (5), Kurt Wegscheider (30), Emmanuel Kuac (4), Isaiah Marin (32) and Saquan Singleton (5) run during a practice at South Plains College on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020 in Levelland, Texas. UNM opens its season Sunday vs. host Rice in Houston. (UNM Athletics photo)
It’s finally here.
New Mexico men’s basketball, a team with a roster half full of guys who have never played a game in the cherry and silver and a coaching and support staff with four new faces as well, finally tips off the wild 2020-21 college basketball season on Sunday in Houston against the 4-0 Rice Owls.
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UNM Lobo senior Makuach Maluach is one of the few familiar faces fans will see on this season’s Lobos roster. UNM tips off the season Sunday in Houston against the Rice Owls. (Photo courtesy UNM Athletics)
In the rare pre-game Emptying the Notebook, here are a few notes, quotes, stats, videos, tweets, and whatever else I could empty out of the old notebook about this new-look Lobo hoops roster before its first game Sunday in Houston against the Rice Owls.
For starters
It’s been 283 days since the Lobos last played a college basketball game. A lot has changed.