ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The University of New Mexico makes its return into the NCAA Tournament with a 1 p.m. Mountain Time match with No. 8 overall and eighth-seeded Texas A&M. The Lobos, winners of the Mountain West for a second straight season, will take on a team with national championship aspirations.
If there is an unseeded team that could dash those Aggie hopes, it would be UNM.
The Lobos enter the NCAA Tournament having won six of the last seven, including a season-ending 4-1 win over Air Force that clinched a spot in the big dance. UNM’s overall record is a very deceiving 8-9. Five of those losses came to nationally-ranked teams, and all of those were close, with UNM losing 4-3 to Oregon and Arizona State and 4-2 to Arizona, Texas Tech and Denver in which UNM was leading in the lone non-decided match.