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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.
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Hunter Greene
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The long-awaited start to the 2020-21 University of New Mexico men’s basketball season is finally over as the Lobos are set to take on the Rice Owls on Sunday, Dec. 13 at 1 p.m. MT in Houston, Texas.
Rice enters Sunday’s game 4-0 on the season with all four games resulting in double-digit victories for the Owls.
Sunday’s game marks the first time since the 1992-93 season that the Lobos have started their season in December. The game will also be just the second time UNM has opened on the road in the last 12 seasons. In 2018-19, the Lobos opened at CSUN and prior to that, the last time UNM opened somewhere other than The Pit was 2007-08.