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Lobo center Bayron Matos wins the jump ball against Wyoming’s Graham Ike in Friday’s game at Clune Arena at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. (Courtesy UNM Athletics)
Here are some extra notes, quotes, stats, analysis and whatever else I could empty out of the old notebook after Friday’s 79-67 Lobos loss to Wyoming in a game played at the U.S. Air Force Academy:
A big problem?
There’s not much point in harping on the limitations of this season’s team.
The sample size has grown large enough that we known by now they are 1-13 in Mountain West play for a reason.
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Makuach Maluach (10), shown in action vs. Colorado State on March 2, 2019. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
In Episode 39, I have a brief, but insightful conversation with Lobo wing Makuach Maluach.
Due to the state of New Mexico’s public health order, the senior from Australia is about to play his “Senior Night” game at the U.S. Air Force Academy for the Lobos final “home” game of the season 400 miles north of the Pit, where he quietly etched his name deep into Lobo record books.
We talk about his future (will he come back with the NCAA not counting this season against player eligibility?), the past (the bond he formed with teammates in that 2017-18 freshman season), the time he asked Paul Weir on a recruiting call to call back because he was busy working, and a lot more.
Feb. 19—There were 16 minutes, 32 seconds showing on the Pit clock in the first half of the first game of the Paul Weir era on Nov. 11, 2017. In what was essentially a warm-up game against NAIA Northern New Mexico — an introduction of sorts for Lobo fans to the program's new coach and a roster of so many new players after a mass exodus the previous spring — one of the less heralded of those .
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