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The Lobo basketball team during a game last week in Rice. The Lobos will now head back to Texas, where they’ve relocated this season to practice and play. (Courtesy photo)
Here are some notes, quotes, stats, videos, analysis, odds & ends and whatever else I managed to empty out of the old notebook after Wednesday night’s 89-52 Lobos loss to the Boise State Broncos in Boise, Idaho:
Get back on that bus
At the top of my game story Wednesday night, I used a small piece of a minute-long Paul Weir answer to a question about where his team goes from here figuratively and literally.
Mastodons can t overcome Vikings, Hodge
JUSTIN A. COHN | The Journal Gazette
The Purdue Fort Wayne men’s basketball team was ecstatic to be back on the court over the weekend, not surprising after seven games had been scrapped and a last-minute change to the schedule put Cleveland State at the Gates Center for two games.
Once the Mastodons break down film of Sunday’s 89-80 loss to Cleveland State, one in which PFW was dominated by a relatively unknown player, but able to scrap its way back from 34 points down in the second half, the Mastodons will likely hammer home the idea that just playing isn’t enough – they’ve got to play better, even in these unpredictable times.