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UNM’s LaTora Duff, right, drives against Colorado State’s Cali Clark during last week’s series at the Pit. Duff and the top-seeded Lobos will face Air Force in Monday’s MWC tournament. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
Tough to figure? You bet.
One of the most unpredictable regular seasons in Mountain West women’s basketball history feels like a fitting pretext for this week’s annual postseason conference tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The University of New Mexico Lobos will open Monday’s MWC tournament quarterfinals as a No. 1 seed nobody saw coming, tipping off against an Air Force team that upset the Lobos less than two weeks ago.
LAS VEGAS, Nev.– The last piece has been figured out. The Lobos knew the when and the where, but didn’t know who they would be facing in their first game at the Mountain West Tournament. UNM will face the Air Force Falcons in the quarterfinal of the 2021 Air Force Reserve Mountain West Basketball Championships on Monday at 1 p.m. MT/ 12 p.m. PT.
For the first time since 2004-05, The University of New Mexico Lobos enter the Mountain West Tournament as the No. 1 seed after sweeping Colorado State to win the regular season title. While UNM had previously won two MW regular season championships, it is the first time that the Lobos have won it outright as the 2003-04 and 2004-05 titles were split with Utah.
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A shorthanded UNM men’s basketball squad fell to Colorado State Wednesday night in Fort Collins, Colo. (UNM Athletics)
With little left to play for but pride, the Lobos who were in Fort Collins, Colo., on Wednesday night did nothing to hang their heads about.
Wrapping up a historically bad regular season in the standings one in which fourth-year head coach Paul Weir announced his resignation on Friday a UNM men’s basketball roster playing with just six scholarship players and four walk-ons managed to post the team’s second-highest point total of the season against a Division I opponent in an 87-73 loss to NCAA Tournament hopeful Colorado State in Moby Arena.