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UNM Lobo forward Rod Brown grabs a rebound early in Sunday’s game against the Rice Owls at Tudor Fieldhouse in Houston. (Photo courtesy Maria Lysaker for UNM Athletics)
Here are some extra notes, quotes, tweets, stats and whatever else I could find in the old notebook that didn’t fit in print after Tuesday’s 104-65 Lobos win over NAIA school Our Lady of the Lake in Houston, Texas:
Bully ball
OK, so the opponents haven’t been the type of physical team that the Lobos will see soon in Mountain West play. Certainly not in the paint.
But the schedule is what it is and at this point UNM’s three newcomer forwards have been nothing short of dominant down low. Rod Brown (6-foot-7, 218-pounds), Bayron Matos (6-9, 215) and Valdir Manuel (6-10, 225) have done everything asked of them to help carry over the Lobo coaching staff’s primary point of emphasis from the unique offseason in which U
HOUSTON, Texas In the battle of Patterson Brother vs Patterson brother on Tuesday night, Lobo junior Clay Patterson registered his first career 3-pointer against his brother’s team as the UNM men’s basketball team routed NAIA Our Lady of the Lake, 104-65. The Saints entered the game coming off of an upset over NCAA DI Texas State and drained 10 from behind the arc as a team, but they were no match for the Lobos’ 59.7 percent shooting from the floor.
With the win, UNM is now 2-0 on the season while the Saints, which competed in exhibition play Tuesday, remain 1-1.
Hunter Greene
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The University of New Mexico men’s basketball team is set to play its second game of the season within just two days of its first with a contest against Our Lady of the Lake on Tuesday at 5 p.m. MT / 6 p.m. CT. The game will be a neutral contest that will take place at Rice University in Tudor Fieldhouse.
The Lobos won their first matchup of the season with a 72-61 victory over Rice on Sunday and enters the game 1-0. OLLU is 1-1 with its win coming in an exciting upset over NCAA DI opponent Texas State (61-58).
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UNM junior guard Clay Patterson, left, and younger brother and Our Lady of the Lake University freshman guard David Patterson, right, were both former state Gatorade Player of the Year winners at Rio Rancho High School. Tuesday, their college teams play each other in Houston. (Photos courtesy UNM Athletics and OLLU Sports Information Department)
Tudor Fieldhouse on the campus of Rice University in Houston is a long way from the backyard court brothers Clay and David Patterson grew up battling each other on in Rio Rancho.
Tuesday, it will have the feel of home.
In a highly improbably sequence of events, the UNM Lobos, for whom 21-year-old Clay Patterson is a junior backup point guard, signed up for three games in Houston. That includes Tuesday’s showdown with San Antonio-based NAIA program Our Lady of the Lake, where David Patterson is a starting freshman shooting guard.
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Lobos point guard Jeremiah Francis, left, and forward Bayron Matos, right, defend Rice Owl Chris Mullins (24) during Sunday’s game in Houston. (Photo courtesy Maria Lysaker for UNM Athletics)
Here are a few extra notes, quotes, stats, videos and whatever else I could empty out of the old notebook that didn’t fit into print after the Lobos’ 72-61 road win over Rice on Sunday in Houston:
They actually played!
There are 357 Division I men’s college basketball teams.
If you take away the eight in the Ivy League, which decided as a conference not to play this season due to COVID-19, there were just 26 left that had not played a game entering Sunday.