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UNM Lobo Makuach Maluach drives while being defended by Boise State’s Emmanuel Akot during Monday’s game in Boise, Idaho. (Courtesy Boise State Athletics)
Here are some extra notes, quotes, tweets, analysis, videos and whatever other odds & ends I could empty out of the old notebook after the UNM Lobos’ 77-53 road loss at Boise State on Monday night in Boise, Idaho:
Maluach watch
I’m not going make featuring Makuach Maluach a regular thing in this ETN column, though I did last week when he was chasing 1,000 points and now, after Monday’s blowout loss for the Lobos, he was really the only player worthy of breaking down a little more after the game.
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Lobos senior wing Makuach Maluach on Thursday became the 35th player to score 1,000 points in a UNM uniform. (Photo courtesy Kevin Richardson/LeTourneau University)
Here are a few notes, quotes, stats, videos and other odds & ends I emptied out of the old notebook after the Lobos’ 90-58 win over Division III LeTourneau on Thursday in Houston:
Welcome to the club
Sitting on 999 points entering Thursday’s game, Lobo senior Makuach Maluach didn’t waste much time joining that 1,000 point club once the ball was tipped.
Appropriate for the theme of the game, the 6-foot-5 wing hit the milestone bucket after first grabbing an offensive rebound (UNM had 32 of them) on the game’s opening possession leading to an easy layup for points 1,000 and 1,0001 to become the 35th player to score 1,000 points in a Lobos jersey.
HOUSTON, Texas The University of New Mexico men’s basketball team outrebounded the LeTourneau YellowJackets 79-32 on Thursday, setting a new program record for rebounds in a game and improving to 3-0 on the season. UNM claimed a 90-58 final with senior Makuach Maluach and redshirt-freshman Bayron Matos leading the Lobos with double-doubles on the day.
The 79 rebounds breaks the UNM program-record 78 that was set against Cal State-Los Angeles on Dec. 15, 1962.
Maluach scored his 1,000th career point with the first bucket of the game at the 19:40 mark. He went on to register his fourth career double-double with 15 points and a team-high 12 rebounds. The double-double marks his second of the season, as well as his third straight double-figure scoring game.
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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.