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Lobo Jaedyn De La Cerda, right, shoots a three pointer while being guarded by Colorado State’s Jamie Bonnarens in March. (Roberto E. Rosales/ABQ Journal)
Jaedyn De La Cerda and Antonia Anderson decided the timing was right for a little offseason drama.
After officially informing UNM women’s basketball coach Mike Bradbury last week that they intended to return for another season, the two seniors decided to keep most everyone else in suspense until the proper time.
That time came Thursday – April Fool’s Day – when De La Cerda and Anderson released a video clip on their social media accounts.
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The UNM Lobos bench during the team’s Feb. 24 game at Air Force in Clune Arena. (Courtesy UNM Athletics)
Here are a few extra notes, stats, tweets, videos and whatever else I could empty out of the old notebook after Wednesday’s 62-55 Lobos loss at Air Force:
High tide, low tide Lobos
Even when they’ve shown glimmers of hope this season, they haven’t lasted long.
As Paul Weir noted in Wednesday’s postgame presser, it’s been a very difficult season to know for sure what the Lobos are going to be from game to game.
“I think that’s been a little bit of our season,” Weir said. “It’s kind of been the one step forward, two steps back, whether it’s a particular individual player that you really feel like is starting to break out, it might be a side of the ball offensively or defensively, it might be a particular phase of the game rebounding, free throw, shooting, 3-p