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Frank Mercogliano
COLLEGE STATION, Texas The University of New Mexico refused to go quietly into the night. The Lobos didn’t survive, but the served notice that they were in the NCAA Tournament for a reason, and the squad gave the No. 8 team in the nation all it could handle. The Lobos picked up their first NCAA Tournament point since 1998 and stayed right with the No. 8 Texas A&M Aggies before falling 4-1. UNM ended its season at 8-10 overall, and the squad went 0-6 against nationally-ranked opponents.
The Lobos had their moments against Texas A&M, and weren’t all that far from a total shocker. Well a shocker to the rest of the tennis world, but for UNM, which lost 4-3 to a pair of ranked opponents and 4-2 to three others with all five of those potentially wins for UNM, it would have been a little justification.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The University of New Mexico makes its return into the NCAA Tournament with a 1 p.m. Mountain Time match with No. 8 overall and eighth-seeded Texas A&M. The Lobos, winners of the Mountain West for a second straight season, will take on a team with national championship aspirations.
If there is an unseeded team that could dash those Aggie hopes, it would be UNM.
The Lobos enter the NCAA Tournament having won six of the last seven, including a season-ending 4-1 win over Air Force that clinched a spot in the big dance. UNM’s overall record is a very deceiving 8-9. Five of those losses came to nationally-ranked teams, and all of those were close, with UNM losing 4-3 to Oregon and Arizona State and 4-2 to Arizona, Texas Tech and Denver in which UNM was leading in the lone non-decided match.