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NEW MEXICO BASKETBALL POSTGAME NOTES

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Game 1 • New Mexico vs. South Carolina State

Jim Thorpe Classic

Friday, November 18, 2005

The Pit/Bob King Court • Albuquerque, N.M.

Final Score: New Mexico 56, South Carolina State 47

Team Notes

• The Lobos have won 10 straight home games, 19 of their last 20 and 31 of the last 34

• With 7:17 left in the 1st half, UNM:

  • –led 25-10

    –was shooting 61.5% (8-13) from the floor

    –was shooting 57% (4-7) from 3-point

• After the 7:17 mark of the 1st half, UNM:

  • –scored 31 points

    –shot 25% (7-28) from the floor

    –shot 6.7% (1-15) from 3-point

• UNM led 25-10 after Mark Walters hit a 3-pointer with 7:17 remaining in the first half…the Lobos then missed 8 straight shots and committed 2 turnovers before Walters banked in a shot with 1.2 seconds left before halftime…SCSU closed the first half with a 10-2 run

• The Lobos got 3 points off the bench, a 3-pointer from Joel Box in the first half

• UNM scored its fewest points in a season opener since a 54-50 loss to Santa Clara in the 1983 Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage

• The Lobos scored their fewest points in a home opener since a 56-47 victory over Oregon on Dec. 8, 1961

Individual Notes – New Mexico

Sophomore Blake Harden

• played a career-high 25 minutes and scored a career-high 8 points

• averaged 4.9 minutes in 22 games last year

Senior Mark Walters

• scored 20 points in a game for the 4th time in his career