Feb. 13, 2010
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Team
New Mexico wins its 9th straight game with a 68-65 overtime victory at Utah…the Lobos improve to 23-3 overall and 9-2 in the Mountain West Conference…the Lobos remain one-half game ahead of BYU for 1st place in the MWC…UNM was picked to finish 5th in the MWC preseason poll
The Lobos won despite shooting a season-low 32.4% (12-37) in the 2nd half…UNM did have a 45-36 rebounding edge, 16-6 on the offensive glass
The Lobos have won 7 straight overtime games and are 7-2 under head coach Steve Alford
Alford becomes the first New Mexico head coach to beat Utah twice in Salt Lake City…he is 2-1…going into tonight’s game, the Lobos were 6-52 all-time against the Utes in Salt Lake since the first game here in 1952
The Lobos have won 23 of their first 26 games for only the 3rd in school history: 23-3 in 1967-68 and 23-3 in 1977-78
New Mexico has tied single-season school records for:
road wins in a season (8-2)
wins away from Albuquerque (9-2), which includes neutral sites
consecutive conference road wins (5)
New Mexico has won 9 straight conference games for only the 2nd time in school history…the 1977-78 Western Athletic Conference champs started 10-0
Head coach Steve Alford is 69-24 in his tenure at New Mexico, 22-15 on the road and 14-8 in MWC road games
Prior to Steve Alford’s arrival at UNM, it took the Lobos 9 seasons and 94 games to win 22 road games…UNM was 22-72 from 1999-2007
UNM has used the same starting lineup in all 26 games this season
UNM has made at least one 3-pointer in 614 straight games…the last time it didn’t was Jan. 3, 1991, missing on 8 attempts against Colorado State
New Mexico is 62-142 (43.7%) from 3-point the past 7 games, an average of 8.9 treys a game…that comes after making just 27% the previous 8 games when it averaged 4.6 3s a game
Individual
Junior Darington Hobson
came within 2 points of becoming the 2nd Lobo to post a triple-double…he had 8 points (1-10 FGs), 10 rebounds and a career-high 11 assists…Luc Longley (1988-91) had a pair of triple-doubles in his career, one with pts-reb-assists and another with pts-reb-blocks
3rd straight double-double and 8th of the season
72 points (23-45 FGs, 7-9 3s, 19-23 FTs), 43 rebounds, 27 assists and 9 steals the past 4 games, averages of 18 ppg, 10.8 rpg and 6.8 apg
Junior Dairese Gary
team-high 19 points, 14 coming in the 2nd half…49 points the past 3 games, 37 coming after halftime
scored 9 of UNM’s 12 points during one stretch in the second half
started his 88th straight game
UNM is 19-2 all-time when he has 5 or more assists
Senior Roman Martinez
15 points on 5-8 from 3-point…most 3-pointers since 8 at San Diego on Dec. 9
Lobos are 35-6 all-time when he plays more than 30 minutes
passed Royce Olney (1995-98) for 7th place all-time with 177 career 3-pointers
6 rebounds, giving him 583 for his career and moving ahead of Ron Sanford (1967-69) for 13th place all-time at UNM
Sophomore F A.J. Hardeman
9 points and a career-high 12 rebounds
Sophomore F Will Brown
tied a career-high with 3 blocks