Feb. 20, 2010
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Team
New Mexico wins its 11th straight game with a 59-56 triumph over Air Force…the Lobos, who started 0-2 in the Mountain West Conference and were picked to finish 5th in the preseason poll, improve to 25-3 overall and 11-2 in the MWC…UNM maintains its lead over BYU for 1st place in the league
The 59 points is a season-low for UNM, who trailed 54-51 with 2:51 remaining and 56-55 with 26 seconds to go…junior Darington Hobson’s lay-in off a Dariese Gary drive and feed gave the Lobos a 57-56 advantage with 16 seconds left
New Mexico has set a school record by winning 11 straight conference games…the 1977-78 Western Athletic Conference champion Lobos held the previous mark when they started 10-0
The 11 straight conference wins also ties a Mountain West Conference record…Utah won 11 in a row during the 2004-05 conference season
The Lobos have won 25 of their first 28 games (25-3) for the 1st time in 107 seasons of basketball
The 25 wins ties for the 3rd-most in school history…the school record is 28 in 1995-96 (28-5)
New Mexico had its 4th straight sellout of 14,586 and its 8th capacity crowd of the season
UNM is 27-2 against Air Force in The Pit
The Lobos are 25-1 in their last 26 home games, and 48-5 under head coach Steve Alford
Alford is 71-24 in his 3rd year at New Mexico
The Lobos have won 40 consecutive games when holding the opponent to less than 60 points, 33-0 under current head coach Steve Alford…the last loss was 51-46 at Air Force on Feb. 22, 2006
UNM is 21-0 this season when leading at halftime
UNM has used the same starting lineup in all 28 games this season
UNM has made at least one 3-pointer in 616 straight games…the last time it didn’t was Jan. 3, 1991, missing on 8 attempts against Colorado State
Individual
Junior G Darington Hobson
team high for points (17) and rebounds (8)…also tied for team lead with 5 assists
109 points (37-71 FGs, 8-14 3s, 27-33 FTs), 61 rebounds and 38 assists the past 6 games, averages of 18.2 ppg, 10.2 rpg and 6.3 apg
still on track to become the 1st player in Lobo history to lead the team in scoring, rebounding and assists in a season
Senior F Roman Martinez
10 points, 5 rebounds and 2 steals in 31 minutes
Lobos are 36-6 in Martinez’s career when he plays more than 30 minutes
9 points from passing former teammate Chad Toppert (1,067 points) for 23rd place on UNM’s career scoring list…Martinez has 1,059 points
5 rebounds from 600 in his career
Junior G Dairese Gary
started his 90th straight game
7 points, 6 coming in the second half, including 2 FTs with 2.5 seconds remaining that provided the 59-56 final
61 points the past 5 games, 45 coming after halftime
5 assists; the Lobos are 20-2 all-time when he has 5 or more in a game