NEW MEXICO RUMORS & GOSSIP

First year assistant coach Wyking Jones will see a lot of familiar faces on Saturday night when the Cards take on the New Mexico Lobos in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. Just a year ago, Jones was a member of Steve Alford’s staff in Albuquerque. Jones was an assistant coach and top recruiter for the Lobos from 2009-2011. In all honesty, Wyking Jones is somewhat responsible...

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Tony Snell made four 3-pointers in the first half and finished with 14 points, and Drew Gordon had 12 points and 12 rebounds as New Mexico overpowered top-seeded and No. 18 San Diego State 68-59 to win the Mountain West Conference tournament championship on Saturday night. Coach Steve Alford's Lobos (27-6) are headed to the NCAA tournament for the second time in three seasons...

The New Mexico Lobos defeated the UNLV Running Rebels is a very entertaining semifinal game in the Mountain West. The teams had split the two regular season games largely due to UNLV's solid defense. In their January win over the Lobos, UNLV held New Mexico to just 0.98 points per possession. And even when UNLV lost, they still limited the Lobos to 1.01 points per possession...

Sophomore Kendall Williams and junior transfer Demetrius Walker hit every one of their free throws in the final minute-and-a-half of Friday night’s UNM-UNLV Men’s Mountain West Conference Tournament semifinal in Las Vegas. Rebel guard Anthony Marshall did not. And that was the edge as the second-seeded Lobos defeated three-seed UNLV 72-67 to advance to the MWC title game Saturday afternoon.

Drew Gordon had 19 points and 13 rebounds for New Mexico, which raced back from deficits of 12-0 and 17-4 to stun No. 20 UNLV 72-67 in the Runnin' Rebels' home arena in the Mountain West Conference semifinals Friday night. The Lobos (26-6) will play No. 18 San Diego State in the championship game Saturday night. The Lobos and Aztecs shared the regular-season title, with...

The New Mexico Lobos are having a terrific season and if they are looking to be March bound, the Lobos certainly gave themselves a big win on their tournament resume with 65-45 win at home. New Mexico was led by Drew Gordon. Gordon had a monster game against the Rebels. He scored 27 points and grabbed 20 rebounds as well and helped New Mexico outscore UNLV 39-18 in the second half...

New Mexico was hoping for a big game from Drew Gordon in the post against No. 11 UNLV on Saturday. What he delivered far exceeded the Lobos' expectations. Gordon scored a career-high 27 points and grabbed 20 rebounds in New Mexico's dominating 65-45 victory, its second in 48 hours over a ranked team. ''Twenty-seven and 20 against not just a team but against a top...

Trailing No. 11 UNLV at halftime on Saturday, the UNM men’s basketball team turned up its vaunted defense in the second half and won going away 65-45 against the Rebels before a sold out crowd at The Pit and a regional audience on CBS-TV. The Lobos held Nevada-Las Vegas to 4-of-17 shooting in the second half while senior Drew Gordon exploded for a double-double with 27 points and 20 rebounds.

Drew Gordon had 18 points and nine rebounds Saturday as New Mexico won its 10th game in a row, beating Saint Louis 64-60. Brian Conklin had 20 points and nine rebounds for the Billikens (12-2), whose six-game winning streak came to an end. Saint Louis moved out to a 21-14 lead before the Lobos (12-2) came storming back on a 12-2 run that was fueled by five consecutive trips to...

The New Mexico Lobos set the bar over the last few years for the worst football in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Mike Locksley went 2-26 over the two and a half years that he was at the helm of the Lobos. Locksley had it rough on and off the field while he was at New Mexico. Physical altercations with coaches, minors getting DWIs in his car, it wasn't good. When New Mexico...

Former Notre Dame head coach and college football analyst Bob Davie will be named the new head coach of the New Mexico Lobos, according to espn.com’s Joe Schad. The position will mark the first time Davie has coached football in the collegiate ranks since he was released by Notre Dame ten years ago in 2001. Raised in Western Pennsylvania, Davie attended Youngstown State University...

It took them most of the 2011 regular season, but the New Mexico Lobos have completed the improbable climb to the top of the FOX Soccer NCAA Top 25. They may play in the tiny Mountain Pacific Conference and have not played as strong a schedule as the other teams around them at the top of the rankings, but New Mexico's standing as the lone unbeaten team in the nation became even...

College basketball is right around the corner. Games will be starting in a month or so, and practices are starting soon. College basketball might be the only game in town, which will give even more attention to the college game. I can’t wait for this upcoming season. Here at Roundballchat I will release my top 100 teams for the 2011-12 college basketball season. I will start at...