RALPH DAVIS NEW GIG: Former Lobo assistant coach Ralph Davis earlier this week was introduced as a new assistant coach at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. For the second year in a row, McCurdy found a way to get hot late in the season. Be sure to vote for your favorite athlete out of the ones listed below! 1 of 21 NBA player and former Connecticut basketball player Ray Allen, right, hugs WNBA and former Connecticut basketball player Sue Bird as former player Rebecca Lobo, left, watche, during at the . I wonder if he would have had a chance to play 4 years of D1 basketball under Steve Alford at UNM, then maybe he is #2 on the top 50 list behind Mel Daniels. Our program is as honest and clean as there is in college athletics.''. But now where are those seven players who were declared ineligible - Craig Gilbert, Larry Belin, Larry Hubbard, Andre Logan, Larry Tarrance, Paul Roby and Jerome Henderson? Here are the top five former Lobos who starred in Albuquerque before taking their talents to the professional ranks. Lobo started . LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) Of all the troubling video made public over a year of crisis at New Mexico State - from the brawl involving basketball players to the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old . All rights reserved. Toggle Notable former Lobo athletes and coaches subsection 6.1 Basketball. His block of Noah Hartsock vs BYU, and his short baseline jumper vs top 10 ranked SDSU in the final minute of the game played in the Pit were 2 monumental moments for that years 30-5 team. He will always be a teammate of ours. Prior to departing for TBT, the New Mexico Alumni will practice and train at The Pit and other Lobo Basketball facilities. Rebecca is one of the tallest sports analysts, which should come as no surprise given her background as a former WNBA player. 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With the dynamic PBA and scouting and improvement programs, the National Team is reviving past success. The team competed in Guanajuato, Mexico in August 1992. It kills me that so much good high school basketball will be right around the corner from me, but I also know just from being here for seven, eight weeks how much high school teams (dream of) the road to the Pit.. Norm Ellenberger's assistant, Manny Goldstein, was a major figure in arranging the fraudulent system. Nov. 2Gethro Muscadin, the former University of New Mexico Lobo basketball player who had been hospitalized since being in a single-vehicle crash 10 months ago in Kansas, died Monday night. I hope to be able to grow even more as a person and a player in coming years and represent everybody well.. / into a possible gambling scandal involving Norm Ellenberger and a former assistant coach, John Whisenant, but no indictments developed. His roommates raved about his cooking and Muscadin told the Journal he used to try and sneak protein powder into the oatmeal he would cook for his roommate Birima Seck so the 6-11, 190-pound center could put on some much needed weight. All deserving to be on the Top 50 Lobos list. University of New Mexico Hospital launching health care listening Hospital CEO Kate Becker says 'we really want to hear from our community about what their health needs are' in order to prioritize resources. KU coach Bill Self explained what he knew of the accident to the media a day after the crash occurred. In 1997, the WNBA was formed and enjoyed its inaugural season, and Lobo was assigned to the New York Liberty during the league's first player allocations on January 22, 1997. My mom was with me every day. Stay tuned! McAfee signed with Weatherford College in Texas before transferring for one year with the University of Louisiana Rajun Cajuns in the 2020-2021 season. 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After playing 12 games with the Lobos, he and the team announced he was leaving the program on Dec. 20 after playing just 12 games. Hardin was hard to stop defensively with some great moves down low. 2020 The Lair NM. March 1, 2003. The Philippines are slowly regaining the spotlight that once belonged to them: kings of Asian basketball. We are just devastated as a program. New Mexico basketball scores, news, schedule, players, stats, photos, rumors, depth charts on RealGM.com One of those courses was Fundamentals of Basketball. [4][5] Her brother Jason played basketball at Dartmouth College and her sister Rachel played basketball at Salem State College. 140-ranked player in the recruiting Class of 2020 by Rivals.com, played 33 minutes total in 12 games his freshman season at KU (2020-21). FILE - Former Davidson basketball player, coach, and Athletic Director, and former Virginia coach, Terry Holland, smiles during a ceremony to retire his jersey number 42 following an NCAA college basketball game between LaSalle and Davidson on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, in Davidson, N.C. Terry Holland, who elevated Virginia basketball to national prominence during 16 seasons as coach and later had . The seven newcomers who are part of the 2021 recruiting class include four guards Jamal Mashburn Jr., a transfer from Minnesota; Jaelen House, a transfer from Arizona State; Taryn Todd, a transfer from TCU; and K.J. . He attended KU and was born and raised in Chicago, as well as Lisle, Ill. Is KU a contender for a repeat NCAA basketball title? My overall impression of Greg Brown would have been a few hairs better had he not missed so many shots in the NCAA tournament game vs Virginia. And why is it on my car? It has some good info about some of the players. In her senior year, Lobo was the unanimous national player of the year, winning the 1995 Naismith College Player of the Year award, the Wade Trophy, the AP Player of the Year award, the USBWA Player of the Year award, the Honda Sports Award for basketball, and the WBCA Player of the Year award. [9] Lobo was named the 1995 Sportswoman of the Year (in the team category) by the Women's Sports Foundation. Read, rate and discuss on Football Alliance - the Ultimate Football Network This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. STATE TOURNAMENT: Though fans will be allowed in a limited capacity in the Pit this week for the state high school basketball tournament, and the court is quite literally across the hall from Pitinos new office in the Rudy Davalos practice facility, neither the new Lobos coach nor anyone on his staff will be allowed to sneak a peek at any of the action. A Mexican gray wolf in a crate after being captured at Ted Turner's Ladder Ranch near Hillsboro, New Mexico, Monday, November 21, 2022. They discuss current events, sports and family life. For the Lobos, he averaged 20.5 minutes a game. 6.5 Golf. The 22-year-old from Haiti who played at Kansas before transferring to UNM last season. Another was convicted of credit-card fraud. Though her minutes on the floor were few, Lobo shared in the gold medal. The donut shop has announced it has closed its South Valley and Northeast Heights locations. Growing up without a dad, only having mom, it was really hard. Here are the top five former Lobos who starred in Albuquerque before taking their talents to the professional ranks. She is currently awaiting extradition. But yesterday the bands were playing in The Pit, with New Mexico's new athletic regime as host. Lobo's championship streak with the national team in 1977 included a basketball crown in the Pesta Sukan league in Genting Highlands, Malaysia, as well as the Southeast Asian Games men's title in . [13] In 2002, she was traded to the Houston Comets in exchange for Houston's second-round selection (26th overall) in the 2002 WNBA draft. It's a stretch with Thomas I know, but he did move Albuquerque in high school and play for AHS his senior year. I feel Im here for a reason now: to be the best I can be., I am humble, friendly, open to anybody, grateful for this opportunity. With a BVM Sports account, submitting content to appear on our website is easier to keep track of and share. Former players have joined for Muscadin, the No. Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. The big news out of Lobo men's basketball on Wednesday was the program, for now, has a roster for the 2021-22 season that no longer exceeds the NCAA's maximum scholarship limit of 13. So sad. Flipboard. What is mud rain? He led the state in scoring in high school and was a fierce rebounder on King's 1964 NIT runnerup squad. The Enchantment enters the tournament the #8 seed and will take on the #9-seed Stillwater Stars in the teams first-round game on Saturday, July 17 at 7 p.m. CT (6 p.m. MT). 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According to an associate athletic director during the Norm Ellenberger regime, Ike Singer Jr., ''around 25 percent'' of the Lobo basketball players graduated. VYPE. Destiny Leann McAfee was booked Saturday into the Gregg County Jail on . 2) Opinions of fans older than me who watched the players from the 1960s (my memory of the players starts in about 1970). The top five seeds get first-round byes into the . The team won five games and lost two, but that left them in seventh place. Seven basketball players and three football players had been ruled . We all loved Gethro on his visit, Self said after the big man signed with KU. But not many other coaches would even dare to recruit some of the renegades Norm Ellenberger and Manny Goldstein had the nerve to identify as student-athletes, the renegades who inspired a T-shirt that read, ''I are a college student at UNM.''. The unraveling can be traced to an NMSU football game last Oct. 15 in which a handful of the school's basketball players got into a brawl with students from rival New Mexico. BOSTON, Mass. The current roster is comprised primarily of UNM alumni including: Being a head coach for The Enchantment New Mexico alumni team is an honor, former Lobo, NBA great and The Enchantment head coach Kenny Thomas said. SHARE Why this former BYU coach is dumbfounded by Cougars' lack of success in league tourney. Cleveland is as puzzled as anyone that the Cougars haven't won a conference tournament title since 2001. Hardin was a beast on the boards and had a nice shooting touch outside when they doubled-teamed him down low. . He also gets a negative mark for not seeing Lamont Long come open on the baseline and thus not passing him the ball on the game's final play vs Louisville. The school announced the hiring Tuesday, with Kitchens named to replace John Lilly after Lilly joined Frank Reich's staff with the NFL's Carolina Panthers. Student. John Bridgers, short but sturdy, was a defensive line coach for the 1958 Baltimore Colts that won the National Football League championship. Had Hobson not got injured and played his senior year at UNM, it would have been fun to see how the team would have done with him, Drew Gordon & Alex Kirk all playing together. Lobo sophomore Kurt Wegscheider defends Nevadas Grant Sherfield on Jan. 2 in Lubbock, Texas. Rest in peace Gethro ! https://www.nmnathletics.com/fls/26000/old_site/pdf/m-baskbl/mbb-mg-1011-sec-7.pdf?SPSID=616930&SPID=87115&DB_OEM_ID=26000.