I support them all in their next destination, wherever it is.. In the months prior to the Lobogate disclosures late in 1979, one of those players was convicted of misappropriating city funds. Ervin was known for shooting from outside the arc and played for teams such as Shell Turbo Chargers, Barangay Ginebra Kings, the Air21 Express, and Alaska Aces. 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.. So sad. As of Tuesday evening, there was no word on potential memorial services. He UNM to Madison Square Garden where the Lobos were edged 65-63 by eventual champion Virginia Tech in the 1973 NIT quarterfinals despite his 22 points in that game. PG- Greg Brown. 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? WALK-ONS MOVE ON: Two Lobo walk-ons in the past week have made their transfer plans known. A former university official describes the play of one of New Mexico's stars as having been "atrocious," adding that there was no explanation why the player was "so bad." The Feb. 23, 1977 game with Utah at Salt Lake City, during which Ellenberger ordered the favored Lobos into a 10-minute slowdown and which they lost 94-84. Read, rate and discuss on Football Alliance - the Ultimate Football Network 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. ''I don't know where they are,'' John Bridgers said. Inquiries also were made by the F.B.I. He was the seventh overall pick in the 2004 PBA Draft by the Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs. Rebecca is one of the tallest sports analysts, which should come as no surprise given her background as a former WNBA player. The donut shop has announced it has closed its South Valley and Northeast Heights locations. Our program is as honest and clean as there is in college athletics.''. by Frank Mercogliano. Muscadins passing was confirmed in a Twitter post by the official Lobo Basketball account. Regarding Darington Hobson, I rate him very high for the following reasons. The big news out of Lobo mens basketball on Wednesday was the program, for now, has a roster for the 2021-22 season that no longer exceeds the NCAAs maximum scholarship limit of 13. He also does local television commercials and hosts tours. Former WNBA basketball player and olympian Rebecca Lobo is seen analyzing the game between UConn and UCLA in a semifinal for the Albany Regional of the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship at the Times Union Center on Friday, March 29, 2019 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union) Lori Van Buren / Albany Times Union Show More Show Less 3 of 10 Soon after he declared for the NFL Draft. In my rankings from 10 years ago, I had him #22. 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. 16The last Lobo men's basketball game played in the Pit was Feb. 29, 2020. Anyone can read what you share. De-extinction is a, Roundhouse Roundup: Paramilitary rules, youth parole, Rio Bravo Park cleanup will take longer than expected, More from KRQE NEWS 13 - Breaking News, Albuquerque News, New Mexico News, Weather, and Videos, Gun safety bill passes Senate, faces one more hurdle, Restaurants still struggling to recover from COVID, Roswell PD: Woman steals, drives wrong-way to get, State basketball tournament: Girls first round recap, BCSO: Kids were living in dirty home containing drugs, Local casino hosts National Fiery Foods & BBQ Show, Victims identified in ABQ neighborhood murder suicide, Bear found in Red River dumpster on way to recovery, Elderly man who killed sister takes plea deal, Whats happening around New Mexico Feb. 24 Mar. into a possible gambling scandal involving Norm Ellenberger and a former assistant coach, John Whisenant, but no indictments developed. He had been unresponsive since the car accident last December. For the fourth year in a row, TBT games will feature the Elam Ending, the end-of-game format adopted by the NBA All-Star game for the past two years that eliminates the game clock after a certain point and features teams playing to a Target Score. Pitino also noted that while senior wing Makuach Maluach still has not made a final announcement about his future (Will he leave UNM to pursue his professional career or utilize the extra year of eligibility the NCAA is allowing due to the unusual COVID-related circumstances of the 2020-21 season?) Lobo was named to the USA U18 team (then called the Junior World Championship Qualifying Team) in 1992. The 22-year-old from Haiti who played at Kansas before transferring to UNM last season. 1 of 4. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. But eventually that college career came to an end and it . Meet Pat Mora", "SPORTS PEOPLE: BASKETBALL;Lobo Receives Another Award", "Women's Basketball 1995 National Championship Team to be Recognized as "Huskies of Honor", "Second Women's Junior World Championship Qualifying Team -- 1992", "Third FIBA Women's U19/Junior World Championship -- 1993", "PRO BASKETBALL; Torn Ligament Ends Lobo's Season Early", "Rebecca Lobo to help celebrate Connecticut Sun's 15th anniversary", "Lobo Named Recipient of NCAA Silver Anniversary Award", "Mike Anthony: Rebecca Lobo back at center of UConn women's basketball world she helped create as her No. A down year for UCONN now with five losses on the season . The locker room was very very very somber today. The first season the Liberty fell to the Houston Comets in the WNBA Finals. In a podcast with Zach Schumaker of Schuz Views, Muscadin said he wished to make the folks back in Republic of Haiti proud. I'm the villain who won't rehire Robin Hood. 24 Texas A&M over No. Patrick Ewing is a Jamaican-American former basketball player who played for popular NBA teams like New York Knicks and Seattle SuperSonics. Cleveland is as puzzled as anyone that the Cougars haven't won a conference tournament title since 2001. So young. First team to the Target Score, wins. Published: Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 at 6:09PMUpdated: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 at 12:25AM. was convinced that we've done everything we could to straighten the program out. ''None were put off scholarship if they wanted to stay, but most of 'em drifted away.''. Posted : February 28, 2023 9:44 pm. Muscadin, a 6-foot-10 native of Gonaives, Haiti, who played in 11 games at Kansas in 2020-21, joined the New Mexico Lobos via the NCAA transfer portal. See the article in its original context from. Jun. KRQE NEWS 13 - Breaking News, Albuquerque News, New Mexico News, Weather, and Videos. He gets a positive mark from me for his outstanding 1st half defensive performance against Allen Iverson in an NCAA tournament game vs Georgetown. Prior to going to Florida State, he had been Baylor's athletic director. Though a newcomer on the team a year ago, Muscadin quickly made his presence felt with teammates, those around the program and often cracked jokes with local media at practices and in interviews. Willie Howard remains a top 30 player so no change there. Stay connected with BVM Sports: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram, {"rules": {"password": "required", "password_confirm": {"equalTo": "#registerPassword"}}}. The donut shop has announced it has closed its South Valley and Northeast Heights locations. John Bridgers, formerly the athletic director at Florida State, was hired late in 1979 after the Lobogate scandal surfaced. Interesting list, but I'd include two other players into the elite tier and add a few other players to the Top 50 that were omitted: Both Hunter Greene and Bernard Hardin should be ranked among the top players at UNM ever. Lobos is Spanish for the timber wolves in the Sandia Mountains, which hover over this desert pancake of a city like a side order of sausage. . Regarding the earlier comment about Makuach: To avoid recency bias, I generally dont place players in a top 50 or honorable mention list until they have been gone from UNM for at least 5 years. Lobo averaged 6.8 points per game during the event. I didnt pick up, Self explained, because I didnt have my phone with me. In a story Friday in an Albuquerque newspaper, he assessed Lobogate by saying: ''We broke some N.C.A.A. The chance to link up with the current generation of Lobo basketball was also important for the alumni. On July 11, 2021 at 6:00 p.m., the alumni team will participate in an exhibition game in University Arena The Pit against other notable Lobo alumni. NCAA had still not expanded their tournament. Lobo coaches and players, including some who shared an apartment with Muscadin at Lobo Village until he left the team in December, shared their thoughts on the passing if their friend n social media accounts, posting photos and videos of him. I have a couple of holes where I was out of the country or not close enough in the US to keep track in the pre-internet age:-(. Two teams will advance from each of TBTs four regionals to compete in Championship Weekend in Dayton, Ohio at UD Arena. That PDF linked at the start does have some interesting info. Destiny Leann McAfee was booked Saturday into the Gregg County Jail on . [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. [22][23], At the induction ceremony, Lobo was introduced by her college coach, Geno Auriemma who praised her for her "impact on the court and off the court" as "one of the founders [of the WNBA]", and "as a representative of our university, [and] as a member of the board of trustees".[24]. Lobo basketball fans will remember Kendall Williams from any number of Lobo highlights throughout his college career. New Mexico and ABQ News, Sports, Business and more, By Geoff Grammer / Journal Staff Writer For me, I'd remove Olney and Hobson from the most elite tier and replace them with Greene and Hardin. The smiles ! #heartbroken #unbreakablefamily, was the Twitter post from his AAU coach Vonzell Thomas in Texas, who Muscadin lived with before going to college. Copyright 2023 The University of New Mexico. The University of New Mexico's 50 greatest Men's Lobo basketball players through 2020 1) Mel Daniels PF 65-67. 6.5 Golf. Muscadin started playing basketball when he was 15 and moved to the U.S. when he was 16. Norm Ellenberger's assistant, Manny Goldstein, was a major figure in arranging the fraudulent system. All rights reserved. Kitchens spent 16 seasons in the NFL . I am looking forward to building something with this group of guys.. 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. She was born in Connecticut and played high school basketball. For now, the Lobos have six returning scholarship players in guards Jeremiah Francis, Javonte Johnson and Saquan Singleton; and three forwards in Emmanuel Kuac, Rod Brown and Valdir Manuel. Jenkins, a transfer from Kilgore (Junior) College one wing Jamel King, a high school recruit from Bella Vista Prep School in Scottsdale, Ariz. and two forwards Jay Allen-Tovar, a transfer from Salt Lake Community College; and Gethro Muscadin, a transfer from Kansas. Lobo was named the Women's Sports Foundation's Sportswoman of the Year (team category) in 1995. Lobo, at 6'4", played the center position for much of her career. Davis had been in college basketball in New Mexico for more than a decade. He joined the Lobos in 2018 as video coordinator before bumping up a year later to Director of Operations then this past season as assistant coach. To some extent, that's true. Pitino noted: I was very close to Gethro off the court. Its traumatic. I recently came across the following link. 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. Rebecca Rose Lobo-Rushin (born October 6, 1973) is an American television basketball analyst and former women's basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 to 2003. ''The thing is,'' he said, ''99 percent of these recruiting violations don't help you win anyway. Rebecca Lobo, shown in 2019, will be on the call for the UConn-Tennessee game Thursday night on ESPN. Hey thanks lavida, and yes I'm interested in seeing how others would adjust the order. 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. The team competed in Guanajuato, Mexico in August 1992. A call from his former coach . Bad feet kept him out of the NBA. 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. They also broke some laws. Muscadin, the No. 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 . [2] Her father is of Cuban descent, while her mother was of German and Irish heritage. On Dec. 21, 2021, it was announced Muscadin had left New Mexicos program via mutual decision of Muscadin and Lobos coach Richard Pitino. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. I would agree with almost all 50 but change the order somewhat. And why is it on my car? 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. 7 See also. 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. Get the Android Weather app from Google Play, Taylor scores 28, leads No. We are just praying for him we really are. [8] She was a member of the inaugural class of inductees to the University of Connecticut women's basketball "Huskies of Honor" recognition program. Then the accident I guess occurred pretty soon after that., New Mexico coach Pitino said on his radio show in the wake of the accident that left Muscadin in a coma: We are devastated as a program. [3] Lobo was raised a Catholic. Former WNBA basketball player and olympian Rebecca Lobo is seen analyzing the game between UConn and UCLA in a semifinal for the Albany Regional of the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship at the Times Union Center on Friday, March . Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Lobo played college basketball at the University of Connecticut, where she was a member of the team that won the 1995 national . [9] Lobo was named the 1995 Sportswoman of the Year (in the team category) by the Women's Sports Foundation. Danilo Amat, former mayor of Dolores in Quezon, was gunned down in San Pablo City, Laguna on July 22, 2022, according to an ABS-CBN . Lobo sophomore Kurt Wegscheider defends Nevadas Grant Sherfield on Jan. 2 in Lubbock, Texas. At 5-11, the season looked lost. And in almost a silent surrender to the shame that permeates so much of college athletics, the Final Four gathered here in the cathedral of that religion. But once districts came around, McCurdy found a team identity, and learned how to play to everyone's strengths on the team. The Lobo community is saddened today by the passing of former New Mexico basketball player Gethro Muscadin. The trust you gave to me and my family !! I had both him and Larry Belen written on my paper as a player just outside the top 50, but didn't list them above so as not to make the list too long. Former players have joined for Lobo started . 3) Kenny Thomas PF 96-99 4) Danny Granger SF 04-05 SF-Mike Winters. 2-Rob Robbins. He led the state in scoring in high school and was a fierce rebounder on King's 1964 NIT runnerup squad. [14], Lobo was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2010. KU coach Bill Self explained what he knew of the accident to the media a day after the crash occurred. 50 retired", "Lobo: I'm just 1st of many Huskies heading to Hall", "The Home Team: Of Mothers, Daughters, and American Champions (9781568361994): Ruth Ann Lobo, Ruthann Lobo, Rebecca Lobo: Books", "Where are they now? In 1996, Lobo and her late mother, Ruth Ann Lobo, collaborated on a book entitled The Home Team,[26] which dealt with Ruth Ann's battle with breast cancer. Hardin was hard to stop defensively with some great moves down low. Lobo starred for the Huskies when they won a national championship in 1995 following an undefeated season and was also an Olympic gold medalist for Team USA in 1996. VYPE. ''I wrote that man a letter and tried to explain the situation to him,'' John Bridgers said. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Rusty Mitchell, who coached men's gymnastics at The University of New Mexico from 1966-99, passed away over the weekend at the age of 80. The victims name has not been released as of this writing. Former University of Kansas and New Mexico Lobos basketball player Gethro Muscadin has died from injuries sustained in a one-car crash during the early-morning hours of Dec. 30, 2021. Their additional three locations remain open. I like the choices. 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. Choose your favorite sports and teams to follow to be able to see all of the content you want to enjoy first. Muscadin played at Sunrise Christian Academy in Bel Aire, Kansas and Aspire Academy in Louisville, Kentucky during his high school career. 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. The most recent review suggested many other players should be higher than him, thus I moved him down significantly. 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. This is The Pit, the University of New Mexico's arena where the Final Four yesterday was reduced to tomorrow night's Title-Game Two, the 17,121-seat arena that inspired one of college basketball's most notorious scandals, the arena where the coach who dealt in forged transcripts and phony credits, Norm Ellenberger, is still hailed by many Lobo rooters as a mod version of Albuquerque's original conqueror, the Spanish explorer Coronado. Also think you missed naming Phil Abney (leading scorer on 1977-1978 fourth-ranked in nation Lobos); 1975-1976's George Berry and Larry Gray; and F Willie Howard from Norm Ellenberger's great late 1970s squads. 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. I would have have Kendall, Greg Brown, and Marlow White higher, and Hugh Greenwood, Khari Jaxon, and Elijah Brown on the just missed list. I think our personal choices are determined, by large, by whom you were impressed with when they were playing if you were watching them perform. Well, at least one former Lobo helps beat UCONN. But inside, the street level is 45 rows above a basketball court as shiny as Indian jewelry. Here is my list. Lobo played college basketball at the University of Connecticut, where she was a member of the team that won the 1995 national championship, going 350 on the season in the process. rules, and that was the extent of it.''. They published the first episode on October 23, 2017. In March 2020, Nob Hill mainstay Zinc Wine Bar & Bistro closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The driver reportedly sustained injuries that were not life-threatening.
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