Up Next: New Mexico

[UNI Prof]

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Seems the Lobo fans just don't like Lucas. There is a thread on the Lobo Lair called "Bearded Thug!"

I bet that's really tearing up Lucas. He just wants to be loved.

[06panther10]

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ALFORD: "We wanna play fast. I think Northern probably wants to play a little more controlled, So, it'll be interesting, the tempo that gets set (tonight) will be a big key."

Seems like we generally do pretty well against these teams that rely on running up and down the court.

New Mexico fast break points- 0

+1 for me.

[ricoLobo]

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New Mexico fast break points- 0

+1 for me.

Props to your team for taking it to us tonight. IMO, the thing that hurt us early was our leading scorer McDonald getting two quick fouls and consequently never getting into the flow of the game.

You guys are tough -- hope you go far in your league and have a run in the post season like last year.

We're young and this was a learning experience for us -- and we were also missing one of our bigs, who hasn't played in the last two and half games. He's the kid Negedu, that had the heart attack while working out while playing for Tennessee last year, and wound up at UNM.

You forced turnovers and dictated the tempo -- I thought we had enough to come back, but you made the plays when it counted.

I hope we meet again down the road.

[UNIpanther99]

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Quality post ricoLOBO. We certainly hope you guys go on to have another monster regular season again. Quality wins like ours tonight are hard to come by these days.

[Panther-Sheik]

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Great game and great win. AJ was absolutely dominant again after an off night last night. My greatest take-away (aside from the W over a very good UNM team and a Las Vegas title in pocket) is that Jake Koch seemed to have a coming out party. He was awesome in the first half and really asserted himself as an offensive threat, both inside and outside. He showed so much emotion and spark tonight and was more than willing to take it right at the Lobo defense. I think this might be the beginning of something truly great for J. Koch. He didn't look like Adam's little brother tonight...he looked like Jake Koch!

[phillylobo]

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Lobo fan here, just wanted to congratulate you guys on a good game and a nice win. You guys dictated tempo and made big shots when you needed to. Best of luck to you the rest of the year.

[UNI Prof]

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Lobo fan here, just wanted to congratulate you guys on a good game and a nice win. You guys dictated tempo and made big shots when you needed to. Best of luck to you the rest of the year.

Same to you. I really hope you guys win them all.

[Panther'73]

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Anthony and Jake made the all-tournament team and Kwadzo was named Most Valuable Player. Small group of us Panther fans cheering them on and it was great when the guys would hit a big shot - it got pretty quiet. So much fun!!! Team will not get away for Christmas. Don't get back to CF til tomorrow night and have practice Christmas Day.

[UNIMIS2001]

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Lobo fan here, just wanted to congratulate you guys on a good game and a nice win. You guys dictated tempo and made big shots when you needed to. Best of luck to you the rest of the year.

I have to give props to some of the lobo fans, they seem like a good bunch. Not like the UNLV fans, I would love to play them again in the tournament.

[95UNIGRAD]

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I bet that's really tearing up Lucas. He just wants to be loved.

HAHA - he's our bearded thug! I've made the comment before to my wife that if Lucas played for another team I probably wouldn't like him. But....he's OUR enforcer, so he's one of my favorites.

[Panther-Sheik]

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Anthony and Jake made the all-tournament team and Kwadzo was named Most Valuable Player. Small group of us Panther fans cheering them on and it was great when the guys would hit a big shot - it got pretty quiet. So much fun!!! Team will not get away for Christmas. Don't get back to CF til tomorrow night and have practice Christmas Day.

I am very envious of you guys, '73. Saw you on tv many times while having a watch party. Great time I'm sure. You guys represented well, and you could hear the "UNI, UNI, UNI" chants on tv. Glad you all helped the fellas bring home some Christmas hardware.

[Mudrafan]

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We have strung together several high quality wins. We just need the continued improvement of Pehl to help us reach last year's potential.

[UNIChippewa]

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[I]We just need the continued improvement of Pehl to help us reach last year's potential.[/I]

These are great wins for us, but I don't want fans to get too far ahead of themselves by comparing this season's squad to last season. We won 30 games last year and made the Sweet Sixteen. I think we can and will challenge for the league title again, but let's not set up ourselves for disappointment either.

[achrist70]

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[I]We just need the continued improvement of Pehl to help us reach last year's potential.[/I]

These are great wins for us, but I don't want fans to get too far ahead of themselves by comparing this season's squad to last season. We won 30 games last year and made the Sweet Sixteen. I think we can and will challenge for the league title again, but let's not set up ourselves for disappointment either.

While I agree with you completely I think if we can get a little bit more post scoring to replace Jordan's scoring from last year from the Bearded Thug and Austin we could be very scary. If you look Jake has taken over Adam's role and scoring, and AJ has taken over Ali's scoring. If you look at Chip he has taken over Jake's role from last year, and those two 3's he hit last night I really hope will boast his confidence. As for AJ's replacement, well his role wasn't huge last year but maybe if Morrison can hit a few shots now and then that will help. When we get Kerwin back it will add a long defender which is the one thing I don't think we have had the last 9 games.

I don't know for sure where this team will finish this year, but I do know by looking at other schools message boards that people are starting to realize that taking the title away from the Panthers isn't going to be a given.

[Panther-Sheik]

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I don't know for sure where this team will finish this year, but I do know by looking at other schools message boards that people are starting to realize that taking the title away from the Panthers isn't going to be a given.

Isn't this a great comment?! After the win last night our group was high fiving and laughing and saying, who would have ever thought 15 years ago that UNI would be a "basketball school"? Not saying we aren't a "football school", too. Just saying that it was all but unthinkable to be talking about coming off of two consecutive MVC crowns and competing for a 3rd.