It’ll start with the Rams and end with the Rams.
Steve Alford will return to the Pit, but a Bairstow family reunion in the Pit is not in the cards.
Those are the headlines for Lobo men’s basketball as the Mountain West Conference on Wednesday released its 2022-23 league schedule. The 18 league games complete UNM’s schedule; the nonconference slate came out in July.
In all, the Lobos will host 19 games in the Pit (20 counting the Oct. 29 exhibition game against Division II Colorado State-Pueblo).
UNM opens conference Mountain West play at home against Colorado State on Dec. 28 in Richard Pitino’s second season at the helm. League play concludes March 4 with a rematch with the Rams in Fort Collins.
Though already in his fourth season coaching Nevada, former Lobos head coach Steve Alford and the Wolf Pack (including associate head coach Craig Neal, also a former…