RENO, Nev. — For Lobo fans, the glimpse across the court whenever the UNM men’s basketball team laces ‘em up against the Nevada Wolf Pack has a glimpse of the past.
Former Lobo head coaches Steve Alford and Craig Neal, trying to replicate in Reno what they once had in Albuquerque, are now in their third season as the Wolf Pack’s head and associate head coach, respectively.
For first-year Lobos coach Richard Pitino — hired four years after the end of the decade-long Alford/Neal tenure at UNM — his glance at the opposing team Saturday night in the Lawlor Events Center in the Mountain West Conference opener for both teams will both bring back memories of his coaching past and optimism about his coaching future.