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Dates set for UNM/NMSU hoops series; Lobos release entire schedule

It’s a date. Two of them, actually.

And this time, it’s in writing.

On the eve of the renewal of the football edition of the Rio Grande Rivalry being played Saturday in Albuquerque after skipping 2020 due to COVID-19, the University of New Mexico on Friday announced it finally settled on dates for this coming seasons men’s basketball home-and-home series with the New Mexico State Aggies.

The football and men’s basketball rivalry series had each been played every year since 1945 (World War II) until the pandemic forced them off the schedule in 2020-21 season.

UNM, under first year head coach Richard Pitino, will host the Aggies in the Pit on a Monday, Dec.