While the ongoing pandemic has taken a chunk out of the average home attendance figures in Pit so far this season, those who have shown up have upheld the longtime Lobo fan tradition of showering the court with thundering boos at just about every call made by game officials.
And, based on both that sound and the regularity of UNM men’s basketball players’ disagreement with game officials, one might surmise that the calls have certainly not been going the Lobos’ way through the first 11 games.
So, when the Lobos social media account posted a statistic earlier this week noting that the team had made more free throws than any other of the 358 Division I programs in the country so far this season – obviously a statistic that can only happen if you’re getting at least a few calls going your way – it was a bit of head-scratcher.