It wasn’t hard to pinpoint when the tank went dry.
With 4:35 left in the third quarter of Wednesday’s Sun Coast Challenge game against Mississippi State, Shaiquel McGruder hit a breakaway layup and her University of New Mexico women’s basketball trailed 50-45.
To that point, the Lobos had effectively traded punches with the deeper, much-taller Bulldogs.
Then UNM’s shots stopped landing and a knockout soon followed.
New Mexico (7-5) missed 16 consecutive shots over nearly 10 minutes, and Mississippi State (11-2) took full advantage. The Bulldogs used a 27-2 surge to break things wide open at Pasco-Hernando State College and left New Port Richey, Florida with an 87-58 win.