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Lobo basketball team hopes size solves problems

The talk of the offseason remains the talk of the 2022-23 season for Lobo basketball.

In order to take the next step, the University of New Mexico men’s basketball team has to evolve from a small, fast-paced, guard-oriented team that only can win games with scores in the 80s and 90s, and instead be a team that can grind out ugly, low-scoring games against big, physical teams. That’s something they quite frankly had no chance to accomplish last seasonm, when they went 13-19 overall and 5-12 in the Mountain West.

Wednesday, at the first open media practice of the preseason – a season that still doesn’t actually begin for six weeks with the Nov.