UNM Lobo center Obij Aget, the 7-foot-1 junior, broke his nose during a scrimmage on Sunday at the Rudy Davalos Center practice facility and will not participate in Friday night’s Lobo Howl.
UNM coach Craig Neal said it isn’t an injury that is expected to cost Aget any game time (the season starts Nov. 13). Aget had surgery on Wednesday and will be fitted for a mask within the next week before being allowed to resume practice.
The injury happened, according to Neal, when sophomore Sam Logwood, a former prep school teammate of Aget at La Lumiere School in La Porte, Ind.