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Lobo men seeking leadership as MWC basketball race tips off

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Were six weeks of optimism-building nonconference play really wiped away by six days of horrible basketball?

New Mexico coach Craig Neal gives instructions during a loss to Washington State in Hawaii. The Lobos have dropped four straight. (Eugene Tanner/The Associated Press)

That seems to be the question surrounding the University of New Mexico men’s basketball team, a loser of four consecutive games heading into tonight’s Mountain West Conference opener against Nevada in the Pit.

The Lobos (7-6) are clearly, and admittedly, a shaken team after allowing 48 3-pointers and coughing up 75 turnovers over a four-game losing streak between Dec.