Lobos get Pit rockin’ with stirring comeback vs. FAU

Midway through the second half of Wednesday night’s 99-92 season-opening win over Florida Atlantic, the new-look UNM Lobos got an assist the desperately needed from a source that has taken some lumps as of late.

Visiting Florida Atlantic, seemingly unfazed to that point in the game by the mile-high jump in elevation from its home in Boca Raton, took a 71-69 lead on a Brandon Weatherspoon layup with 10:26 left in the game.

And then, the Pit – an iconic arena that hasn’t been itself in recent years due to the program’s longest postseason drought and more recently due to COVID-19 restrictions and concerns – gave its best impersonation of it old self the announced crowd of 8,553 masked fans could…