Lobos go through dress rehearsal

There’s a reason they’re done behind closed doors.

There are a lot of reasons, actually. But among the many reasons the NCAA allows for college basketball teams to hold closed-door scrimmages each preseason out from under the microscope of fans and media — as the UNM Lobos did Saturday in the Pit against Northern Arizona University — is to get real-time experience for players without the worry of over-analyzing every move and every statistic.

Coaches get film to study of their players going against somebody other than the teammates they’ve played against all summer and fall. And, yes, there’s plenty of value in that.

“It was definitely beneficial,” first-year Lobos coach Richard Pitino said…