It is not accustomed to playing games on Sunday, but the University of New Mexico men's basketball team could use a win any way it could get it — and it came up big in crunch time to do just that.
New Mexico (15-14, 10-6 MW) won its third straight game to elevate its overall record to above .500 for the first time since the opening games of the season, gutting out a 91-90 victory over UNLV on Sunday afternoon.
Things went back and forth throughout the game, and things got chippy at times as the referee's whistle began to blow with more frequency as both teams seemed to give everything they had to hold on to their place in the conference standings.