It was a good run — probably a surprising one to many — but the University of New Mexico men's basketball team came up a bit short in its quest to win the Mountain West Championship and and a chance to dance its way into the NCAA Tournament.
New Mexico entered the conference tournament as one of the hottest teams in the league boasting a season-high five-game winning streak. But after posting two more wins to make it to the championship round, that streak came to an end on Saturday afternoon — as the Lobos fell to the only team that had a longer win streak.