No, it wasn’t a blowout.
But the UNM Lobos, who had 15 players get into the game, never trailed Division II Rogers State on Friday night, comfortably coasting down the stretch for an 80-69 win to close out exhibition play in front of an announced crowd of 11,754 in the Pit.
And maybe most promising as the focus shifts now toward the regular season, the one-two punch of point guard Cullen Neal (20 points, four assists) and power forward Tim Williams (13 points, eight rebounds, four blocked shots) took another step forward.
“People have to double (team) him,” Neal said of Williams, his new running mate who transferred last year to UNM from Samford.