It ain’t the NCAA Tournament, but the Lobos get to slip on their dancing shoes at least one more time in the Pit after all.
The Lobos earned a No. 3 seed and will host Utah Valley on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. in the Pit in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament — the 32-team event that was announced late Sunday following the sport’s main event 68-team NCAA Tournament field was announced. The game will be streamed online on ESPN-plus.
The invitation ends a nine-year hiatus from postseason play — the longest such drought in the nearly 60-year modern era of Lobos basketball (the Pit era) — for a program that two years ago beat just four Division I teams and finished 303 in the NET rankings.