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Women's basketball: Lobos open up the season with a win

The New Mexico Women’s Basketball team opened the new season the way that every team hopes to — with a win.

The Lobos defeated Division II Lubbock Christian University on Tuesday night at Dreamstyle Arena, 62-55. UNM fought through a bad shooting night that saw the team go 5-33 from three as well as 21 turnovers to beat the Lady Chaps.

“I think we played hard enough,” Head Coach Mike Bradbury said. “Defensively we did a really good job of, I’m not going to say following the plan, because we didn’t really prepare.