With the loss at home against Colorado St., the Lobos now have lost two in a row and eliminated themselves from a top-three seed in the conference tournament. However, there’s still plenty for the Lobos to play for, as a first-round bye is still very much in reach and if they’re playing well, anything can happen in Vegas. They’ll look to get back on track up at Wyoming, facing a Cowboys squad looking for a strong finish of their own.
Lobo Baseball Series 2 Preview: Dallas Baptist
After their season-opening sweep of Binghamton last weekend, the Lobos (3-0) take the show on the road to face a very talented and familiar face this weekend when they head to Dallas to take on the Patriots of Dallas Baptist University (3-1). This is an important series for both teams, as it could be the difference in seed lines for the NCAA Tournament. A good thing for the Lobos this year is that they will have a lot of opportunities to pick up great wins, which will be useful if they need an at-large bid, but it would be great to start getting these wins in the second week of the season, rather than needing to pick them up later. It will be important for the Lobos to get great starting pitching this weekend, since it is probably the only area in the matchup where they have a decided edge right now. This should be a fun series to watch, and quite frankly, I hope we get to see this become an annual series for years to come.
Men’s Basketball Seeding Possibilities
The end of the regular season for the Lobos and the rest of the Mountain West basketball teams is coming up – after all, the conference tournament is starting in less than two weeks – and there isn’t a team locked into a seed line yet for the tournament. What happens over the next week and a half will decide every seed line and even the regular season champion, or co-champions. While the Lobos aren’t in the running for the regular season championship anymore, they have plenty to play for over the next week and a half. To get a better sense of that, we’re looking at all the possible scenarios that could play out, and how those scenarios affect each team in the conference. And in particular, in the very likely case that we’ll see some teams tied in the standings, who holds the tiebreakers?
Men’s Basketball Game 28 Preview: Colorado St.
With the tough loss at Fresno St., the Lobos are now 1.5 games back of the three teams tied for first in the conference, making their bid for a regular season conference title all the more difficult. It’s not impossible, though, but any reasonable path towards it has to start with a win against Colorado St. in the Pit. Last time these two teams faced each other, it got pretty heated, so this could end up being a wild, entertaining game.
Basketball Game 27 Preview: Fresno State
The Lobos are coming off a much-needed win against Boise State on Valentine’s Day to keep pace with the rest of the top of the conference. Now, they’ll need to do it again, and again, and again, and again, starting on the road against a reeling Fresno State team. We’re in the home stretch, which makes a strong finish seem both more real, and more necessary than ever.
Lobo Baseball Series 1 Preview: Binghamton University
The long journey of the 2017 Lobo Baseball season starts this weekend against Binghamton University, where the Lobos will face the Bearcats in a three-game series on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Lobos look to get their season off to a great start before their schedule really heats up next weekend when they travel to Dallas Baptist. This should be a very good series to start the season, since Binghamton is a talented team that also made the NCAA Tournament last season.
2017 Lobo Baseball Season Preview: Part 2
2017 Lobo Baseball Season Preview: Part 1
Hope springs eternal for the Lobo Baseball team, as they look to make this year the year that Lob-Omaha becomes a reality. They’re coming off a very strong season, in which they went 39-23 (20-10 in conference play), won the conference tournament, and made noise in the Lubbock Regional before falling to Texas Tech and Dallas Baptist. Although they lost some talent from last season, the Lobos have reason to be optimistic about their chances this year, as not only do they still return a lot of talent, they brought some excellent players into the program, including many intriguing arms for the pitching staff. The Lobos will once again have a great offense and could very well have the arms necessary to bring fear to teams in a regional. While we don’t know what the season has in store for the Lobos, we know that we are excited to cover the journey and see the great moments and memories that play out over the next few months.
Men’s Basketball Game 26 Preview: Boise State
After a weekend off, the Lobos have a guest over for Valentine’s Day in the Boise State Broncos. Boise has been on a roll recently, which has put them in sole possession of first place. And although the Lobos can’t move back into first place with a win, a loss would likely put them out of the running.
Towards a Better Basketball Conference
With the Lobos getting the weekend off, it feels as good as a time as any to revisit a topic that’s been going through my mind a lot recently: conference realignment. After half of the teams in the Mountain West batted their eyelashes at the Big 12 – and were all turned down – it feels like the conference is in a weird place right now and needs to do something to survive. Especially given that none of the Power 5 conferences are likely to be looking for new members and the gap between the haves and the have-nots seems like it’s growing every day. The Mountain West is pretty solidly one of the best of the rest, but the truth is, it feels hard to imagine the conference ever joining the ranks of the elite in football, which is where most of the attention is focused these days.