Oh, to have been a fly on the wall the moment Eric Olen walked into the room to meet with his team about the next step. The first-year University of New Mexico basketball coach had just gotten word that his Lobos received a bid to the National Invitational Tournament and would play their first postseason game Wednesday night in The Pit. Left out of the NCAA Tournament following a 23-win ...

Eric Olen remembers the closed door scrimmage his UC San Diego team had with nearby Division II Point Loma Nazarene in the 2021-22 season. A local player Olen was familiar with, but didn't pursue particularly hard in recruiting, had his way with Olen's Tritons that day. Five years later, on the eve of playing Colorado State for the UNM Lobos' final home game of the season, and in the second ...