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Pit Magic has been on loan to the squad across the street so far this season.

Anyone who doesn鈥檛 think so must have missed the final 30 minutes or so of action of last week鈥檚 UNM Lobo football win 鈥� in double overtime 鈥� over then-Mountain-West-leading San Diego State inside a very loud University Stadium.

Saturday, as the Lobos host a Santa Clara team that is the highest-ranked non-conference opponent that any Mountain West school has scheduled at home this season, UNM is hoping Pit Magic finds its way back home to that 37-foot hole in the ground where 60 years of having the crowd serve as a sixth man on their court has helped the Lobos be one of college basketball鈥檚 toughest teams to beat in their home arena.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a big game for us,鈥� said first-year Lobo hoops coach Eric Olen, whose team is 5-0 in the Pit so far. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a white out (promotion with fans asked to wear white) in the Pit on Saturday, and we need everybody here. We need the full-throat version of the Pit, because it鈥檚 a great basketball team.

鈥�... This is the best non-conference game in the entire Mountain West, in terms of home games. So we hope to take advantage of that opportunity. We need everybody.鈥�

Monday鈥檚 postgame plea from the laid back Olen wasn鈥檛 accompanied by the same marketing push of the highly-produced 鈥極ffice鈥� or 鈥楪one in 60 Seconds鈥� social media videos his fellow first-year Lobo coach Jason Eck was able to be a part of with UNM鈥檚 marketing teams in the school鈥檚 all-hands-on-deck effort to get everyone out to football games this season (University Stadium鈥檚 year-over-year average home attendance growth of 57.8% leads the nation, by the way), but it was part of UNM appearing to start it鈥檚 post-football return to pushing the marketing for all sports.

UNM posted an attendance graphic calling for 13,000 fans in the Pit on Saturday 鈥� the same graphic it used multiple times during the football season when Eck asked for fans to come to football games.

UNM ranks 29th in the country in average home attendance so far this season at 11,224 through five home games 鈥� second in the Mountain West to San Diego State (26th nationally at 11,596).

A year ago, with Donovan Dent, Nelly Junior Joseph and Richard Pitino leading a team that was coming off an NCAA Tournament appearance, the average home attendance through five games in the Pit was just 10,942, before picking up once league play began.

Last season鈥檚 Mountain West champion Lobos got it鈥檚 first 13,000-person crowd in home game number six, when it sold out 15,411 for the clash with New Mexico State. It didn鈥檛 hit 13,000 in a non-近距离内射合集 rivalry game until home game number nine, on Jan. 3, when the team hosted Nevada in the 1,000th men鈥檚 basketball game ever played in the Pit. That crowd, which saw an overtime win over Alford鈥檚 Pack, was announced at 14,622.

Top-ranked opponent

As for this season, Olen is correct. Santa Clara is, in fact, the highest-rated team playing a non-conference game in the home gym of a Mountain West school this season. SC entered Thursday night鈥檚 games ranked 50th in out of 365 Division I men鈥檚 basketball teams.

The days of Mountain West level teams getting good home opponents are long gone in modern college basketball, though fans still voice their displeasure with the Lobos鈥� schedule and its lack of marquee names coming to the Pit each season.

Santa Clara (8-1) has already found success this season over teams with familiarity in this neck of the woods. The Broncos beat Steve Alford鈥檚 Nevada Wolf Pack at home by 15, beat Nico Medved鈥檚 Big Ten Minnesota Golden Gophers by 11 on a neutral court last week and beat Richard Pitino鈥檚 Big East Xavier Musketeers by 19 on the road last month.

鈥淭hey鈥檙e as good as anyone we鈥檝e seen,鈥� Olen said.

Mountain West鈥檚 Top 10 home games:

ranking entering Thursday鈥檚 games

1. Santa Clara (50) at UNM, Saturday

2. Colorado (66) at Colorado State, Saturday

3. Stanford (78) at San Jose State, Dec. 13

4. Utah Valley (88) at Boise State, Nov. 8; at Fresno State, Nov. 15; at San Diego State, Wednesday

5. UC San Diego (95) at Fresno State, Nov. 12; at Nevada, Tuesday

6. Wichita State (98) at Boise State, Nov. 18

7. UC Irvine (130) at San Jose State, Nov. 30

8. Pacific (131) at Nevada, Nov. 8; at Air Force, Wednesday

9. Southern Illinois (135) at Nevada, Nov. 12

10. Miami, Ohio (138) at Air Force, Nov. 15