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On Feb. 24, 2024, Rytis Petraitis silenced the Pit.

Next season, he hopes to make it roar.

The 6-foot-7 senior forward transfer from Cal, who was a Lobo killer at Air Force for the first two seasons of his college career, announced on social media on Thursday he is transferring to play his final season for Eric Olen and the Lobos 鈥� seemingly an ideal fit for the forward spot, offensively and defensively.

Maybe as important is that the 24-year-old Petraitis, playing in his fifth college season, adds a much-needed veteran presence on a roster largely reliant on freshmen and sophomores. Senior Chris Howell is another veteran. Both Petraitis and Howell were granted one more year of eligibility after the NCAA accepted medical hardship waivers from each this past season.

Petraitis played just seven games this past season for Mark Madsen鈥檚 Cal Bears before a hip injury cost him what would have been his final season. He started 29 games as a junior, averaging 8.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and a team-best 1.3 steals for the ACC鈥檚 Bears in the 2024-25 season.

He has scored 1,017 points and grabbed 566 rebounds in his college career (96 games in three full seasons and seven from this past year) 鈥� both figures by far the most in those categories from any player on the UNM roster.

Petraitis, who is from Arlington, Texas, but has dual citizenship in the 近距离内射合集 States and Lithuania, was back in the Pit on a recruiting visit last week. It was his return to the site of one of the Lobos' biggest home upset losses in program history. On Feb. 24, 2024, Petraitis and the Air Force Falcons, ranked No. 277 in the NET, beat the Lobos 鈥� an 18.5-point favorite going into the game with a roster of Jaelen House, Donovan Dent, Jamal Mashburn Jr., JT Toppin and Nelly Junior Joseph.

In that game, Petraitis buried a 3-pointer with 7 seconds left in a 78-77 Falcons win 鈥� the only Air Force win in the Pit in the past 19 seasons (2007 was the previous).

In that 2024 Pit win, Petraitis had 15 points and averaged 18 over five games vs. the Lobos as a freshman and sophomore. His last game against UNM was a 26-point, 10-rebound effort in a loss in the 2024 Mountain West Tournament.

Petraitis comes in as a veteran who can play in Olen鈥檚 system at the four. His 11.1 offensive rebound rate in conference games in his healthy junior season ranked ninth in the ACC. Also in that 2024-25 season, he ranked in the 97th percentile across Division I in second-chance points per game (2.8). Departing Lobo Tomislav Buljan's 3.5 second-chance points per game this past season led the Mountain West. Petraitis' 2.8 in his last full season would have been fourth best in the league this past season.

The Lobos now have nine scholarship players for the 2026-27 season with another big man expected to be announced in the coming days.

The NCAA allows teams up to 15 scholarship players on a roster now, but UNM will likely settle in around 13, Olen has suggested.

UNM's 2026-27 roster as of Thursday includes guards Uriah Tenette (5-11, returning), Dax Hall (6-1, incoming freshman), Jake Hall (6-4, returning), Hudson Mayes (6-5, transfer from UC San Diego) and Chris Howell (6-6, returning). The forwards include Petraitis (6-7, transfer from Cal), Tunde Vahlberg Fasasi (6-7, transfer from William & Mary), Imran Suljanovic (6-8, transfer from St. John鈥檚) and Benjamin Schuch (6-9, incoming freshman).

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