FRESNO, Calif. \u2013 The New Mexico men\u2019s basketball team recorded the biggest comeback in school history on Saturday night, rallying from down 22 in the first half for an 80-78 win at Fresno State at the Save Mart Center. The Lobos (21-6, 12-4 MW) outscored the Bulldogs (12-15, 6-10 MW) 62-38 over the game\u2019s final 25 minutes to win its fourth straight road game. <\/p>\n
Deyton Albury<\/a> led New Mexico with 21 points and eight rebounds, the highest scoring game of his Mountain West career. Jake Hall<\/a> scored 20 points for his ninth 20-point game of the season. Luke Haupt<\/a> added 10 points for the Lobos. <\/p>\n HOW IT HAPPENED In the second half, the Lobos got within single digits at 46-37 with 18:15 left and cut the score to 51-43 with 15:45 left. An 11-1 UNM run cut the margin to 52-48 with 15:00 to go and Fresno State led 56-54 with 12:00 to play. The Lobos took their first lead of the game, 61-60, just seconds after the midway point of the half. The game was tied, 66-66, with 6:00 left and 70-70 with 4:15 to play. An Albury layup-and-one with 2:25 left gave the Lobos a 77-74 lead before the Bulldogs cut it to 77-76 with 43 seconds to go left. A Hall jumper with 20.2 to go gave UNM a three-point lead as the closed out the two-point win. <\/p>\n LOBO NOTES QUOTABLE UP NEXT \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. \u2013 The New Mexico men\u2019s basketball team recorded the biggest comeback in school history on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-188377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The Bulldogs jumped out to a 9-0 lead over the opening two-and-a-half minutes of the game and extended the advantage to 21-5 with 13:40 left as they made 9-of-10 field goals to start. Fresno State led 26-12 at the midway point of the half before holding their largest lead, 40-18, with 5:15 to go. A 7-0 Lobo run cut the margin to 40-25 with 3:45 to play and another 7-0 run made the margin 42-32 in the final minute. Fresno State held a 44-32 lead at the break, as Hall led UNM with 12 first-half points. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The 22-point deficit was the largest comeback in program history, breaking the previous record of 20, set at Hawaii in 1993 (Lobos rallied from down 31-11 to win 61-58)
\u2022 Combined with the 15-point comeback against Alabama State on Nov. 26, the 2025-26 Lobos become just the second squad in program history to rally from down 15 or more to win in the same season (the 1998-99 Lobos did it three times \u2013 vs. DePaul, vs. Arizona, vs. UTRGV)
\u2022 It marked the first time this season that UNM had two 20-point scorers in a game
\u2022 Hall scored in double figures for the 13th straight game, the second longest streak by a UNM freshman
\u2022 Hall\u2019s nine 20-point games are now five more than the previous UNM freshman record of four<\/p>\n
\u201cI am proud of how our guys kept fighting and never gave up. It just didn\u2019t feel like us to start. We had a little bit of a break with a bye and then a game with a pretty big separation and we weren\u2019t at the level we needed to be at over the first 15 minutes. I thought the close to the half was important to get back within striking distance and we were able to carry that into the second half.\u201d \u2013 Eric Olen<\/a><\/p>\n
The Lobos will conclude the road trip on Tuesday with a visit to Nevada. Game time in Reno is 9 p.m. and the game will air CBS Sports Network.\u00a0<\/p>\n