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January 26, 2012
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Colorado State overthrown 85-52 by Cesar Davila
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Adria Malcolm / Daily Lobo Lobo guard Demetrius Walker avoids Colorado State University defenders while taking a shot at The Pit last night. The Lobos ended a twogame slide with a 85-52 win over the CSU Rams.
Up 13 points and in control of the game with 17:23 left in the second half, the Lobo men’s basketball team broke Colorado State apart. The Lobo defense spared the Rams just two field goals in the next 10 minutes as UNM jumped out to a 20-point lead and eventually sealed an 85-52 win Wednesday night at The Pit. “I thought we attacked. I thought we played strong. We were physical,” head coach Steve Alford said. Coming off a two-game losing streak, which included a letdown at home against San Diego State and a 19-point lopsided defeat to UNLV on the road last Saturday, UNM (16-4, 2-2 MWC), needed to muster a win to stay in contention for the Mountain West regular season title. “Some of the hardest things in athletics is when you’ve been knocked down, is to see how you’re going to react,” Alford said. “Our guys really reacted even better than what we’d hoped.” The Lobos came out firing, hitting four of their first five shots to start the game. Two of those baskets were 3-pointers from sophomore guard Tony Snell. The shots kept falling. With 7:38 left in the half, a steal by junior forward Chad Adams led to a layup by freshman guard Hugh Greenwood and ignited a 17-2 run that gave the Lobos a 4321 lead with under three minutes to go. Despite giving up five quick points to start the second half, the Lobos response matched the intensity from the first half — unlike the previous two games. “At the UNLV game and the San Diego State game, we were feeling comfortable at half time,” senior forward Drew Gordon said. “This time we had to make sure that we maintained focus and kept the
pressure the whole game.” And keep the pressure they did. The Lobos forced the Rams into 20 turnovers and held them to 37.2 percent shooting for the game, including 21.4 from 3-point range. Colorado State (13-6, 2-2 MWC) was held to one point over its season low of 51, which it recorded four days ago against Wyoming.
“Basketball is not easy at this level, and a lot is going to be thrown at them.” ~Steve Alford Lobo men’s basketball head coach The Lobos finished with four players in double-digits. Gordon recorded his 11th double-double of the season with 13 points and 14 rebounds. Snell and senior guard Phillip McDonald each added 12 points and junior guard Jamal Fenton had 10. The Lobos dominated fast break points 25-4 and on the bench outscored the Rams 42-5. Alford, who wore his red blazer, will continue to do so for the next three games. After the UNLV loss, he told his team he was going to challenge it more than he ever has. “It’s going to be 13 days like they’ve never seen,” Alford said. “Red blazer will be out again Saturday. It’s on.” “Basketball is not easy at this level, and a lot is going to be thrown at them,” Alford said. “This is a pretty important 13 days of teaching that we are doing and the guys have bought it so far, but
‘Ether Man’ convicted of sexual assault in Colorado by Chelsea Erven
news@dailylobo.com For 15 years, a suspected serial rapist known as “Ether Man” raped and terrorized at least 11 Albuquerque women, many of them UNM students at the times of the assaults. In October, Robert Bruce admitted in a Colorado courtroom to being Ether Man. Bruce is accused of sexually assaulting women in the southwest from 1991 to 2006 by placing a chemical-soaked cloth over their mouths and trying to rape
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them, earning him the nickname “Ether Man.” He is already serving a 64-year prison sentence for attempting to murder a Colorado police officer who was scheduled to testify against him in a peeping Tom case. On Friday, Bruce was sentenced to an additional 24 years in prison for two attempted sexual assaults in Colorado. Friday’s sentencing brings Bruce one step closer to being tried in
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New Mexico, but Bernalillo Country District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Kayla Anderson said it is unclear when Bruce will be extradited to New Mexico. Bernalillo County District Attorney Kari Brandenburg told KRQE that Bruce faces more than 100 years in prison if he is convicted of the rapes here. “He understands that he is going to spend the rest of his life in prison,” Robert Bruce Brandenburg said.
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Mandra Ryan was a student at UNM in 2000 when Ether Man broke into her home, took pictures and began to stalk her. “He would unscrew the sensor lights in our backyard,” Ryan said in a 2009 KRQE interview. “He would oil all of the doors; break in.” Ryan said she believes he was planning his final attack on her, just as he’d done to his rape victims, but she confronted him before he had the chance. After catching Ether Man lurking in her yard, she yelled at him and he ran away.
Ryan said he attacked two of her friends soon after he stopped stalking her. In July, Bruce wrote a letter from his Colorado prison room to one of his New Mexico victims. “I don’t fully understand why I did what I did to you,” he wrote. “I don’t know if it was for the adrenaline rush, power or control or exactly what the driver was. I only know that I was addicted to doing it and could not stop. The remorse and guilt were always with me, but would diminish over time to a level where I would do it again. I battled with it all my adult life.”
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