Women's Basketball

University of New Mexico

South Athletics Complex - Albuquerque, NM - 87131
Team Office: Tel: (505) 925-5770 Fax: (505) 277-5941
Team website: www.golobos.com/

Founded in 1889, the University of New Mexico offers 145 Bachelor, 83 Master, and 42 Doctorate degrees. Its school of medicine is ranked among the top ten medical schools for primary care. Its school of Engineering is ranked 50th nationally. Its Nursing, Pharmacy, Anthropology, Biology, Flamenco Dance, and Latin American and Western history are highly acclaimed. Other majors offered include Athletic Training and Sports Medicine, Medical Laboratory Technician, Criminology, Sign Language Interpretation, Linguistics, and Pharmacy. US News 2008 report on America's Best Colleges ranked New Mexico in the third tier among national institutions.

The campus is located in the heart of Albuquerque (pop.500k).

School website
www.unm.edu

College Profile

Type:

Public, Co-educational

Religious Affiliation:

None

Enrollment:

24,000

Getting In:

Moderately Difficult. ACT 25/75: 19-25

Tuition + Room & Board:

In-state: ~$11,000
Out-of-State: ~$20,000

Most Popular Majors

Business - Education - Health Sciences

Misc. Information

Head coach Don Flanagan enters his 13th season at UNM in 2007-08. In the four years prior to Flanagan's arrival in 1995-96, the women's program recorded just 14 wins against 96 losses. In his first year Flanagan won 14 games and snapped a 54 game road losing streak. Flanagan has guided the Lobos to 11 consecutive winning seasons and ten straight postseason appearances, including seven trips to the NCAA Tournament while producing nine 20+ winning seasons. Attendance, which was dismal before Flanagan took over, has skyrocketed. UNM plays in the Pit, recognized among the top 20 sporting venues in the nation, where the Lobos win more than 80% of their games. Flanagan is one of the few modern day coaches that went from coaching high school (Eldorado High) to the college D1 ranks. His prep record was an astonishing 401-13 mark for a 97 percent winning percentage. Flanagan played collegiate basketball at Fort Lewis all four years. In 2006-07, the Lobos went 24-9 and lost in the second round of the NCAA tourney to Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Team Name	Lobos
Colors	Cherry and Silver
Division	NCAA Division I
All-Time Record	447-371 (.545)

Recent Record (Last 8 Years)

	Last Yr	Last Yr - 1	Last Yr - 2	Previous 5 Years
Overall	24-9	22-10	23-4	109-50 (.686)
Conference	11-5	11-5	12-2	48-22 (.685)
Conf. Finish	2	3	1	1, 2, 2, 3, 3
Post Appear.	1st Rnd	2nd Rnd	n/a	NCAA 4x
Final 25 Rank	NR	#24	NR	1x

Coaches

Head Coach	Don Flanagan
	Birthday: 0000-00-00
Started at New Mexico	1995-96
Contract Expires	?
Record as Head Coach	263-113 (.699)
Record at New Mexico	263-113 (.699)
Coaching Awards	MWC COTY (05), WBCA Region COTY (06)

Asst. Coaches	Yvonne Sanchez, Dave Shoemate, Shane Flanagan

Recruiting Coordinator

Yvonne Sanchez, (505) 925-5771, chez15@unm.edu

Conference and Schedule

New Mexico is a member of the Mountain West Conference (www.themwc.com) which is comprised of nine teams from seven states. It is the newest member of the Division I conferences, with most of the schools coming from the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). Currently, UNM plays a 16 game schedule with league play starting after January 1 with games often played on Thursday evenings and Saturday afternoons. UNM will play each team twice, home and away. The season concludes with the MWC tourney which takes . . .(tbp, explain seeding)

Conference Opponents

Air Force, BYU, Colorado State, Utah, San Diego State, UNLV, Texas Christian, and Wyoming.

Facilities

The Pit
Capacity: 18,000 ; Average Attendance: ?

Style/Stats

Flanagan's teams have become noted for their stifling defense. In 2006-07, New Mexico was ranked 13th in defense, limiting opponents to 54.9 ppg.