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Community member dispels stigmas about unhoused individuals

By Dylan Haworth @dylanhaworth2 From being formerly unhoused himself, David McKibben has seen the worst of what Albuquerque has to offer and wants to take an active position in changing the inhumane treatment of the unhoused community. With his own plans for making the city better, he encourages others to dispel the negative and untruthful stigmas around unhoused communities.

McKibben came to Albuquerque in 2012 hoping to find a job within the first two weeks of being here, but fell into a slump when that didn’t happen. In addition to that, his former drug use further intensified his situation, something many other unhoused community members struggle with as well.

“I wasn’t so happy about myself ... There was a lot of childhood trauma that was undealt with that led me to extreme drug use that just perpetuated me being homeless,” McKibben said.

McKibben explained that, for many, the struggles of experiencing homelessness are a downward spiral.

“A lot of the time, you don’t choose

Liam DeBonis / Daily Lobo / @LiamDebonis David McKibben, former member of the unhoused community, stands at the Duck Pond at UNM.

to be homeless,” McKibben said.

“You just get stuck in it, then you get so down and depressed that you can’t help but want to use drugs to escape that. It’s just a dark hole.”

Many unhoused individuals often fear major disruption in their lives by the police, and in Albuquerque, reported force cases with the police became more common every

year from 2016 to 2020, according to the 2020 Preliminary Annual Force Report.

Most of McKibben’s aggressive interactions with police were sparked by fearful property owners. In one instance, McKibben and other unhoused community members had a self-contained fire in a parking lot, but were approached by the Albuquerque Police Department and told not only to put it out but also leave.

“We tell him we’re not doing anything against city ordinances,” McKibben said. “They just responded, ‘Well, someone called.’ It all starts with a person saying, ‘Oh, they have nothing? I’m going to bother them.’”

While unhoused individuals are scattered around the city, many often cluster together in encampments to share resources or maintain warmth.

However, Source NM has reported that these encampments have been targets of APD sweeps, in which property and valuables are destroyed or trashed, leading to quick decisions for individuals on what to take and what to leave behind. Arrests can also take place in sweeps, and McKibben has had friends arrested for years-old warrants on accounts of petty theft.

“Usually they take bags, tents or

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Death of UNM Director of Bands Eric Rombach-Kendall leaves profound impact, legacy

By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716 The University of New Mexico suffered a great loss with the death of music professor and Director of Bands Eric Rombach-Kendall on Monday, Jan. 24. Survived by his wife Julie and children Michael and Rebecca, Rombach-Kendall is remembered not only for his musical genius but also for his heartfelt impact on the lives of those around him.

Rombach-Kendall served as director of bands at UNM for nearly 30 years since 1993. Previously, he was a conductor at Boston University and Carleton College, and he taught in the Washington State public school system for six years.

Rombach-Kendall was recognized nationally when he served as the president of the College Band Directors National Association from 2011 to 2013.

A vigil was held Monday afternoon when Rombach-Kendall was still in a coma after suffering from a heart attack. Loved ones, colleagues, current and former students, and more were in attendance to mourn.

Colleague Chad Simons, associate professor of music and director

of UNM athletics bands, referenced a section from Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb” at the vigil, speaking of the light that Rombach-Kendall always gave to UNM. “For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it,” Gorman’s poem reads.

Having taught and conducted thousands of musicians, RombachKendall’s legacy will continue for generations through his students, colleagues and others.

“I truly admired Eric’s dependable, thoughtful, straightforward leadership. As many of you, I truly looked up to him and knew that If I had a problem he had my back.

He was always incredibly supportive,” Michael Hix, interim chair of the music department, wrote in an email to the fine arts department. “He is irreplaceable and will be deeply missed by his friends, colleagues and mentees/students here at UNM.” Hix referenced “A Psalm of Life,” a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, to conclude the vigil on Monday.

“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime / And, departing, leave behind us,

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Eric Rombach-Kendall served as the director of bands at UNM since 1993. Photo courtesy of UNM Music.

footprints on the sands of time / Footprints, that perhaps another, sailing o’er life’s solemn main / A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, seeing, shall take heart again,” Hix read out loud.

Megan Gleason is the Editor-inChief of the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at editorinchief@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @fabflutist2716

Minimum wage increase lightens financial burdens on college students

By Annya Loya @annyaloya Since New Mexico increased its minimum wage from $10.50 to $11.50 with the start of the new year, many college students have felt some weight lift off of their shoulders as they attempt to navigate the financial woes of being a college student in 2022.

For Tallulah Begaye, an intercultural communications major at the University of New Mexico, the dollar increase could create positive changes in her daily life.

“I’m very dependent on my check.

My parents and I have a deal: my tribe’s scholarship pays for a half, my parents pay for a fourth and I pay for a fourth (of my tuition). Then I also pay for my food and anything that I want that’s not for school,” Begaye said.

Begaye has been working at Old Navy for the past four years, and recently went from working 12 hours per week to 31 hours per week while still being a full-time college student.

UNM student and business major Bree Peterson said the minimum wage increase has already been a great change for her.

“I think that a dollar goes a long way. But If I’m only able to work three hours a day, that’s still an extra dollar an hour,” Peterson said. “It gives a buffer zone.”

Peterson works between 2530 hours per week at Neko Neko, Albuquerque’s first Japanese Taiyaki dessert shop, and is also a full-time student.

“School is my first priority and, that being said, if I start giving away shifts, start calling in to do school, then I can’t make that money and what am I supposed to do when the car payment comes up, or a phone payment or I get another bill from UNM?” Peterson said.

Begaye said working a minimumwage job not affiliated with her degree is a choice she must make to pay her bills. While building degree-related experience would be helpful, many related internships are often unpaid. see

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blankets ... Whatever little bit they might have. Whether it’s one bag or a dozen, it doesn’t matter,” McKibben said. “I know it looks like nothing in a trash can, but to them it’s everything they’ve got. They’ll dump it in the trash or sometimes they’ll even bulldoze people’s stuff. You either get out of there or you’ll be cited.”

After spending years on the streets, McKibben decided to get sober. Lacking sleep and coming down from drug abuse, McKibben suggested to his girlfriend that they get off drugs but she didn’t agree and kicked him out. After that, McKibben said he

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“walked into Alcoholics Anonymous and I just kept going.”

Later when pursuing sobriety, McKibben got a job at a gas station but was fired because of a hole in his pants. But after telling AA what happened, one of the leaders gave McKibben a ride to Walmart and handed over his credit card and pin number so he could go buy supplies. This was a turning point in McKibben’s life.

Wesley Branch, long-time friend of McKibben, said McKibben’s story is one that displays how just a small amount of help can

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change someone’s life.

“David showed me just how far a person can succeed when they are given some love and a place to stay.

He has shown me that a person can completely flip their lives into a positive direction when they are given an opportunity to do so,” Branch said.

A huge factor in exacerbating the conditions of unhoused people is the antagonistic attitudes of housed communities toward those experiencing homelessness, especially in wealthier areas, according to McKibben. This, he said, only adds to the feelings of isolation and hopelessness.

“It just makes things worse when you don’t get support or people to help you out,” McKibben said. “You end up having to do bad things that people will judge you for because that’s the only way you can eat.”

Simple acts of kindness and empathy go a long way in bettering the lives of the unhoused, according to McKibben.

“You don’t know what heaven’s like until you haven’t eaten for three days and someone gives you a halfeaten cold calzone,” McKibben said.

McKibben hopes to take the lessons of his struggles and apply them

toward giving back to his community. He’s transitioned to working in food service and ultimately plans to help stereotyped communities in his future.

“I want to start a restaurant and a sober living facility,” McKibben said.

“I would hire recovering addicts, homeless people and felons ... It’s not about what people can do for us, but what we can do for each other.”

“You know, jobs want experience and internships but the experience is not paying my bills so I don’t mind working minimum wage,” Begaye said.

Michael Felix, a computer engineering major at UNM, feels that the minimum wage increase could open up more free time and, ultimately, allow for him to take unpaid internships and jobs that offer career-based experience that he wouldn’t have been able to work before.

“It makes it a lot harder trying to find a job after graduation if you don’t really have too much work experi-

ence or no work experience at all,” Felix said.

Begaye said keeping her financial and personal independence is one of her biggest worries — she feels that she needs to maintain a heavy work schedule while taking 15 college credits to retain that independence. But all of it doesn’t come without hurting her mental and physical health.

“If I didn’t have a job, I wouldn’t be able to support myself and I would have to move back home, and that is terrifying,” Begaye said. “If I move back home, I don’t

know how sustainable that would be for me mentally, emotionally, even physically.”

Begaye has felt relief with the minimum wage increase and looks forward to a less exhausting future.

“Maybe I can afford more food or have more trips because I’ll have the gas money. Or maybe even I can afford to work fewer hours so I can focus more on school,” Begaye said.

Dylan Haworth is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at news@dailylobo.comor on Twitter @dylanhaworth2

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Art exhibit by UNM adjunct lecturer shows in North Carolina

By Megan Gleason @abflutist2716 Johannes Barfield, University of New Mexico adjunct lecturer in the art department, was commissioned to show his new art exhibition “my sun is black as the glowing sea by night” at the University of North Carolina’s Rowe Gallery. This image-based narration is an immersive experience that started its display on Jan. 10 and will be on view until Feb. 25.

The exhibit’s narrative is based on a fictional character, yahyah, who was inspired by two children’s books that Barfield grew up reading — “The Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats and “Danny and the Dinosaur” by Syd Hoff. Yahyah accidentally encounters a tear in the space-time continuum and experiences alternate versions of himself after walking into the portal.

Barfield described this narrative as “an opportunity for me to reflect on and think on those children books in connection with my life.”

A 30-minute video plays at the exhibition and the loudspeakers attached are intentional.

“It has the ability for someone to

walk in and be immersed without having to put on headphones and isolate themselves in the exhibition space,” Barfield said.

Justin Smith, the project’s curator and creative director, said it is “the narrative (about) a Black kid that really makes the story relatable” in addition to its creative elements of science fiction.

“It’s been very fun working with (Barfield) as far as him building his world … with these characters,” Smith said.

Barfield pulled heavily from his personal experiences to create this exhibit.

“As an artist, I don’t ever want to overreach and say what I think something is going to do but I will say that my intentions for the exhibition are for people to have some sort of understanding of my particular story, where I come from,” Barfield said.

The exhibit was originally supposed to be displayed in early 2020 but was delayed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Honestly, it’s been a great experience and horrific one all intertwined but I think that, actually, it’s good that it did get delayed as long as it has be-

cause it gave me an opportunity to be able to bring other people on board and have some other iteration of my ideas that I was originally going to exhibit,” Barfield said.

One of those people brought on board was Smith, and as someone who appreciates working with artists that use personal collage-based practices, he was more than happy to work on the exhibition with Barfield.

“It was really cool how he had most of the ideas he was working with already and I kind of just helped him build them up,” Smith said.

Barfield said the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced some new difficulties for the project but said it makes one see “how you can handle working in freefall.”

“Nothing has been easy for me so adding (the pandemic) to it is kind of like a testament to see how far you can go with the limitations of who you think you are and what you think you can do in these particularly dire straits,” Barfield said.

Barfield and Smith were working on the project together virtually from two different states due to the pandemic’s limitations.

“Given we’ve been working on this

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Graphic advertisement of the ongoing art exhibit “my sun is black as the glowing sea by night” by Johannes Barfield. Photo courtesy of Charlotte College of Art and Architecture.

show over Zoom calls, it’s been rather interesting to visualize things in a physical form, just trying to work with the limitations that we’ve had, but it has been great,” Smith said.

Concurrently, Barfield is showing as part of the group exhibition “Reckoning and Resilience: North Carolina Art Now” until July 10 at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art.

Barfield and Smith will be having a virtual discussion about “my sun is black as the glowing sea by night” on Wednesday, Feb. 9.

Megan Gleason is the Editor-inChief of the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at editorinchief@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @fabflutist2716

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JoJo Siwa dazzles Las Cruces

By Madeline Pukite @madelinepukite Nothing short of show-stopping, JoJo Siwa made her presence known in Las Cruces, New Mexico at the 105th stop of her D.R.E.A.M. tour on Wednesday, Jan. 26. A masterful stage presence complete with five costume changes made for a captivating performance from Siwa that I’m glad I didn’t miss.

The show as a whole used childlike creativity and joy. Dancers rolled around on Heelys, themes of cotton candy and rainbow brightened the night, Siwa’s outfits were bedazzled with jewels that made

her shimmer like a disco ball onstage: what more can you ask for?

This, combined with spectacular effort and skill, created a show that grabbed my attention and felt larger than life.

Siwa first came into the public eye as a child dancer on “Dance Moms” and continues to dazzle the stage with her presence. Over the past year, Siwa has won over the hearts of many with her performance with Jenna Johnson on “Dancing with the Stars” as the show’s first same-sex pairing.

While the bright, outlandish costumes are a staple of any pop star, Siwa’s dancing ultimately stole the show with energetic and

electrifying choreography. When performing “#1U,” Siwa did a jive dance number with backup dancer Ezra Sosa; this, choreographed

by Johnson, showed off Siwa’s more technical dance skills well.

When Siwa sang “Back To That Girl” and “Nobody Can Change Me” with her hair up into a high ponytail topped off with a bow, everyone could clearly see the melodramatic ode to her younger self. This sweet, lighthearted way of honoring the image that first gained her a lot of attention — one that she is now starting to grow out of — was touching. The original, upbeat and optimistic singles she performed also delighted her

younger audience.

Siwa didn’t direct her attention just at the younger audience, but also aimed to entertain all generations present at her show. Kicking back into the classics, Siwa performed a medley of Queen songs, including “We Will Rock You,” “Another One Bites the Dust” and “We Are the Champions.” Informing the kids they might not know the songs before she started, she still kept all audience members entertained by using thematic baseball game elements while singing, using a scoreboard and even dropping to do push-ups.

Throughout the show, the connection between Siwa and her backup dancers was clear. Their genuine friendship made the show even more enjoyable to watch, and it was obvious that they were all having the time of their lives performing. They brought me, as an audience member, into that

friendship, and let me in on their excitement and euphoria.

The technicalities of lighting and special effect work made the concert feel like a light show in and of itself. Cascading showers of light the pink, red, blue and purple hues added an extra pizazz to the overthe-top nature of the show.

The show encapsulated what I love most about pop stars: a bright, dramatic and hyper-feminine image. This was infused into the performance and created an unforgettable experience. Through neon colors, eccentric backdrops and vivid emotions, Siwa created a captivating and eccentric performance that left me humming along all the way back to the parking lot.

Madeline Pukite is a beat reporter at the Daily Lobo. They can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com, or on Twitter @madelinepukite

UNM men’s basketball nabs first conference victory

By Matthew Salcido @baggeyedguy The University of New Mexico men’s basketball team won their first conference play win against the San José State University Spartans 86-70 Friday, Jan. 27 at The Pit. This win broke a seven-game losing streak and brought the team to 1-7 in conference and 8-13 overall.

The Spartans were also winless in conference play, and, like the Lobos, are in a rebuilding year with a new head coach and multiple new players.

The Spartans offense gets 41.1% of their points from three-point makes, the 15th-highest percentage in the country, according to KenPom. UNM head coach Richard Pitino said before the game that Spartans guard Omari Moore would need to be a focus of the Lobos defense.

UNM got off to a quick start as soon as they won the opening tip, scoring on their first four possessions and keeping the lead for the rest of the game. The scoring was evenly distributed throughout the first half — seven Lobos scored and four of them scored more than five points — and even though he wasn’t able to make a basket, Birima Seck was energetic, going after rebounds and running the floor.

The Spartans were just not able to shoot the ball well enough as a team to keep up with UNM in the first half. As expected, San José State shot the three-ball often and, by the end of the half, 16 of their 32 shots were from three-point range. When that’s the case, a team needs to shoot pretty well to stay in a game, and the Spartans’ abysmal 3-16 three-point shooting had a lot to do with them going into halftime down 43-32.

Pitino elected to play the second

Liam DeBonis / Daily Lobo / @LiamDebonis Lobos guard Javonté Johnson (#13) dives as he attempts a shot during a game against San Jose State on Friday, Jan. 28..

half with practically only one lineup: Jamal Mashburn Jr., Jaelen House, Javonté Johnson, Jay Allen-Tovar and K.J. Jenkins (only eight minutes went

to any other player).

The Spartans started attacking the rim much more aggressively and shot 12-16 on two-point attempts.

UNM was able to counter with impressive shooting of their own, including a perfect 8-8 from the

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LETTER

Native communities need legislative action to end predatory lending It is urgent that the legislature and Gov. Lujan Grisham enact House Bill 132 (Rep. Herrera, Speaker Egolf, and Rep. Garratt) during the 2022 session to reduce the maximum annual interest rate on small loans from 175%, one of the highest rates in the nation, to 36%.

This issue is personal to us, as the burden of predatory lending does not fall evenly on all New Mexicans.

Even though Native lands make up less than 10% of the state’s geography, 64% of predatory lenders in New Mexico operate within 15 miles of our reservation communities. It is our families, friends and neighbors who get caught in the cycle of insurmountable debt created by the high interest structure of predatory loans.

This cycle drains financial resources from individuals, families and our communities, and causes great personal and financial turmoil.

As proud board members of Think New Mexico, the nonpartisan statewide think tank whose 2020 report

made a compelling case for capping interest rates at 36%, we know that a 36% interest rate cap can work because both the federal government and other states have proven it.

Access to capital has always been a privilege available to the American people. It is this access that promotes entrepreneurship and innovation in individuals and businesses. A cap of 36% interest on high-risk loans is a fair and competitive rate as determined by the federal government.

In 2006, the Department of Defense recognized that predatory lending was impacting national security because so many members of the military were getting trapped by high-interest loans. So Congress and President George W. Bush, working in bipartisan fashion, passed the Military Lending Act, capping the annual interest rates of loans to military service members and their families at 36%. Thanks to this federal law, Native American service members and their families are already shielded from

predatory loans — but many families remain at risk.

At least 14 other states have enacted firm caps of 36% APR or less on car title and installment loans and also eliminated or strictly limited payday loans. Every time one of these laws is passed, high-cost lenders claim that communities like ours would lose access to credit. This is false.

In fact, responsible lenders have stayed in those states and continued to offer loans at 36% or less, low-cost loans from credit unions increased and community institutions have ensured that affordable credit is widely available. In South Dakota, for example, after interest rates were capped at 36% in 2016, two Native-led Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), the Black Hills Community Loan Fund and the Four Bands Community Loan Fund, provided millions of dollars in affordable loans to needy borrowers.

Here in New Mexico, we have 142 credit union branches across the

state, along with 17 CDFIs. A 2015 report from the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee noted that “Native Community Finance, a CDFI, is able to provide financial counseling and refinance loans at APRs less than 15% for subprime borrowers.” Credit unions and CDFIs are ready and able to meet the financial needs of our communities at affordable rates.

Last year, Native American leaders including the All Pueblo Council of Governors and the Navajo Nation Council testified in favor of legislation that would have lowered the maximum annual interest rate on small loans from 175% to 36%. The bill was also supported by the Native American Voters Alliance, the cities of Albuquerque and Las Cruces, and McKinley and Valencia counties, among many others.

We were very disheartened when last year’s bill was amended in the House to allow for interest rates of 99% on all loans under $1,100, more than two-thirds of all small loans. The

Senate understandably refused to support this excessive rate, which had been proposed by lobbyists for predatory lenders, meaning that reform was put off for another year and rates stayed at an unconscionable 175%.

Lujan Grisham and many legislators have expressed their support for Native nations and their desire to end predatory lending. The time has come for legislators, especially those representing the Native communities targeted by these lenders, to step up and pass House Bill 132 to finally put an end to this practice of financial exploitation.

LaDonna Harris is a citizen of the Comanche Nation and the founder of Americans for Indian Opportunity Notah Begay III is Navajo-San Felipe-Isleta Pueblo and the founder of NB3 Foundation

REVIEW

‘Passing’ explores the delicate and the dangerous

By Zara Roy

@zarazzledazzle Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut “Passing” deftly explores the ways in which we craft beauty out of race, class, gender expectations and the innermost desires that bubble beneath the surface within us all.

Released on Netflix on Oct. 27, “Passing” is based on a Nella Larson novel of the same name that follows Irene (Tessa Thompson) and Clare (Ruth Negga), two Black women in 1920s New York who are able to “pass” as white. Irene lives her life as a Black woman, while Clare is married with a child to a white, virulent racist who is unaware of her true heritage.

Shifting gears after a prolific 30-year acting career, Hall chose to adapt “Passing” because her own maternal grandfather, Norman Ewing, was a biracial man who also spent his life “passing” as white. Her mother spent much of her life without any clear answer on their own ancestry, which Ewing seemed to hide even from his child. Now, Hall’s film adaptation has already made a significant impact on numerous others since its release three months ago and is being predicted as an Oscar contender.

In the movie, though Irene faces clear, obvious dangers as a Black woman in the 1920s, she is able to find security in her family unit and comfortable class status. Clare, on the other hand, exudes peril as she attempts to float above binaries of race and class in a society which

enforces them strictly.

Each woman longs for what the other has. Clare basks in the comfort and security afforded to her in the little moments when she can be absorbed into Irene’s life. She gains the admiration of Irene’s children, charms Irene’s husband and social circle, and speaks in friendly terms with Irene’s maid, Zulena (Ashley Ware Jenkins).

Irene, on the other hand, is dazzled and bewildered by Clare’s beauty. The cause of this infatuation seems to be multi-faceted: Irene is fueled by jealousy by possible repressed romantic attraction and, perhaps most of all, a desire to understand how Clare finds it in her to evade the standards which Irene is bound to.

The two women’s increasing infatuation with each other’s lives is portrayed with stunning nuance

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by Thompson and Negga. Negga channels Daisy Buchanan, leaning into a glamorous and mutable sort of beauty which slips through your hands before you can ever reach it. Thompson’s portrayal of repression gives palpable tension to every scene. Together, the two chafe in perfect disharmony. The message is clear: these two aesthetic ideals cannot coexist.

The camera work makes itself integral to the story. The framing is tight and meticulous, and the action of the scene is often obscured from the viewer. Each woman is adhering to her own perfectly crafted aesthetic ideal, and the tense, teetering balance of both Clare and Irene’s picturesque lives is perfectly reflected through the language of the camera.

Nearly every element of the

film, in fact, revels in its own obscurity. The screenplay rejects any kind of definitive answer or obvious moral conclusion. Each interaction is jam-packed with numerous thematic elements which are left squarely in the hands of the viewer to come to any decisions on.

It’s the kind of movie that leaves an unscratchable itch, leaving you with burning questions about beauty or morality that haven't even come close to being answered in the near-century since the initial publication of the novel.

Zara Roy is the news editor at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @zarazzledazzle

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(LEFT) Lobos guard Jaelen House (#10) attempts a shot during a game against San José State on Friday, Jan. 28. (RIGHT) Fans cheer for the Lobos men’s basketball team after their win.

free-throw line. The Lobos weren’t able to pull away completely, but their lead was never less than eight points, and they were able to win 8670 without too much stress.

Jaelen House was sensational in what was his best game as a point guard. He scored 18 points, got sev-

en rebounds and tallied 13 assists.

The last time an NCAA Division I player got at least 18-7-13 was over a year ago. After the game, House said he felt that his team had been due for a win.

“I mean just praise the Lord honestly. I’ve been praying all the time;

that’s all I do is pray, so all I can do is give thanks to him,” House said, talking about the win.

Mashburn said the team was thrilled to finally get a conference win in The Pit. “We’ve let these fans down plenty of times so we’re just happy we

were able to get one,” Mashburn said. “We’ve got a lot of things we’ve got to get better at, as far as on the defensive side still, but this was definitely a step in the right direction. I’m glad we didn’t go the whole month of January without a win.”

Looking forward, Pitino said the

Lobos’ approach needs to be the same and that a focus on the record is no more important than it was before their win.

Pitino said the Lobos are a good offensive team that needs to still improve their defense, but said the players’ attitudes through a tough stretch of losses are what has kept them ready for a win like this.

“They’ve been ready to play almost every game, and that’s not as easy as you think,” Pitino said.

After their game on Monday, Jan. 31, the Lobos have a break until they travel to Colorado to compete against the United States Air Force Academy on Saturday, Feb. 5.

Matthew Salcido is the sports editor at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at sports@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @baggyeyedguy

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