The Pit: Awesome from the start

Albuquerque Journal sports editor LeRoy Bearman led his game advance story with the following: “You’re going to like the University of New Mexico’s new 14,800-seat basketball arena.” It wasn’t the venerable Bearman’s most fearless prediction, but one of his most accurate. On Dec. 1, 1966, a new era of UNM men’s basketball began. That night, […]