The 2025–26 New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team represented the University of New Mexico during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Lobos, led by first-year head coach Eric Olen, played their home games at The Pit in Albuquerque, New Mexico as a member of the Mountain West Conference.
Previous season The Lobos finished the 2024-25 season 27–8, 17–3 in Mountain West play to finish in first place in the conference standings for the first time since 2013. As the 1-seed in the Mountain West Tournament they would defeat 8-seed San Jose State in the Quarterfinals before falling in the Semifinals to 5-seed Boise State. They still however received an at-large bit to the NCAA Tournament and were placed as the 10-seed in the South region. The Lobos defeated 7-seed Marquette in the First Round, but fell in the Second Round to 2-seed #8 Michigan State to end their season. Following the season on March 25, head coach Richard Pitino was hired to replace Sean Miller as the head coach at Xavier.
Offseason Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure CJ Noland 0 G 6'4" 220 Graduate Waxahachie, TX Out of eligibility Braden Applehans 1 G 6'7" 195 Sophomore Blue Springs, MO Transferred to Drake Donovan Dent 2 G 6'2" 185 Junior Riverside, CA Transferred to UCLA Tru Washington 3 G 6'4" 195 Sophomore Phoenix, AZ Transferred to Miami (FL) Kayde Dotson 4 F 6'2" 180 Freshman Beaumont, TX Transferred to Loyola Chicago Atiki Ally Atiki 6 F 6'10" 210 Senior Mwanza, Tanzania Out of eligibility Ibrahima Sacko 7 F 6'6" 240 Sophomore Conakry, Guinea Transferred to New Mexico State Filip Borovićanin 8 F 6'9" 220 Junior Belgrade, Serbia Transferred to Xavier Quinton Webb 11 G 6'6" 200 Sophomore San Bernardino, CA Transferred to Cal State Northridge Daniel Thomas 13 F 6'8" 215 Freshman Dallas, TX Transferred to UNC Asheville Deraje Agbaosi 21 F 6'7" 215 Junior Union Township, NJ Transferred to Cal State LA Mustapha Amzil 22 F 6'9" 215 Senior Helsinki, Finland Signed with KB Trepça Nelly Junior Joseph 23 C 6'10" 245 Senior Benin City, Nigeria Signed with SIG Strasbourg Jovan Milicevic 24 F 6'10" 260 Freshman Toronto, ON, Canada Transferred to Xavier Shane Douma-Sanchez 32 G 6'1" 175 Freshman Laguna, NM Transferred to Lower Columbia Dylan Chavez 35 G 6'5" 185 Freshman Albuquerque, NM Entered transfer portal
Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous college Kevin Patton Jr. 0 G 6'8" 200 Junior Murrieta, CA USC Deyton Albury 1 G 6'3" 190 Senior Nassau, Bahamas Utah State Tajavis Miller 2 F 6'4" 200 Senior Lubbock, TX North Dakota State Luke Haupt 3 G 6'7" 215 Senior San Diego, CA Point Loma Antonio Chol 5 F 6'9" 215 Junior Buffalo, NY Garden City CC Chris Howell 8 G 6'6" 215 Senior San Diego, CA UC San Diego Kallai Patton 11 C 6'4" 180 Freshman Murrieta, CA USC Milos Vicentic 31 F 6'7" 210 Graduate Belgrade, Serbia UC San Diego JT Rock 35 C 7'1" 255 Sophomore Sioux Falls, SD Iowa State
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Schedule and results
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