New Mexico has hired UC San Diego’s Eric Olen as its next basketball coach. Olen will replace Richard Pitino, who left to ...

Eric Olen has been hired as the new men's basketball coach at New Mexico, leaving UC San Diego after five seasons. He takes ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico hired UC San Diego's Eric Olen on Sunday as its next basketball coach. Olen will replace ...

Eric Olen took over as UC San Diego’s head basketball coach in 2013. A few years later the Tritons began their transition ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico hired UC San Diego's Eric Olen on Sunday as its next basketball coach. Olen will replace Richard Pitino, who left to become Xavier's coach on Tuesday.

New Mexico needed to fill that vacancy. The Lobos made their move Sunday morning, hiring UC San Diego head coach Eric Olen. New Mexico's hire completes a series of Mountain West coaching changes.

On Saturday, New Mexico named Eric Olen as head coach of the Lobos’ basketball program. Olen began coaching at UC San Diego in 2004, spending the past 12 seasons as the Tritons’ head coach.

UNM has reached a deal to hire the University of California, San Diego’s Eric Olen to replace Richard Pitino less than a week after Pitino took the job at Xavier. Details of Olen’s contract ...

Eric Olen has been hired as the new men's basketball coach at New Mexico, leaving UC San Diego after five seasons. He takes over for Richard Pitino, who left Albuquerque to take the opening at ...