The New Mexico men’s basketball team has found a replacement for departed head coach Richard Pitino.  According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, the Lobos and UC San Dieg

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

The guys talk about the expectations Olen faces at UNM and the challenge he'll have to build a coaching staff and re-tool the roster.

Two questions I wanted to ask of new University of New Mexico men's basketball coach Eric Olen at Tuesday's introductory news conference, but due to time constraints chose not to: 1: Coach, how often during your lifetime have you mistakenly been called Eric Olsen?