LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The Lobos are doing well in the Mountain West Tournament, fresh off a blowout win over Air Force to kick things off.

A couple in attendance have seen it all as longtime supporters – and players – of Lobo basketball.

“Bob King recruited me out of Illinois in 1971 off a cornfield. I flew out to Albuquerque, never seen a mountain before in my life. He brings me, shows me The Pit,” Bob Toppert said.

His wife, Linda Toppert, meanwhile, was a Sandia High School graduate. She went to UNM and played for a couple of years.

There, she met Bob.

“I need a date to a sorority dance so I asked him to go on this date. Come to find out later, he went home and called his mother back in Illinois. He said, ‘This girl invited me on a date, I think she’s hustling me!'” Linda recalled.

Bob and Linda recalled some of their favorite Lobo memories in the video above.