Lobo guard Uriah Tenette is ready to prove himself

Lobo hoops transfer portal tracker The Journal is keeping tabs on all offseason roster moves for the Lobo men’s basketball team — who is leaving, who is returning, who hasn’t decided — on its Transfer Portal Tracker (CLICK HERE). Uriah Tenette is driven. The 5-foot-10 UNM Lobos freshman point guard seems to have a deeply engrained desire to keep moving toward a made-up destination; a finish line, of sorts, that keeps moving further away.

The guy who was too small to be a football star became a multi-year, playoff-winning all-state starting quarterback in Prescott, Arizona. The guy who was too small to star in a sport dominated by players with height, landed a Division I scholarship after scoring 2,752 points in high school and more than holding his own with the top-ranked recruits in the country. The guy who was too small to ever be ready as a true freshman for big minutes as a college player, won his team's preseason dunk contest at the Lobo Howl, averaged more than 10 points a game and led a 26-win NIT semifinalists team in plus/minus stats this season (UNM outscored opponents more with Tenette on the floor than any other player on the roster).

He proved he belongs. And as the keys to the Lobo basketball team have been given to him to be the program's point guard leader heading into his sophomore season, Tenette says he hasn't proven anything yet. "Me and my dad have conversations about it like, I need to get on a whole other level," Tenette said after announcing on Tuesday he's coming back to UNM next season — an announcement that is now a part of a basketball circle of life that centers around whether players are coming or going.

This past season, Tenette averaged 10. 6 points, 2. 8 rebounds, 2.