A boisterous New Mexico crowd cheered “The Pit North!” as the Lobos played Air Force on the Falcons’ home court.  The energy was fun, but the result was far from it.  Four days after taking down Colorado State on Tuesday, the Lobos continued its hot streak with a 91-49 blowout victory over Air Force at Clune Arena. After leading 45-22 at the half, New Mexico ran away with the game in the second half Saturday where it led by as many as 44 points in the final two minutes.  The Lobos beat the Rams 80-70 on Tuesday at Moby Arena and stayed in Colorado until Saturday to face Air Force. The Falcons (3-13, 0-5 Mountain West) had 21 turnovers, 15 of those in the first half, and faced shooting woes against the best defense in the league with 42% shooting from the field, 47% from the foul line, and 17% (3 of 18) from 3-point range. “With the shooting, (New Mexico) is a really good team on defense,” senior Kolby Gilles said. “They do a really good job at taking us out of our offense. As we get more confident and don’t let the other team rattle us we will find a better rhythm. It’s not necessarily about being able to make a shot, it’s more the situations we find ourselves.”  Meanwhile, the Lobo offense couldn’t be contained, particularly freshman Jake Hall who led four players in double figures with a season-high tying 24 points on 7 of 14 shooting, including 5 of 10 from 3-point range. New Mexico shot 48% from the field, above its season average of 45.3%, and had 14 threes from six players.  The Lobos 42-point win is their largest Mountain West road margin of victory and second largest overall. The Lobos are on a three-game win streak and sit third in the conference behind Utah State and San Diego State.  Air Force has struggled in ‘being comfortable’ in the half-court this season, which has only been harder to find playing back-to-back high-level teams.  “Our comfort level is not high,” coach Joe Scott said. “It’s been a major struggle for me and the team to find what is going to help us be comfortable on the offensive end in the half-court after we have broken the press. We have not been able to find anything. “We have made changes and changes can be uncomfortable, but it’s to find what makes us comfortable. Comfort and calm leads to confidence. It’s a struggle because we are playing really good teams … but each struggle provides more information to make progress. That’s going to go a long way towards us playing better.” One of those changes is in the lineup, with Air Force putting in six different starting lineups this season. Saturday was the third consecutive game with a different starting lineup. Air Force led for the first minute of the first half with a 5-0 run, but New Mexico quickly responded and led for the rest of the half including a 16-0 run. The Lobos, who had nine turnovers Saturday, gained 14 points from the Falcons’ 15 turnovers in the first half.  Saturday was Air Force’s ninth straight loss, and the Falcons seek their first conference win of the season at San Jose State on Tuesday at 8 p.m. MT.  “We want to be more comfortable on offense,” Gilles said. We take ourselves out of the game when we don’t know what we are doing or the other team takes us out. We will get back to work and hope to be more confident going into Tuesday.” ...read more read less