UTEP New Year’s Day

with sports… the miners looking to celebrate the new year with a win in the conference usa opener vs rice… let’s go to the don .. the miners looking to make it 3 straight wins.. first half… miners on the break… dominic artis ahead to omega harris… money! later… how bout these moves by artis … shaken, bakin, stop me? mistaken with step back three… but the owls came to play… this is egor koulechov with the three… rice hanging around… still first half… nice ball movement and hooper vint finds terry winn… miners by 8 at the break… but they got just 2 points from their bench and rice strikes back… less than a minute to play… marcus evans … gets the friendly role… owls by 1… next possession… artis… drives and scoops it in and the miners lead by 1… rice still with a chance to win it… evans… no… andrew drone with the rebound but his shot is blocked by terry winn and the miners hold on! utep wins a thriller! 61-60 the final… “i felt like i had to make play. i saw coach wasn’t calling a timeout so i was trying to get in there because we were in the double bonus. the guy over bit, i side-stepped the big man and got it to go.” “gotta get the win sunday. gott get the win sunday or this one doesn’t matter. it doesn’t matter if we don’t win on sunday.” the sunday game is against north texas at the don… it’s an early tip off at 3.. the miners women’s team opened up the season in good form by