(Courtesy: UTEP Basketball) EL PASO, Texas – UTEP women’s basketball earned a hard-fought 63-55 victory against a solid Texas A&M – Kingsville side Tuesday night in the Don Haskins Center. Jane Asinde and Delma Zita finished in double-figures for the Miners. Asinde recorded her second double-double in as many games, leading all players
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — UTEP Football still have two games left, but with the Miners guaranteed their fifth losing season in Dana Dimel’s sixth year, questions have been circling as to to whether he will see out his contract. Dimel took over the program in 2018 and virtually had to rebuild it from the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — UTEP Football has had a season riddled with injuries, head coach Dana Dimel told ABC-7 on Monday that the team right now has around 25 injured players – none bigger than UTEP starting quarterback Gavin Hardison. ABC-7 learned on Monday that the QB1 had surgery on a UCL injury in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — All preseason UTEP Men’s Basketball head coach Joe Golding has said that this is the best team he’s had in his three seasons here – there’s more team chemistry, talent and that gritty mentality. All of it was on full display on Monday in the Miners 89-76 win over UC
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DALLAS, Texas (KVIA) — UTEP forward Elijah Jones was selected as the Conference USA Freshman of the Week, it was announced by the league office Monday. The 2023-24 CUSA Players of the Week awards are presented by Blenders Eyewear and are voted on by the league’s sports information directors. Jones is the first Miner to receive
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — UTEP Head Coach Joe Golding joined ABC-7’s Rachel Phillips live on ABC-7 at 5 ahead of the Miners (2-0) game with UC Santa Barbara (0-1) on Monday at the Don Haskins Center at 7 p.m. MT. The Miners have put up 100+ points in back-to-back games for the second time
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — UTEP women’s basketball defeated Kansas City 62-60 in a wire-to-wire thriller on Saturday afternoon in theDon Haskins Center. The Miners came back from 11 down in the third quarter to secure the victory. Jane Asinde and Erin Wilson both posted double-doubles in the win. Asinde led all players in multiple categories in her first
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — On “Senior Day”, the Miners swept Liberty inside Memorial Gym and preserved a perfect record at home (10-0) for the first time in program history to wrap up the regular season. UTEP clinched the No. 4 seed for the Conference USA Championship tournament. It is the 10th time that UTEP has
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(Courtesy: UTEP Athletics) EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball team broke the school record for scoring by drilling NAIA member USAO, 123-72, at the Don Haskins Center Thursday evening. The offensive outburst bests the prior standard of 121 (vs New Mexico Highlands, 12/30/00), which had stood for nearly 23 years. The Miners (2-0)
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP volleyball team is gearing up for their final two matches of the regular season, and there is a lot to play for down the stretch. UTEP will host the Liberty Flames on Friday at 6 p.m. and then again on Saturday at 1 p.m. The Miners are 18-8 overall,
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(Courtesy: UTEP Athletics) EL PASO, Texas – Sharpshooter and three-star prospect KJ Thomas (Canyon Randall HS) has signed a letter of intent to compete with the UTEP men’s basketball team beginning with the 2024-25 season, head coach Joe Golding announced Wednesday. A brief profile on Thomas and a quote from Golding follows below. KJ ThomasGuard6-1, 165Canyon Randall HSAmarillo, Texas
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(Courtesy: UTEP Athletics) EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP women’s basketball program opened its regular season campaign with a decisive 75-58 victory over Western New Mexico Monday evening. Four Miners scored in double figures, led by Mahri Petree with 16. Erin Wilson contributed 14, Luisa Vydrova had 13, and Adhel Tac tallied 10 in the
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball team started the season with a strong statement after scoring 120 points in the win against McMurry. The Miners start the season 1-0 as head coach Joe Golding begins his third season at the helm of the Miners. UTEP had 8 players in double figures. UTEP’s Elijah
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP Miners’ quest to go to a bowl game this season has come to an end. The Miners needed to win all three of their remaining games in order to become bowl eligible, but the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers put an end to that goal. Saturday night at the Sun Bowl,
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas – In what’s been a very low scoring affair at the Sun Bowl, the UTEP Miners are holding on to a 3-0 lead over the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers at halftime. With a 3-6 overall record, 2-3 (C-USA), the Miners need to win their remaining three games in order to become bowl eligible.
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP Miners will look to keep their bowl eligibility hopes alive when they host Western Kentucky Saturday at the Sun Bowl. With three games remaining this season, UTEP needs to win all three games in order to become bowl eligible. The Miners are coming off a dramatic win on the
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(Courtesy: UTEP Athletics) DALLAS, Texas – UTEP kicker Buzz Flabiano, following his game-winning field goal, was named the Conference USA Special Teams Player of the Week as announced by league officials on Monday. The 2023 CUSA Players of the Week awards are presented by Blenders Eyewear and are votes on by a panel of the league’s media.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The UTEP women’s basketball team defeated New Mexico Highlands in an exhibition game 73-55 Saturday afternoon behind an Adhel Tac double-double (14 points, 10 rebounds). Jane Asinde (13 points) and Veonce Powell (12 points) also scored in double figures for the Miners. The home side shot 46.7 percent (28-60)
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (KVIA) –The UTEP soccer program (2-11-4, 1-4-3 CUSA) tied 0-0 at Sam Houston (5-6-4, 3-3-2 CUSA) Saturday afternoon in the final match of the 2023 season. The teams were tied in total shots (six), but the Bearkats edged the Miners in shots on target (four to three). Emerson Kidd led all Miners
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MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (KVIA) — UTEP Volleyball dropped its final road match of the season to Middle Tennessee, 3-1, Saturday afternoon inside Alumni Memorial Gym. UTEP dropped to 17-8 overall and 9-5 in Conference USA play, while MTSU improved to 18-6 (9-3). “We’re leaving Tennessee with a pretty sore ego after being pushed around for two
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BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky (KVIA) — UTEP’s Victor Kibiego claimed a conference championship, while six other Miners earned all-conference honors at the 2023 Conference USA Cross Country Championships in Bowling Green, Ky., at the Riverview Golf Course at Hobson Grove Park hosted by WKU on Saturday morning. Kibiego is the first Miner to win the men’s individual
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Regular-season conference champions are no longer guaranteed spots in the National Invitation Tournament. The NIT Board of Managers tweaked its qualifying rules for its postseason tournament Friday, saying regular-season champs who do not win their conference tournament and are not otherwise selected to the NCAA Tournament will not receive an automatic bid
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas – The UTEP Miners are in a fight to keep their bowl eligibility hopes alive. That was evident Wednesday night in Huntsville, TX, after the Miners pulled off a 37-34 win over the Sam Houston Bearkats. It was a field goal late in the 4th quarter by UTEP kicker Buzz Flabiano that would
Continue Reading HUNTSVILLE, Texas – The UTEP Miners are in a fight to keep their bowl eligibility hopes alive. At halftime in Huntsville, TX, the Miners trail the Sam Houston Bearkats, 21-13. The Bearkats would strike first in the first quarter following a 28-yard touchdown run by Sam Houston running back John Gentry. Sam Houston would take
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(Courtesy: UTEP Athletics) DALLAS, Texas – Danika Washington and Kalia Kohler earned the ninth 2023 Conference USA Volleyball Player of the Week honors presented by Blenders Eyewear on Monday by the league office. Washington named CUSA Defensive Player of the Week Washington earns her second Defensive Player of the Week honor and was a dominating force for UTEP as
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — It’s been 56 years since the Miners won a bowl game. The year was 1967, the opponent was Ole Miss and UTEP got a 14-7 dub. After more than a half a century drought it really felt like this could be the year that all changes. Instead the Miners most
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EL PASO – The Miners remain undefeated at home as the UTEP Volleyball team won a sixth-consecutive match in a dominating victory sweep over LA Tech Saturday afternoon. The Orange and Blue have now won 20 consecutive sets inside Memorial Gym this season. UTEP improves to 17-6 overall and 9-3 in Conference USA play, while LA Tech
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(Courtesy: UTEP Athletics) EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Volleyball (15-6, 7-3 Conference USA) will host a pair of matches against LA Tech, Oct. 20-21, in Memorial Gym. Friday’s match is set for a 6 p.m. first serve, while Saturday’s contest is slated for a matinee beginning at noon. TICKETS For the matches in Memorial Gym,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The close proximity of NMSU and UTEP makes the Battle of I-10 one of the more unique college football rivalries. The mere lack of distance is one of the many reasons the game is so fun, but for some it also poses challenges – like who to root for! “Every
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EL PASO, Texas – The silver spade and brass spittoon are headed back to Las Cruces. The New Mexico State Aggies got the better of the UTEP Miners in the 100th edition of the Battle of I-10 by a final score of 28-7. This year also marked the first time since 1961 that the Battle of I-10
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