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FRISCO, Texas – The (4W) UTEP men’s basketball team dropped a heartbreaker in overtime to (1E) Middle Tennessee, 66-59, In the quarterfinals of the 2022 Heritage Landscape Supply Group Conference USA Men’s Basketball Championships at the Star Thursday evening. It marked the first OT game at the C-USA tournament for UTEP since the 2012 league championships. The Miners

FRISCO, Texas – Charlene Mass split a pair of free throws with 3.8 seconds left in overtime to lead No. 7 UTSA to a 58-57 win over No. 6 UTEP in the first round of the 2022 Heritage Landscape Supply Group C-USA Basketball Championships on Tuesday night in the Ford Center at The Star. In a physical

EL PASO, Texas – UTEP men’s basketball guard Souley Boum lights up whatever room he’s in, and he loves being around people. If you really want to connect with him, though, basketball is his first and true love. “(Basketball) is all I know,” Boum said. “I started watching basketball and started playing when I was a little boy. Kobe

EL PASO, Texas – The Willie Cager Endowed Basketball Scholarship was announced by the Miner Athletic Club on Friday. It is being funded by donor Don Scott in honor of Cager. “Willie is an amazing individual,” Scott said. “His heart is as big as anything. He wants to leave a legacy behind. I couldn’t think of

EL PASO, Texas – Keonte Kennedy came off the bench to score 16 points while Jamal Bieniemy registered a double-double (12 points, career-high 10 assists) to help lead the UTEP men’s basketball team to a 70-67 victory against Rice in front of 4,645 fans at the Don Haskins Center Thursday evening. The Miners (17-12, 10-7 C-USA) completed

DALLAS, Texas – UTEP’s Sophie Delfosse was named the Conference USA Women’s Golfer of the Week on Wednesday by the league office. A native of Valenciennes, France, Delfosse started her spring campaign by leading the Miners throughout the GCU Invitational, shooting a 7-over par 223 (73, 74, 76) to finish in a tie for 26th out of

EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Director of Athletics Jim Senter announced on Tuesday that rifle head coach Austin Litherland will not return for the 2022-23 season. Under Litherland’s leadership, the Miners posted their best air rifle (2,317), smallbore (2,271) and aggregate (4,588) averages during the 2019-20 season.   He has served as UTEP’s rifle coach for the last four years. “We

EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball team will conclude the 2021-22 regular season by hosting Conference USA West Division leader North Texas on Saturday (March 5).  All seats are just $10 in four sections (Bronze, Copper, Green, Navy) on “Fan Appreciation Day.” The Miners (16-12, 9-7 C-USA) and the Mean Green (22-4, 15-1

EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball team (16-11, 9-6) will shoot for its third win in the past four games when it plays host to UAB (21-7, 11-4 at 7 p.m. MT Saturday. The game is the first of three straight at home to close out the regular season for the Miners, with

EL PASO, Texas – UTEP men’s basketball redshirt-junior Tydus Verhoeven comes from a basketball family. His mom, Jodi, played at Fresno State, and she would have had the opportunity to compete for the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks. She gave all of that up, though, when she became pregnant with Tydus, and she never returned to play competitively again. “I learned

MURFREESBORO, Tennessee – Souley Boum registered a game-high 24 points, but the UTEP men’s basketball team was upended at Conference USA East Division leader Middle Tennessee, 77-59, Monday evening. The setback halts the Miners’ (16-11, 9-6 C-USA) two-game winning streak-both on the road- while also extending the Blue Raiders’ (20-7, 11-3 C-USA) home winning streak to 15

HATTIESBURG, Mississippi – Jamal Bieniemy (19 points), Tydus Verhoeven (13 points), Souley Boum (12 points), Jorell Saterfield (12 points) and Christian Agnew (11 points), all hit double figures in scoring to help lead the UTEP men’s basketball team an 84-70 road vanquishing of Southern Miss Saturday afternoon. UTEP finished the game 14-26 from 3-point range, one shy

EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Football Head Coach Dana Dimel announced that Dante Barnett will join the staff as the program’s new safeties coach on Friday. “I’m excited to join the UTEP family and I already enjoy the team culture that is being built here between the players and coaches,” Barnett said. “This is a special

EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball team (14-9, 7-4 C-USA) will lock up with Marshall (8-16, 1-10 C-USA) at a special 1 p.m. tipoff time on Sunday (Feb. 13). The Miners had their six-game winning streak snapped last time out, 66-58, at C-USA West Division leading North Texas on Feb. 7.  The Thundering Herd have

EL PASO, Texas – UTEP stormed back from down 19 in the third quarter to make a late push in a 68-65 loss at Louisiana Tech on Monday night in the Thomas Assembly Center. A flight cancelation on Sunday forced the Miners (13-9, 5-7 Conference USA) into same-day travel that featured a 4:35 a.m. MT loading of the bus

EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Head Coach Dana Dimel announced Drew Liddle, a former Kansas State football player, as the program’s new tight ends/fullbacks coach on Monday. “Drew played for us at Kansas State, came up through our system as a graduate assistant, then a quality control coach and was then called on to be the

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Veronika Lebisova and Carlotta Mencaglia both posted victories in singles action in the UTEP tennis team’s 5-2 neutral-site setback to Youngstown State on Friday. Lebisova rolled in straight sets over Julia Marko, 6-3, 6-4, at No. 3 singles while Mencaglia rallied back to knock off Lili Minich, 4-6, 7-5, 1-0 (10-5). “Today was