EL PASO, Texas – Destiny Thurman scored a career-high 30 points and UTEP led by as many as 21 on the way to a 75-62 win over North Texas on Thursday night in the Don Haskins Center. Thurman tallied 15 points in each half, going 9-of-17 from the field, 4-of-7 from beyond the perimeter and 8-of-9 from
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP’s Greg Yellin was named the Conference USA Men’s Golfer of the Week as announced by league officials on Wednesday. The El Paso product and graduate of Coronado High Schoool shot 6-under par, 210 (71, 69, 70) and placed 13th (out of 80 competitors) at the Arizona Intercollegiate on Jan. 24-25 at the Tucson Country Club
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Head Coach Dana Dimel announced 15 student-athletes who signed National Letters of Intent and will don the Orange and Blue of the Miners. Joining the program are WR Kelly Akharaiyi (Tyler JC), OL A.J. Barton (Lakeview Centennial HS), DB D’Angelo Bellamy (Modesto JC), WR Marcus Bellon (Santa Barbara CC), DB Amier Boyd-Matthews (Mountain Pointe HS), K/P Wilton “Buzz” Flabiano (Plano East HS), QB Jake
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball game at North Texas on Thursday (Feb. 3) has been postponed to 6 p.m. MT/ 7 p.m. CT Monday (Feb. 7) due to inclement weather. The Miners will now play at Rice as originally scheduled at 1 p.m. MT/2 p.m. CT on Saturday (Feb. 5) before facing off against the Mean Green on Monday.
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EL PASO, Texas – Souley Boum poured in a season-high 32 points (two shy of career high) while Tydus Verhoeven had a double-double (14 points, career-best 13 rebounds) and Jamal Bieniemy (13 points, six assists) and Alfred Hollins (11 points) also reached double figures in scoring to help the UTEP men’s basketball team surge past
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MIAMI, Florida – FIU led from start to finish in a 72-45 win over UTEP on Saturday afternoon in the Ocean Bank Convocation Center. The Panthers (11-7, 3-4 Conference USA) jumped out to a lead of 16 after the first 10 minutes and never looked back to hand the Miners (12-7, 4-5 Conference USA) the road loss.
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EL PASO, Texas – Senior Alfred Hollins tipped in a shot at the buzzer to lift the UTEP men’s basketball team to an exhilarating 70-68 win over Conference USA East Division leader Florida Atlantic at the Don Haskins Center Thursday evening. Souley Boum poured in 28 points, Jamal Bieniemy fought through early foul trouble to add 16
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Head Coach Joe Golding has always said that his first year is about establishing a culture within his program, while preaching patience with wins. With how the last two weeks have gone for the Miners, it appears both could be coming to fruition. The Miners (11-8, 4-3 C-USA) have won
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EL PASO, Texas – ABC-7 spoke with UTEP head basketball coach Joe Golding as the team prepares for another round of conference games this week. The Miners will welcome two opponents from the Sunshine State to the Don Haskins Center. Florida Atlantic will take on the Miners Thursday at 7:00 p.m., and then on Saturday
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP freshman Jordani Woodley, who set a program record in the men’s 60-meter hurdles in his UTEP debut, was named the Conference USA Male Indoor Track Athlete of the Week as announced by league officials on Tuesday. All C-USA weekly award are presented by Surf and Turf Golf. Woodley blazed the track this
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas – UTEP Head Coach Joe Golding knew exactly what his 59-54 win over UTSA meant on Sunday. “That’s a winning streak!” said an excited Golding on ESPN radio postgame. “Two games isn’t a winning streak, three games is.” The Miners not only secured their third straight win, but continued to show poise
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Freshmen Jordani Woodley and Celina Johannsen set school records in their collegiate debuts, and a total of 11 Miners turned in top three performances as the UTEP track and field team completed its first indoor meet of 2022 and first since 2020 on Saturday afternoon at the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Director of Athletics Jim Senter announced on Friday that Beach Volleyball will join the Miners’ sport lineup in the spring of 2023. The addition of Beach will give UTEP a total of 17 Division I teams. I t marks UTEP’s first sport addition since softball began competition in 2004. UTEP Volleyball Coach Ben Wallis will also serve as the
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EL PASO, Texas – After being down by as many as 13 points, the UTEP men’s basketball team (10-8, 3-3) roared back to topple UTSA (7-12, 0-6), 69-64, at the Don Haskins Center Thursday evening. Jorell Saterfield poured in a career-best 18 points, all on three pointers, helping spark the second-half comeback. Boum scored a game-high 22
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP tennis team will christen its dual-match season with a match at perennial power Texas Tech (11 a.m. MT/12 p.m. CT Friday) before returning home to welcome Western New Mexico (12 p.m. MT Sunday) for its home opener at El Paso Tennis Club at 12 p.m. MT Sunday. Admission is free for UTEP’s
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP Miners will continue Conference USA play this week as they prepare for a home-and-home series against UT-San Antonio. When you look at the records for both teams, this should be a matchup that favors the Miners. UTEP enters the series with an overall record of 9-8, 2-3 in C-USA,
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP spring semester began Tuesday, but students returned to the classroom at a time when Covid-19 cases continue to rise in the El Paso community. UTEP President Heather Wilson sent out a guide for staff members. In the letter, Wilson repeated the importance of protecting one another. “We value in-person
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NORFOLK, Virginia – For a moment, it looked like a familiar story for suffering UTEP basketball fans. But under new UTEP coach Joe Golding, this Miners’ team has a refreshing fight. They showed it on Saturday night at Old Dominion, and the result is the team’s first C-USA road win in seven tries. Jamal Bieniemy
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – Jamal Bieniemy (game-high 21 points) and Souley Boum (14 points) both hit double figures in scoring, and UTEP (8-8, 1-3 C-USA) defended with a vigor in a 66-53 setback at Charlotte (8-5, 1-0 C-USA) Thursday evening. UTEP limited the 49ers to 40.0 percent from the floor and forced 17 turnovers, but the home
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EL PASO, Texas – It’s always emotional when Chapin and Andress get together on the hardwood, but it was more so on Tuesday night with the man largely responsible for the game’s importance not physically present on the sideline. Andress Head Coach Jim Forbes is currently hospitalized due to complications from COVID-19, and the entire
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EL PASO, Texas – Following a home loss to Louisiana Tech last Thursday, Joe Golding promised changes were coming to his UTEP men’s basketball team. On Saturday night vs. Southern Mississippi, Golding delivered and so did his team. Sahring the ball with ease, the Miners scored at will and dominated the Golden Eagles wire-to-wire in
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EL PASO, Texas – Jamal Bieniemy poured in a game and career-high 28 points and UTEP (7-7, 0-2 C-USA) refused to go away quietly in a 64-52 setback to LA Tech (12-3, 3-0 C-USA) inside the Don Haskins Center Thursday evening. The Miners kept the Bulldogs to 16 points below their seasonal scoring average (80.1 ppg) entering
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EL PASO, Texas – It’s no question that UTEP is fighting for head coach Joe Golding to begin his first year in charge. But his team will need to fight even harder over their upcoming two-game C-USA homestand with key contributors missing out. The Miners (7-6, 0-1) are set to welcome in Louisiana Tech on
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP women’s basketball games scheduled for this Thursday and Saturday at Louisiana Tech and Southern Miss have been postponed due to multiple positive COVID-19 cases and subsequent contact tracing in the Miner program. No immediate decision has been made about the potential rescheduling of these games. The Miners are next scheduled to return to
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EL PASO, Texas – For Jacob Cowing, it came down to going home. The former UTEP WR announced his commitment to Arizona via Instagram on Monday, giving the Wildcats a first-team All-C-USA wideout. He picked the Wildcats over a final five of Oregon, Florida, South Carolina, and LSU. A native of Maricopa, AZ, Cowing will
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Souley Boum tallied 20 points (17 in second half), Jorell Saterfield came off the bench to score a career-high 15 points and Jamal Bieniemy notched eight points and a season-high eight assists, but UTEP (7-6, 0-1 C-USA) was dispatched at league preseason favorite UAB (11-3, 1-0 C-USA), 75-62, in the Conference USA
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball team’s scheduled match-up at Middle Tennessee on Jan. 1 has been postponed due to positive COVID-19 tests within the Blue Raider program. All of the MT players have been vaccinated. Conference USA will work to reschedule the game at a later date. The Miners will open C-USA
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EL PASO, Texas – Another UTEP wide receiver has decided to leave the program. Thursday, Tyrin Smith confirmed on Twitter that he’s entering the transfer portal. Smith was the number three receiver for the Miners, finishing the 2021 season with 33 receptions, 570 receiving yards and 4 touchdowns. Smith is the second UTEP receiver to
Continue Reading UPDATE, Dec. 23: UTEP’s star wide receiver Jacob Cowing said Thursday that he had received eight offers after announcing earlier this week that he was entering the transfer portal, surprising Miner fans who were expecting him to return for next season. Of those eight offers, seven were from “Power 5” conference schools. The Chandler, Arizona
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EL PASO, Texas — Defending champ UTEP fell to Bradley 73-66 on Wednesday night in the championship game of the Sun Bowl Invitational. Bradley rallied to overcome a 14-point second-half deficit to win the tourney title in a game that saw six ties and seven lead changes – with big scoring runs from both teams. “We had
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