UTEP Men's Basketball Tips Tonight
by asalom on Nov 3, 2011 1:25 PM MDT
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PrintThe UTEP Men's basketball team opens up 2011-12 action with an exhibition contest against Eastern New Mexico at 7:00 MT tonight in the Don Haskins Center. The team held an intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday, but this will be an opportunity for us fans, as well as the coaches, to really find out where this young team is at.
The Miners welcome 10 newcomers onto the team, including 8 freshman, one juco transfer, and one Division 1 transfer. The team also brings back three players from last year's squad who played significant minutes. Gabe McCulley, the lone senior, is out recovering from knee surgery, and will be out for likely another 6 weeks. Sophomore John Bohannon, who tweaked a hamstring in practice, did not play in Saturday's scrimmage, and its still unclear if he'll play tonight. Sophomore Mike Perez who scored 18 points on Saturday, is healthy and will be in action tonight.
Eastern New Mexico finished the 2010-11 season with a 13-14 record, and they return three seniors who scored in double digits from that squad. UTEP Coach Tim Floyd expects to use many different lineups, and expects to be subbing a lot as well "based on mistakes". Floyd said, "We didn't have to do that a lot last year with a veteran squad, but these kids need to come out of the game, understand what they did wrong, go back into the game and try to do it better".
Tickets to both tonight's exhibition game against Eastern New Mexico, as well as Saturday's exhibition against Sul Ross St. remain on sale for only $10. UTEP opens up its regular season slate next Friday against UTSA in the Don Haskins Center. It should be an interesting year, and I can't wait to get it started. GO MINERS!!!
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There's a stream to the game...I just tuned it, but it's halftime.
http://apps.ohlulz.com/ncaa/flash.php?lulz=rtmp://cp98724.live.edgefcs.net:1935/live&id=utep_m-baskbl@31464
Jesus christ..I was watching and figured they were up huge or something and were just coasting..
Because they never gave out the score..
Wow.
by TooLegitToQuit on Nov 3, 2011 9:28 PM MDT up reply actions
I mean obviously its not at all what you want to see, but its not the end of the world.
This team is extremely young, and it really showed. At the same time, there were some flashes, and as they continue to grow and improve…the results will come. Also, CTF’s main concern was definitely not winning this game. Not say he didn’t want to win, but his agenda was OBVIOUSLY finding out where each and every player stands. He literally had two groups of 5 that alternated playing 5 minutes each for the first half, and 10 minutes each in the second half. He never made a single individual sub, it was always 5 for 5 and timed no matter what was going on. If he really wanted to, he could’ve coached this team to a 10 or 15 point win, but that just wasn’t what he wanted out of this game.
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