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North Texas will leave the Sun Belt to join Conference USA, a source close to the program said Thursday. The source also said that Louisiana Tech and Florida International will be joining the Mean Green in Conference USA, along with UT-San Antonio, whose move was approved by the University of Texas System regents Thursday mornin

UTEP's own Julyan Stone is expected to get his 2nd career NBA start tonight against the Dallas Mavericks.

UPDATE:It's official, Memphis to Big East beginning in 13'-14'. Officials from both the Big East and the University of Memphis have confirmed that the Tigers will be joining the conference in all sports beginning in 2013. An official announcement is expected to come tomorrow.

"In an interview with a small group of reporters, Barbee declined to utter more than a few words when asked about Moultrie or his background, nor did he even use Moultrie's name."

Pretty cool read at DenverStiffs, in regards to Julyan Stone about to receive plenty of playing time with their starting point guard Ty Lawson out with injury.

@NealNieves 2012 Forward Anthony January (Taft HS) just confirmed with me that he has de-committed from UTEP.

This is why SBNation is awesome- first you can get a take on the upcoming New Mexico Bowl from UTEP's perspective (here) and then you can go to Vanquish the Foe and see a BYU perspective with more number crunching than you'll find anywhere else. Sabbi over at VTF's preview analyzes UTEP's and BYU's statistics during each team's winning half and losing half of the season- interesting take on it.