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UTEP Basketball’s official Twitter account confirmed that UTEP will open their quarterfinal match up at 1 p.m. Mountain Time on Thursday March 9th in Birmingham, Alabama.
American Sports Network will also stream all of the tournament games on their website.
Miners will play at 1:00 mountain time on Thursday. Game will be televised on @LiveOnASN, in El Paso KFOX ch. 14 or over the air CBS 4.2.
— UTEPMBB (@UTEP_MBB) March 5, 2017
Rice is the 5th seed, and they will play 12th seed Southern Miss on Wednesday. Winner gets UTEP in Thursday’s quarterfinal.
Game time will be released tonight but Miners will face winner of Rice/Southern Miss on Thursday per C-USA office. #minerstrong
— UTEPMBB (@UTEP_MBB) March 5, 2017
Here is the official bracket.