Miners coach Tim Floyd announced his retirement after a loss on Monday. Felix Chavez/El Paso Times
Long ago and far away that old point guard John Greenleaf Whittier summed up UTEP's 97th basketball season without ever seeing it:
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, it might have been."
UTEP began this season filled with energy and enthusiasm, nothing but high hopes and grand dreams out there at the edge of the high beams. They took the exhibition trip to Costa Rica, they hiked up Mt.