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Get To Know A Marquette Basketball Opponent: UTEP Miners

Name: The University of Texas at El Paso

Location: El Paso, Texas, obviously

Where is El Paso in the state, anyway? Well, it’s barely in Texas from two points of view. El Paso, which is of course Spanish for “The Paso,” is a twin city with Cuidad Juarez in Mexico, as the two are right up against each other with just the Rio Grande separating them. El Paso is also the western most city in Texas, and that’s saying something. El Paso is essentially on the same longitude line as Albuquerque, New Mexico, and it’s dead center of that state, or at least close enough to make the point here.