SportsPulse: Texas Tech vs. Michigan State? USA TODAY Sports' Scott Gleeson details how each team can reach the national title game and who ultimately will come out on top. USA TODAY
It's been 53 years since Texas Western became the only team in the state to win an NCAA men's basketball championship.
It's a title fans of the school now known as the University of Texas at El Paso have celebrated every year since — especially when the last team from Texas is inevitably knocked out of the NCAA Tournament every March or April.
But this year, as Texas Tech begins its run at the Final Four, that knockout seems less inevitable, and UTEP fans are .