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Freshman Lathon, an ESPN star already, makes mark for UTEP men's basketball

More than an hour after hitting the biggest shot of his life, a miracle game-winning buzzer beater against Rice on Saturday night, UTEP freshman guard Jordan Lathon was celebrating the best way he knew how.

In an almost empty Don Haskins Center, with a few workers cleaning up cups and hot dog wrappers and emptying trash, with his corner jumper that completed a 96-foot, 0.5-second scramble starting to play on televisions across the nation, Lathon was 15 feet away from that fateful rim.

He was shooting free throws. Between that and getting treatment for a hamstring that caused him to miss games two weeks ago, he got home after 11 p.