Head coach Tim Floyd created a spark for his Miners—a spark that eventually led the Miners to their first exhibition win of the season over Sul Ross State, 78-70 at the Don Haskins Center on Saturday afternoon.
The spark that Floyd lit was a buildup of the referee’s choices of foul calls. In the first half, UTEP got called for 18 fouls (34 total fouls on UTEP) and found themselves tied with SRSU at 34 at the half.
UTEP’s transfer guard Keith Frazier electrified the crowd with a putback dunk but was called for a technical foul right after for slapping the backboard and holding on to the rim for too long in the opening minutes of the second half.