El Paso Times · Jan 26, 2018
UAB patiently chases down UTEP for another Miner loss
Start of UTEP game against North Texas Thursday night Rudy Gutierrez / El Paso Times
Buy PhotoIt was something like fool's gold.
UTEP bombed in 3-pointers early to soar away with the lead. But, gradually and surely — as 3-pointers tend to do — the long range shots stopped dropping.
UAB, meanwhile, was scoring deep in that paint, down close where the shots are a tad friendlier, where they tend to keep dropping.
And slowly and surely the Blazers ran down the Miners.
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UAB defeated UTEP 85-78 Thursday night in Birmingham's Bartow Arena, a crowd of 3,013 looking on.