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UTEP almost caught lightning 25 years ago

It was a special moment in the storied history of a basketball program, one of those moments when an old coach and a group of young men almost, almost, almost caught lightning in a bottle.

Twenty-five years is a quarter of a century and 25 years is a healthy chunk of a lifetime and 25 years crawls past and 25 years flies past.

It seems so long ago and yet it seems like yesterday when those boys of 1992 made their exciting run, when they bounced the region's top seed and No. 2 team in the nation out of the NCAA Tournament, when they almost danced their way to the Final Four.