Tim Floyd is well known for his defensive principles and defensive tricks, but this season he's deferred some of those duties to assistant coaches Bobby Braswell and Phil Johnson.
The results?
UTEP has won six of their last seven, they lead C-USA in field goal percentage defense during league play, and have not allowed a fast break point in the past three games, all wins against really good teams. They’ve also knocked off three of the top four teams in C-USA over the past three games, and host the fourth in that group this coming Thursday.
Tim Floyd promised he'd keep working, and try to figure it all out during UTEP's 12-game losing streak which looked like the Miners would be lucky to sniff out five total wins the rest of the season sitting at 2-13 overall.