If the message hasn't already been received around the conference, the message was heard loud and clear after tonight.
The message: Keitha Adams has a really, really good basketball team.
UTEP came out strong, weathered a fourth quarter comeback, and improved to 12-1, and 3-0 in conference play with a 84-73 win over a rebuilding, but prominent conference power Middle Tennessee.
Jenzel Nash scored a game high 26 points, on 10-of-11 shooting from the free throw line, Cameasha Turner was 7-of-7 from the free throw line, adding 20 points and five rebounds giving UTEP their seventh straight win at home.