El Paso Times · Jan 29, 2023
UTEP's offensive struggles continue in competitive road loss to UNT
The UTEP men's basketball team is good at many things.
To their great detriment, what the Miners are worst at is putting the ball in the net. That makes winning a challenge and despite UTEP's grit, tenacity and defense, they fell to the nation's No. 3 defensive team, North Texas, 52-42 Saturday night in Denton.
The Miners shot 36 percent, made 2-of-15 3s and 8-of-13 free throws (actually better than their season average from the line) and turned the ball over 17 times. After hanging within a point of the second best team in Conference USA at the midpoint of the second half, they fell to 4-6 in C-USA and 11-10 overall.
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