Last season the Miners men’s basketball team had no trouble putting the ball through the hoop as the offense average 77.4 points per game and the team scored eighty points in fifteen games last season—one game shy of tying a school record. The 2015-2016 Miners’ squad also set a record in UTEP’s storied history for most three-point field goals made in a season (223).
The problems that were troubling the Miners last season came from the defensive end of the ball. Head coach Tim Floyd’s defense surrendered 74.9 points per game to their enemies, which ranked his Miners outside of the top 250 in scoring defense in all of college basketball.