Down to only nine scholarship players, including two over 6-7, the UTEP men’s basketball team battled NM State to the end before falling 72-63 on Saturday night at the Pan American Center.
“I thought our guys, given the adversity that we have had this week losing Trey Wade and Matt Willms and [it being] our first road game, I thought we played really hard. I thought we played really competitive,” UTEP coach Tim Floyd said. “We had five guards out there for significant stretches of the game and I thought our guys really competed.