The UTEP men’s basketball team(7-15, 2-9) were defeated by the Florida Atlantic Owls (14-10, 5-6) 61-48 in an exceptional shooting performance by the Owls. Florida Atlantic shot 13-of-26 from three and were 23-of-58 from the field. The Miner son the other hand had an abysmal shooting outing going 15-of-53 from the field and 5-of-27 from three. The Miners have now lost four straight and are currently in 13th place in the Conference-USA standings.
“ We struggled shooting the basketball tonight and give the credit(FAU) they made some shots tonight and we knew coming in that they were a good shooting team,” head coach Rodney Terry said.