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It would have been UTEP's first NCAA Tournament. Instead, it was a tournament that never was.
The Border Conference championship was very much real and so was the celebration of those Texas Western Miners after they beat New Mexico State 72-69 in overtime to clinch that championship.
The year was 1957 and it was well into the calm of the Eisenhower years.