Now the UTEP men's basketball team's sense of the moment in their own gym has abandoned them.
Leading Louisiana Tech 61-54 with 3:19 to go, the Miners went scoreless on their last six trips, missing their last six shots and turning the ball over three times to lose a game in the final minute for the third time in four Conference USA games.
The Bulldogs scored the last 10 points to win 64-61 in a game where UTEP led and had the ball with 23 seconds to play.
A 17-1 run midway through the second half put UTEP in front of a game they trailed for most of the first 32 minutes, and after blowing a seven-point lead, they rebuilt it heading into the stretch run before letting the everything get away.