The UTEP men’s basketball team tipped off the inaugural Jim Forbes Classic against Alcorn State (5-1) Tuesday Nov. 22 at the Don Haskins Center. The UTEP Miners will host the Alcorn State Braves (3-3), California State University-Bakersfield (CSU-Bakersfield) (3-3) and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (TAMU-Corpus) (4-3). The Miners will face off against CSU-Bakersfield at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23 and against TAMCC at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 25.
The Classic is named after UTEP legend Jim Forbes. Forbes was selected to play for the 1972 United States Men’s Basketball Team during the Munich Olympics and was later drafted by the Chicago Bulls.