It took a special honoring of UTEP great Jeep Jackson at halftime to wake up the men’s basketball team to come out on top against UAB 63-59 at the Don Haskins Center, on Feb. 2.
As the Miners (7-14) stay perfect in home Conference USA games at 4-0, they did it against the second best team in the league, UAB (14-9, 7-3 C-USA). And for the first time this season, head coach of UTEP Tim Floyd can say his team is finally over the .500 mark in the conference as they stand at 5-4.
In the first half of play, the Miners looked dead in the water as they shot 31.