UTEP vs Kansas Primer:
The UTEP Miners play on the road at the 17th ranked Kansas Jayhawks 6 p.m. to play the team’s historic first game in school history in Lawrence, Kansas.
Only four times in history have the two teams crossed paths and the Miners hold a 3-1 lifetime record versus Kansas. The two teams last played in 2013 in the Bahamas, with Kansas winning a narrow 67- 63 victory. Kansas is also the last team that UTEP beat in an NCAA tournament game in 1996.
Kansas is the highest-profile team that UTEP has faced this season and the third Power Five teams the team has played this season.