Felix Chavez/El Paso Times
Friday night will be the final dress rehearsal, one final performance with the lights bright, fans in the stands, officials tooting their whistles.
UTEP will take on Division 2 Western New Mexico at 7 p.m. Friday in the Don Haskins Center, the third and final preseason step toward the 2017-18 basketball season.
The Miners had their Orange-White scrimmage and went back to work. Last Friday, they had their first exhibition game, a 78-70 win over Division 3 Sul Ross State in a foul-plagued, free-throw shooting contest of a basketball game.