The UTEP men’s basketball team couldn’t hand North Texas their first loss in Conference-USA despite a strong defensive effort.
“We want to get lost playing hard on defense,” said first-year head coach Rodney Terry. “We don’t never work going into games saying we have to out score. We got to try to get meaningful stops.”
UTEP is now 5-9, and 0-3 on conference play, while UNT is now 4-0 in C-USA and 16-1 on the season.
In the first half, the Miners came out and set the tone with their defense, forcing the the no. 1 team in field goal percentage in C-USA to miss their first six field goal attempts.