After eight straight losses, a dark Christmas break, and a few practices the UTEP basketball team returns to action Friday evening in Las Cruces for Round 2 of the Battle of I-10.
“Everybody has had a break,” Floyd said. “They have had a break, we have had a break. I know that we probably needed it. We regrouped, we came back energized. Our guys have practiced well for a couple of days. We had one little setback with Jake Flaggert breaking his nose in the Irvine game. It’s our third broken nose of the year [Ivan Venegas and Matt Willms are the others].