Carolina Alvarez
The UTSA Roadrunners swept the UTEP men’s basketball team in conference play after a 67-63 win Saturday night at the Don Haskins Center.
UTEP fell to 5-8, (0-2 C-USA) while UTSA is now 8-7 (2-0 C-USA).
“It’s not where you start it’s how you finish,” said first-year head coach Rodney Terry.
UTEP opened up the game with an Efe Odigie basket with just 45 seconds into the game, in the first matchup against the Roadrunners UTEP didn’t score their first points of the game till the 15:41 marker in that game, UTEP did not score their first field goal till 12:48, a vastly different approach was taken when the Miners jumped out to a one point lead with 15:27 left in the first half.