UTEP men's basketball coach Tim Floyd said this year's recruits are just part of the best offseason he has had since returning to UTEP. Ruben R. Ramirez/El Paso Times
And another one slipped away.
Appalachian State held off a late UTEP charge and edged the Miners 75-72 Sunday morning in the seventh place game of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off, a tournament moved to the campus of Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C., due to hurricane damage in Puerto Rico.
It was a game with more plot twists than a daytime soap opera, a roller coaster ride filled with ups and downs and one too many downs for the Miners.