The UTEP men's basketball team's season-opening 72-57 loss to No. 12 Texas was always going to be hard to judge by a final score.
The first regular season basketball game in the Moody Center was packed, the crowd was loud and the veteran Longhorns simply had more firepower at its disposal than a Miner team breaking in 10 new players.
Then UTEP endured an injury to sixth man Jon Dos Anjos, the other bigs got in foul trouble, the Miners couldn't hold on to the ball and soon enough they were down 31-14.
How UTEP would like to be judged is by what happened next.