Marshall men 86, UTEP 78 Wochit
Three weeks ago, making a case for how the UTEP men's basketball team could improve this coming season was a hard sell.
The offseason began in brutal fashion with six players, including three members of what finished as a seven-player rotation, transferred. Recruiting to replace them started slowly, not entirely surprisingly given the pandemic lockdown.
The Miners seemed to be set up to take a step back, not a good thing given that the 2019-20 bar was an 11th-place finish in Conference USA.