Joe Golding’s talking points in his first season as men’s basketball coach at UTEP have centered around intangibles like competing hard and making hustle plays.
Saturday night, at the end of the longest road trip of the year at Old Dominion, all that resulted in a huge tangible. The Miners staged a miraculous rally to force overtime, then came away with a 78-70 victory for their first Conference USA road win in 54 weeks.
With one of their most memorable wins in recent memory, UTEP improved to 2-3 in C-USA and 9-8 overall while handing ODU its first league loss.