There has been a five-year lapse, but this series, this old rivalry, is so storied that it seems as though the teams last played yesterday.
UTEP and New Mexico will meet Wednesday night in The Pit — now baring the label WisePies Arena. The two old friends, neighbors and rivals have not met since March 15, 2011. But, prior to that, they had met 140 other times, getting eyeball-to-eyeball on the court most years since Herbert Hoover was beginning his administration in 1928 ... since before the Great Depression and long before World War II.
New Mexico has won 76 of the 141 meetings; UTEP 65.