Not much about this NCAA basketball season looks like anything before it, and that will be just as true in the spring semester of 2021 as it was in the fall of 2020.
The UTEP women hosted Southern Miss Friday in an empty gym — the first New Year's Day game in program history — then the Miners host Southern Miss again Saturday.
Other than a late January home-and-home with UTSA, this is the new, one-season normal for UTEP and everyone else in Conference USA.
In a season all about adjusting, two-games-in-two-days is the newest hurdle.