Ruben R. Ramirez/El Paso Times
The summer sun blazes down, scorching the desert earth.
And so it is time for basketball. Basketball? In June and July?
These summer months have forever been a time for basketball players to hone their skills, become better at the game. They work in empty gyms, puddles of sweat their only witness.
UTEP has seven new basketball recruits — five who will be freshmen, two who will be sophomores. In the past, the summer work was an individual thing. No more.