Texas El Paso Miners NCAA Basketball News

UTEP will take a fourth step into the basketball season tonight, taking on fast-paced, 3-point-bombing North Carolina A&T at 7 p.m. in the Don Haskins Center.

UTEP takes a third step into this shiny new basketball season tonight, taking on Arkansas State in the Don Haskins Center.

UTEP coach Tony Barbee was all smiles, overflowing with the positive moments from his team's 70-52 thumping of Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Wednesday night.

Randy Culpepper scored 17 points to lead four UTEP players in double figures and the Miners defeated Arkansas-Pine Bluff 70-52 Wednesday night.

Juniors Julyan Stone, Randy Culpepper and Isaac Gordon were elected captains of the UTEP basketball team Wednesday.

UTEP opens its 89th basketball season tonight, taking on Texas Southern at 7 p.m. in the Don Haskins Center.

After weeks of grueling three hour practices, the players are ready. And, after those long weeks of practice, UTEP coach Keitha Adams is ready, too.

It was a baby step, a step out into the bright lights of the Don Haskins Center.

Tulane seniors Andre Anderson and Jeremy Williams made their final home game one they'll never forget.

UTEP moves from the bottom floor of its spanking new Foster-Stevens Basketball Center to center stage -- under the bright lights of the Don Haskins Center -- tonight for an exhibition against New Mexico Highlands.

Though there is not a senior to be found on its roster, UTEP has a talented, veteran roster this season, a roster that Miner hoop fans know well.

The UTEP men's basketball team has been grinding through practice after practice, day in and day out.

The question fired up a hot topic during Thursday's Conference USA men's basketball teleconference call.

All 16 players on UTEP 's loaded women's basketball roster have had today's first real day of practice circled.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: Junior F Derrick Caracter, junior G Christian Polk, freshman G/F Marcus Ruppel, junior G Myron Strong and junior F Jeremy Williams are the five new faces.

UTEP sprinted through a highly energized, highly intense three-and-a-half hour workout Friday evening at its shiny new Foster/Stevens Basketball Center -- the beginning of a chase for victories and championships and possibly even a dance in March.

The Foster Stevens Basketball Complex, in the works for nearly three years, officially opened its doors April 22.

On the eve of a preseason meet-and-greet with fans, UTEP basketball coach Keitha Adams fielded some unfamiliar October questions.

Former Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie has checked into a rehab facility, according to WKYT in Houston.

Robert Edwin Kay, 30. A 30-year-old El Paso man was arrested this week after communicating online that he wanted to have sex with a girl he believed was 15 years old, police said Thursday.