UTEP men get ready to host FIU UTEP men get ready to host FIU As the UTEP men's basketball team rounds the back curve and approaches the home stretch of a season that has been a challenge, this team by now has some definition. The Miners have the potential to be a mid-table team in Conference USA, but are off to a 2-5 start for a simple reason: they were saddled with playing five of their first seven league games on the road in their final year of CUSA. The Miners and Sam Houston are the only teams in the conference with that distinction. What has been UTEP's biggest problem in CUSA? Such a thing happened to UCLA in the Big 10 and here is what Bruins coach Mike Cronin said about that after...
