UTEP BasketballThursday, November 12
UTEP and New Mexico State meet tonight for the 232nd time in the Battle of I-10
The Daily El Paso team
If you're headed to the Don Haskins Center tonight, you'll see a rivalry with a lot of new faces. UTEP has no returning players from last season, and New Mexico State has just two, including guard Gabe Pickens. No Miner has played in this game before, though guard Reese Miller says the team got a preview at a September volleyball match in Las Cruces.
New Mexico State leads the series 124-107
Source: KFOX-TV
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| New Mexico State | 124 wins |
| UTEP | 107 wins |
Last February in Las Cruces, there was some shoving after the final whistle. Coach Jason Hooten says it got “completely blown out of proportion” and that he and UTEP coach Joe Golding have talked since.
- Tip-off: 7 p.m. tonight, GECU Arena at the Don Haskins Center
- Meetings: 232nd game in the series, first of two this season
- UTEP so far: lost 84-76 to Northern Kentucky, beat Incarnate Word 79-60
- NMSU so far: beat Western New Mexico, lost to Gonzaga by 41
UTEP's Cam McDaniels broke out in the home opener, and Golding says the word around the program right now is “consistency.” On the other bench, New Mexico State lost Gabe Warren for the season in its opener, and Hooten calls him difficult to replace.
27points scored by UTEP's Cam McDaniels in his second Division I game
He did it in UTEP's 79-60 home-opener win over Incarnate Word.
Source: KFOX-TV
Sources: KFOX-TV, El Paso Times