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Really nice 2nd half for the Miners, hopefully they can build on this.
I liked the stretches where Camper was the one initiating the offense. It let Powell just focus on putting his head down and getting to the basket. He is not a PG but maybe he can find his role as a slasher/back to the basket guard.
MVP should definitely go to Powell, however there was a stretch where Frazier kept us in game. He played really good in the 2nd half as well.
He was on the all-tourney team, well deserved. He played a great game
Glad we finally won this tournament. There were nearly 70 combined free throws tonight. College basketball has become ridiculous.
Powell took your comments very personally apparently lol 😆
The Miners shot right at their season average for 3s, but held Wyoming to over 20% lower than their season average. Defense was on point much of the night.
Officiating sucked tonight…however, free throws were very equal with them taking 32 and we took 35…quite a few of those 35 coming in the last few minutes as desperation fouls.
Officiating sucked tonight…however, free throws were very equal with them taking 32 and we took 35…quite a few of those 35 coming in the last few minutes as desperation fouls.
I thought the move to post up Powell and Hardy in the second half helped the stagnant half court offense. You have to be able to generate some offense from the inside out. We'll see if they can continue this again in conference.
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Also lost in OT to a good Washington squad. It screams typical CJG loss
You beat me to the punch. I was going to post the exact same thing. Sad days at UTEP.
It’s just sad in General for College Basketball and College Athletics. They’ve created a caste system that intentionally is in place to squash lower level programs.
Until we can define the purpose of Bowl Games and Non-Exempt Tournaments, they will continue to be looked down upon by the P5 programs.
During that time I believe the Miners were ranked as high as 4th in the country.
The problem is that the NCAA and the networks created MTE’s and exempt tournaments with Television rights.
With these types of tournaments, a team can play a few games and it only counts as a single game on the schedule.
Whereas the Sun Bowl invitational is non exempt, and every game counts equally.
Before MTE’s pretty much every bowl game had a tournament on the side.
There was a legendary Basketball Tournament called the Great Alaska Shootout.
Schools valued winning a holiday tournament and were treated to a bowl like experience, so they wanted to be in them.
Now they value the fact they can play top tier opposition at neutral sites and it allows them to play more games.
And if I remember correctly, if the Sun Carnival wanted to change their non exempt status UTEP would not be able to play in the tournament yearly
UTEP could play in it but only once every four years. Maybe it’s time for the tournament to modernize and search for its past glory.
Either that or just give it up. I would rather UTEP play some money games on the road.
They could do both. The tournament does its own thing and tries to bring in Big East and other P5 teams. UTEP can stop wasting their time with d3 teams and test themselves at an SEC or Big 10 school. Hopefully one day it all aligns. UTEP is good and is part of a good Sun Bowl Tournament.
