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Miners senior forward Gabe McCulley gets the baseline feed from center John Bohannon and dunks it home in UTEP's 76-68 double-overtime win over Southern Miss.

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It was one of the biggest UTEP basketball upsets in recent memory. The UTEP Miners beat the Memphis Tigers, 60-58, last Saturday, and did it in Memphis -- the team's first road win this season. This video is from longtime UTEP fan, MinersWon.

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UTEP and Conference USA received a huge blow yesterday when the Big East announced they would invite the University of Memphis to become a member of their conference next year.

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"...The result was a rebounding bloodbath that the Miners were only too happy to claim. UTEP out-boarded ECU, 14-5, in the first half and by 20 in the game, 39-19..."

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"...SMU is Big East-bound, and it can crow to its heart's content that it has a program to match TCU's. You can read all about it on page 12 of the Dallas Morning-News sports section, right above the ads for topless bars..."

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Conference USA and the Mountain West had a great idea -- get together and form a nationwide football-only super-conference that was sure to get an automatic BCS bid for its champion and good TV money.

Only problem was, they talked to the Big East about it.

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UTEP head football coach Mike Price talks about the Miners come-from-behind win over East Carolina and previews this Saturday's game against Tulsa, jokingly saying he doesn't want the Golden Hurricane taking this game TOO seriously.

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Joe Banyard celebrated his birthday in grand fashion, as the senior running back scored on a 78-yard run in the fourth quarter to give UTEP a lead it would not relinquish.The result is that the Miners are one win away from bowl eligibility for a second straight year

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UTEP head football coach Mike Price discusses the disheartening loss to No. 25 Southern Miss. The Golden Eagles took advantage of some key Miner miscues in the fourth quarter to run away from UTEP, improving to 7-1.

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