C-USA basketball

After dropping a career-high 32 points versus Rice on Saturday, freshman guard Jordan Lathon was named C-USA Freshman of the Week, league officials announced today.

On a tough Thursday evening, UTEP (7-15, 2-9 C-USA) had no answer to the red-hot 3-point shooting by Florida Atlantic and fell 61-48 at the Don Haskins Center.

The Miners are headed toward the second half of their C-USA schedule this week, as they get set to host Florida Atlantic on Thursday at the Don Haskins Center with a 7 p.m. tipoff.

Four of the final six games for the Miners will take place away from El Paso, and it starts tonight with the first game against Marshall (12-9, 5-3 C-USA), who are undergoing a three-game losing streak.

There are only six more games until UTEP wraps up their conference schedule and gets paired up within a group based on their pairings for the final four games of the season, which is reflected by the new Conference USA scheduling format.

UTEP pulled away in the end over Charlotte to snap their three-game losing streak and improve to 7-12 overall.

After a tough weekend that included back-to-back road losses UAB (76-63) and Middle Tennessee (75-72), UTEP (6-11, 1-5 Conference USA) is left to regroup as they sit in last place in the latest C-USA basketball standings.

UTEP men's basketball (6-9, 1-3 Conference USA) will hit the road this week and test their winless (0-5) road record on Thursday against UAB (10-7, 2-2 C-USA) in Birmingham, Ala.

The Miners (6-9, 1-3 C-USA) will hit the road this week to take on UAB (10-7, 2-2) and Middle Tennessee (3-14, 0-4 C-USA) on Thursday and Saturday, respecitvely.

After the Miners underwent their thrilling buzzer beater win over Rice, now they must look toward winning on the road this week and preparing for UAB and Middle Tennessee.