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Don't look now, but the team that most thought would be dead in the water after getting rid of three key players is on a four-game win streak. So, here's a short music video saluting the UTEP Miners as they try to stay Steady At The Wheel.

Check out my column on the 2013-14 UTEP Miners men's basketball team, a team with every excuse not to be very good.

Brash and bold, mostly hot but sometimes cold, Tim Floyd has always been the coaching equivalent of a stand-your-ground law.

Fight on, Part Two. A day after my speculation that UTEP head coach Tim Floyd laid into USC's Andy Enfield mostly because of what Enfield's comments in the Men's Journal did to sully the reputation of his city, his school and Floyd himself, Floyd stated that was exactly the point. Then he took it further. A lot further.

If you're a basketball fan like me, you've seen thousands of free throw attempts. But I've never seen a free throw attempt this bad. Check out this video in which Brian Okam attempts a free throw for Appalachian State and it doesn't go very well.

Highlights from the players, insight from the coaches and more — Duke Keith recaps the Battle of I-10a, as the UTEP Miners clawed their way back to beat the NMSU Aggies at the Don Haskins Center Wednesday night.

As the Miners head to the Gulf for a three-game road swing, we'll give you a whiff of some home-cookin'. Here's UTEP freshman Julian Washburn's no-look reverse dunk from last Wednesday's 70-56 win over East Carolina.

"...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..."

If there is anything more over-the-top than Lindsey Wilson College's Chase Spreen throwing in a buzzer-beating three-quarter-court game-winning bucket, it was the call of the game by an unknown play-by-play man. Awesome!

Miners head men's basketball coach Tim Floyd talks about UTEP's first win of the season over Cal-Riverside. The Miners had their issues throughout the game, but shot well both early and late in the second half as lanky freshman Hooper Vint knocked down two big three-pointers to seal the victory.

America's team my azz, But, There are fans that are even worse then the Cowboys fans (if you can believe that).

(UTEP & Memphis post-game interview video below) By Duke Keith: dkeith@klaq.com, twitter.com/dukekeith Now you see it, now you don't. An opportunity for the UTEP Miners to not sweat Selection Sunday escaped them like a 12-point second half lead. Like a missed free throw. Like a long rebound. UTEP let the Tigers run; and slowly, surely, those Tigers kept nibbling away at the Conference USA tou