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Texas interim head coach Rodney Terry, who spent three seasons as the Miners' head coach, will face his former star guard at UTEP in Souley Boum and the Xavier Musketeers on Friday evening in the Sweet 16.

Kate Bieri recently announced that she would be leaving her hometown to take a job in Memphis, Tennessee as a consumer reporter for FOX 13 Memphis.

Miners head coach Tim Floyd talked about UTEP's 56-54 loss to the No. 252 Memphis Tigers for awhile, then offered a brief statement on the LA Times story in which he stated he talked with USC athletic director Pat Haden about the Trojans' head coaching job.

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.

Arguably the biggest victory of the season for UTEP. First road win. Young team. Nearly 17,000 fans cheering against the Miners in one of the most hostile settings in all of Conference USA. Against all odds, UTEP beat the Memphis Tigers in their own building, 60-58.

(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

UTEP head coach Tim Floyd was fired up about the lack of respect for Conference USA after the Miners 66-54 C-USA Tournament semifinal win over the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, saying he thought it was "ridiculous that we have to win a 26th game" to get into the NCAA tournament for a second straight season...