Analysis: UTEP male basketball, but can still be saved; Here’s how

UTEP’s male basketball team worked in a tight place.

The lost weekend which led to decisive setbacks in Jacksonville State and Kennesaw State – the same list The state of the new-mexic has swept – The minors are now rushing to finish the six best United States which would give them a Bye in the first round at the conference tournament.

More than that, he did an utep shuffle to meet before the season moves away from it.

Hope must be that the safeguarding process of itself begins at home this week against western Kentucky on Thursday and the midfielder of Tennessee on Saturday, two games where minors are to be light favorites.

The UTEP can still indicate this time a year ago, when it was falling before a late charge which brought him to the championship match of the Cusa tournament and at 10:33 am of an offer of the tournament of the NCAA.

This wave began with a victory on February 29 at Jacksonville State, which achieved a sequence of four consecutive defeats and began a sequence of five consecutive victories, so there is hope. The minors are responsible for players who have experienced this and it must be a touchstone for them.

If anything, the Cusa tournament will be bigger open this year than last year. Currently, nine of the 10 teams (therefore not Florida International) seem to be realistically that they could run as a tournament and UTEP has a ticket for this lottery.

The minors have two weeks, four games, to come back to the best place where they were a month ago.

The two obvious areas where the UTEP was coupled forced reversals and pulls the ball. The turnover has not disappeared, but the team that led the nation to force them is now fifth. The UTEP was on average 18 forced reversals per game, but 21 games; This number was 12.1 to the last six competitions.

Forcing turnover was a vital part of the identity of minors and the catalyst for their success. They must come back to it.

One thing that would help bring Corey Camper back to health. He has not been the same since his ankle injury on January 23 against Jacksonville State. He has had nine interceptions in six games since his return from this injury; It was on average 2.4 interceptions per game before it.

The good news is that there is no interrogation the tenacity and desire of the motorhome and the ankle should continue to improve.

Then minors have to blow. Forcing more turnover should lead to faster breaks and easier baskets and it is something that UTEP could use at the moment because it deals with a prolonged shooting collapse.

Beyond that, they need more than their 3 points and their mid-range riders to enter. Snap at any time.

A place to start looking for it would be for Devon Barnes, who scored eight points in this sequence of three consecutive defeats. It is on average 9.4 points per game, so bring it back to this level will be vital for minors.

The Don Haskins Center could be the needs in UTEP Spark. Minors still have mojo in their own gymnasium, they are better in front of their own fans and this must arise this week.

It’s their last time to play the Haskins Center this season and it’s time for Utep to start saving yourself.

Bret Bloomquist can be contacted at bbloomquist@elpasotimes.com; @BretBloomquist on X.

This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Analysis: UTEP male basketball must find a shooting touch