Birmingham, AL (SportsNetwork.com) – DJ Jones scored a game-high 17 points off the bench as the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders held off the Miners of Texas-El Paso, 53-50, in the semifinals of the Conference USA Tournament at Legacy Arena. Jones made good on 4-of-6 shots behind the 3-point line for the Middle Tennessee (19-15), the […]

Birmingham, AL (SportsNetwork.com) – Julian Washburn netted 19 points and hit a perfect 4-of-4 from 3-point range to lead his second-seeded Texas-El Paso Miners past the 10th-seeded FIU Panthers, 83-71, in the quarterfinal round of the Conference USA Tournament Thursday at Legacy Arena. Vince Hunter chipped in with 16 points, and Omega Harris added 15 […]

(SportsNetwork.com) – A new team will be crowned the Conference USA Tournament Champion for the third year in a row as 12 teams head to Legacy Arena at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex to battle for an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament field. Louisiana Tech (24-7, 15-3) earned the top-seed for the conference tourney after […]

Irving, TX (SportsNetwork.com) – UTEP men’s basketball head coach Tim Floyd will be suspended for Saturday’s game at Southern Miss for violating Conference USA’s sportsmanship policy, the league has announced. In the Miners’ loss to conference-leading Louisiana Tech on Thursday, Floyd took exception to a loose-ball foul near the midpoint of the second half. He […]

Lawrence, KS (SportsNetwork.com) – A pair of teams off to similar starts get together on Tuesday night, as the Kent State Golden Flashes come calling on the 13th-ranked Kansas Jayhawks. No one is going to mistake Kent State for an elite team, but the squad from the unheralded Mid-American Conference may be catching Kansas at […]

Las Vegas, NV (SportsNetwork.com) – The third-ranked Arizona Wildcats close out a brief two-game road trip on Tuesday, as they take on the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels in a non-conference clash at the Thomas & Mack Center. Sean Miller’s Wildcats will try to wrap up their non-conference slate perfect, as they have opened the 2014-15 campaign […]