UTEP men's basketball: Two tournaments, trip to Kansas highlight Miners schedule

Four home tournament games and trips to Kansas and New Mexico highlight the UTEP men's basketball schedule released Thursday.

The WestStar Don Haskins Sun Bowl Invitational returns after a one-year hiatus as North Carolina Central, Bradley and San Houston will join UTEP in the Dec. 21-22 tournament. UTEP will open with NC Central and then play either Bradley or Sam Houston on the second day.

UTEP is also participating in the Golden Turkey Classic around Thanksgiving, which will include a game at Pacific on Nov. 19, then home games against Cal-Riverside and Florida A&M on Nov. 22 and 24.

That's all part of a non-conference slate that has eight home games and four road games, including the traditional home-and-home with New Mexico State.

The road games include a two-game trip to Kansas on Dec. 7 and New Mexico on Dec. 12.

The Miners open the season at home against Western New Mexico on Nov. 9 and  begin Conference USA play Dec. 30 at UAB. The C-USA slate was previously released.

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UTEP 2021-22 men's basketball schedule

DATE, OPPONENT

All Times TBA

Nov. 9, Western New Mexico

Nov. 13, at New Mexico State

Nov. 16, Northern New Mexico

Nov. 19, at Pacific $

Nov. 22, UC Riverside $

Nov. 24, Florida A&M $

Dec. 3, New Mexico State

Dec. 7, at Kansas

Dec. 12, at New Mexico

Dec. 16, McNeese State

Dec. 21, North Carolina Central #

Dec. 22, Bradley/Sam Houston State #

Dec. 30, at UAB*

Jan. 1, at Middle Tennessee*

Jan. 6, La. Tech*

Jan. 8, Southern Miss*

Jan. 13, at Charlotte*

Jan. 15, at Old Dominion*

Jan. 20, UTSA*

Jan. 23, at UTSA*

Jan. 27, Florida Atlantic*

Jan. 29, FIU*

Feb. 3, at North Texas*

Feb. 5, at Rice*

Feb. 13, Marshall*

Feb. 17, at LA Tech*

Feb. 19, at Southern Miss*

Feb. 26, UAB*

March 3, Rice*

March 5, North Texas*

Home games in bold

$ - Golden Turkey Classic

# - WestStar Don Haskins Sun Bowl Invitational

* - Conference USA Game

Bret Bloomquist can be reached at 915-546-6359; bbloomquist@elpasotimes.com; @Bretbloomquist on Twitter.