Once Upon A Time In Las Vegas – Wildcard Edition
The UTEP Miners (9-8, 2-4 C-USA) are on the road Monday for a Conference-USA clash against the Charlotte 49ers (12-5, 3-3 C-USA) in Charlotte at the Dale F. Halton Arena. UTEP was defeated by Rice 83-82 on Saturday. Tae Hardy scored 20 points to lead UTEP in the loss. The Miners have lost five of the last six. Charlotte snapped a two game losing streak with a 72-54 victory over UTSA on Saturday. UTEP and Charlotte do not have any injuries on their respective injury reports.
The UTEP Miners are scoring an average of only 70.2 points per game, while shooting 45.4% overall and a well below average of 27.1% from behind the three-point line. UTEP is 136th in field goal shooting and 361st in three-point shooting. UTEP's defense is allowing an average of 67.1 points per game, while holding opponents to a 41.7% field goal shooting percentage and 30.2% three-point shooting percentage, which are 99th and 49th respectively.
The leading scorer for UTEP is Tae Hardy with an average of 12.9 points per game but the guard is shooting just 41.6% overall and 31.0% from long distance. Shamar Givance is the second leading scorer with an average of 10.4 points per game and is shooting even worse at 40.0% overall and just 28.8% from behind the line. Each of the top five scorers for UTEP are shooting between 0.0% and 31.0% from three point land. Givance is the leader in assists with an average of 4.8 dishes per contest. On the boards, UTEP is averaging 36.5 rebounds per game led by Calvin Solomon with an average of 6.0 boards per contest. Solomon is also the leader in steals with an average of 2.1 per game and Jamari Sibley is the swat leader with an average of 0.7 blocked shots per game. UTEP is averaging 16.2 turnovers per contest.