2009–10 UTEP Miners men's basketball team

The 2009–10 UTEP Miners men's basketball team represented the University of Texas at El Paso in the 2009–10 college basketball season. This was head coach Tony Barbee's fourth season at UTEP. The Miners competed in Conference USA and played their home games at the Don Haskins Center. They finished the season 267, 151 in CUSA play to win the regular season championship. They advanced to the championship game of the 2010 Conference USA men's basketball tournament before losing to Houston. They received and atlarge bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, earning a 12 seed in the west region, where they would lose to 5 seed and AP #11 Butler in the first round. UTEP averaged 8,697 fans per game, ranking 58th nationally.

2009–10 UTEP Miners men's basketball
C-USA Regular Season Champions
NCAA tournament, Round of 64
ConferenceConference USA
Record267 (151 C-USA)
Head coach
  • Tony Barbee
Assistant coaches
  • Randall Dickey
  • Tony Madlock
  • Milt Wagner
Home arenaDon Haskins Center
2009–10 Conference USA men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
UTEP151 .938267  .788
Memphis133 .8132410  .706
UAB115 .688259  .735
Marshall115 .6882410  .706
Tulsa106 .6252312  .657
Southern Miss88 .5002013  .606
Houston79 .4381916  .543
SMU79 .4381417  .452
East Carolina412 .2501021  .323
Tulane313 .188822  .267
Rice115 .063823  .258
UCF*010 .000017  .000
2010 CUSA Tournament winner
As of March 20, 2010
Rankings from AP Poll
*UCF vacated its wins from the 2010–11 season after it was discovered that there was an ineligible player on the team.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.