[speaker001:] as Texas El Paso uh they were undefeated until uh Thursday night when they played the University of Utah here in Salt Lake City and uh
[speaker002:] oh really hum
[speaker001:] they were beaten by uh a last minute three point shot
[speaker002:] oh my gosh
[speaker001:] and uh so it kind of opened things up a little bit they play uh Brigham Young University tonight
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh I I'm pretty sure uh they really got a good team this year and I think
[speaker002:] do do they do they traditionally have a good team or is this sort of an unusually thing
[speaker001:] uh yes they do uh they usually uh they're usually the one or two in the in the WAC conference and they're the only team from Texas
[speaker002:] huh huh huh yeah see we're it's they're actually in the University of Texas system and I don't I don't even know anything about them I'm here in Austin we have uh University UT Austin
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] right which is which I mean I just generally go to the University of Texas right the the Longhorns um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh
[speaker001:] yeah who's doing the who's leading the conference
[speaker002:] actually actually I don't know right now Longhorns aren't having quite the year that they had hoped um they they had a a star forward that that was disqualified because of
[speaker001:] uh I see oh
[speaker002:] of something I guess as he was leaving his junior college they uh some supporter gave him a car or something and uh
[speaker001:] oh oh I see that kind of fouled things up plus maybe
[speaker002:] yeah it sure did because they were they had a real good start and then and then and then ended up you know they they're they're holding on but it's not it's not gonna be a a season like they had last year when they went to the NCAA
[speaker001:] um-hum right well last year the University of Utah went and uh they had two of their stars uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] got hurt the beginning of the season this year and that's why uh uh Texas El Paso is uh is in the University of Utah went to the NC Double A's last year and they got into the final sixteen I guess but
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] uh UTEP like I say is doing real well and it's it's too bad that they have something like that did they restrict the uh the Longhorns as far as uh being able to play in any of the
[speaker002:] no it it it something had happened outside of that you know and and it happened as as part of his junior college career
[speaker001:] junior college so it didn't affect their program other than loosing him yeah right that's too bad
[speaker002:] but no but they pulled him out of the out of the lineup you know and it was something he he reported himself or I mean they it wasn't a and and the NCAA uh immediately suspended him and then and then actually UT on his behalf filed a an injunction in the court system to allow him to continue to play which worked for a few games and then they then they pulled him in so
[speaker001:] yeah but oh that's too bad
[speaker002:] yeah but they've been having uh I mean last last last year they had a real good team they had every they had a new coach Tom Penders come in um about I guess about three years ago
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and and the the program had been in a long a long decline you know for for years they I guess back when Abe Lemons was here they built quite a quite a tradition
[speaker001:] I see um-hum
[speaker002:] and then it it kind of went downhill for about for a couple of coaches and Penders has done a good job of getting it back on its feet and doing some you know playing some good basketball but
[speaker001:] good I know uh I was in Montana this last week and I saw the uh huh the women's team from uh Texas was playing uh Penn State
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh Penn State was ranked number eight I believe in the women's basketball and I I got to watch the half and then I had to leave on a flight uh back to Utah and I uh Texas was leading
[speaker002:] um-hum hum
[speaker001:] I don't know how they came out I don't know if you heard or not but uh
[speaker002:] I don't know yeah uh the women's program is quite interesting down here the the women's program here in in Austin um actually for a while it was was drawing bigger crowds than the men's program if you could imagine that they but they you know they just have have traditionally been a dominant a dominant basketball team I mean they've they've always been in the top
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] top eight in the country um and actually had a couple of years that they haven't been quite as strong but but uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] the the Southwestern Conference uh they've been undefeated in the Southwestern they were no they aren't now but they had been undefeated in the Southwestern Conference for something like a five year streak or something
[speaker001:] I wish them well
[speaker002:] and had won the conference title for ten years in a row or something
[speaker001:] that's great
[speaker002:] and so that is they've they've that's that's quite a tradition here in in Texas but
[speaker001:] I'll say yeah uh that's uh last year the University of Utah that was the best season they'd had and uh the well the the coach had come in this Rick Majerus he'd come in uh he'd only been there a couple years and uh
[speaker002:] um-hum oh yeah um-hum
[speaker001:] really built the program and they were supposed to well they were rated up in the the first uh uh top ten this year until they lost their two of their their star players and uh through injuries
[speaker002:] uh-huh right
[speaker001:] and now they are uh they they did beat uh Texas El Paso and uh that was kind of strange I guess Texas El Paso was just weren't weren't uh
[speaker002:] up to speed yeah
[speaker001:] hitting and uh