Without the type of consistent ball pressure and ability to disrupt enemy passing lanes as a year ago, UTEP has been an afterthought this season also because the offense, to put it mildly, suffers, just 69.5 ppg (ranks 318th). Meanwhile, Hank Plona has his Hilltoppers on a faster track, winning five straight, scoring better than 87 ppg in the process, as shrewd portal adds such as 6-9 ex-North Texas F Grant Newell (20+ scoring three times in past five games) & G Ryan Myers (liberated from Western Illinois; 22 points in a recent win at Delaware) have proven upgrades while holdover wing Teagan Moore (18.5 ppg) now one of C-USA’s most-feared weapons, scoring at a brisk 25 pg clip the past four games. Play WKU