Anyone think Suspensions will result from fight??

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Several Miners went into the stands at the end of last night's game.

There are pics from last night's game on this.
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UTEP holds off USM in final seconds (fight averted)
Posted 2/24/2010 10:20 PM CST by Patrick Magee on hattiesburgamerican.com
No. 25 UTEP beat Southern Miss 59-56 tonight, holding off a late run by the Golden Eagles.

Southern Miss rallied much like in Saturday's win over UCF, but they came up short tonight. The Golden Eagles out-scored the Miners 18-6 in the final 7:57.

Derrick Caracter, who almost joined the Golden Eagles in the offseason, was tough in the post for UTEP. The Louisville transfer had 17 points and eight rebounds as USM had no real answer for him.

USM had one last chance to tie the game, but UTEP denied an open shot to Angelo Johnson, who had to kick it to Josimar Ayarza. The shot, which was Ayarza's first 3-point attempt of the season, barely rimmed out as the Eagles failed to get an important win.

USM now prepares to travel to Memphis on Saturday for a 7 p.m. game. Houston beat Memphis tonight 92-75.

A fight almost broke out in the stands at Reed Green Coliseum tonight when UTEP and USM fans began to argue at the conclusion of the game. UTEP players went into the stands to check out the dispute, which never came to blows.


UTEP players pictured in orange jerseys are No. 3 Randy Culpepper, top left, and No. 11 Myron Strong, bottom


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[MinerMan2010]

No way. Supposedly, some of Randy Culpeppers groupies had an altercation or something. Big crowd at the game last night. Thought I was watching a game at the University of Houston.

[shyminer]

I heard, that it was broken up just as fast as it started... I don't think anything will happen. Barbee needs to address the team on how they should to be acting, last week J Will got out of line as well... They need to focus on the prize, they are so close.

[doug in austin]

I hate to say this but if I were the commissioner of CUSA I'd slap a one game suspension on Strong and Culpepper. You just absolutely cannot go into the stands. I mean if it were a celebratory thing I might be more understanding, but if it's to go defend your loud mouth girlfriend then I just can't condone that. Players need to stay on the court. The stands are for fans...

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Feb 25, 2010 18:23:05 GMT -5 doug in austin said:

I hate to say this but if I were the commissioner of CUSA I'd slap a one game suspension on Strong and Culpepper. You just absolutely cannot go into the stands. I mean if it were a celebratory thing I might be more understanding, but if it's to go defend your loud mouth girlfriend then I just can't condone that. Players need to stay on the court. The stands are for fans...

I think there is precedence for this... kind of... sort of...
Utep was playing San Jose State and Coach Phil Johnson of SJS was getting into it with some fans who were sitting in back of the visitor's bench.

Supposedly, the E.P. fans were making fun of Coach Johnson's need for Psychiatric counseling... to the point where the Coach threatened to go into the crowd.

The coach was benched for 4 games, as I remember, and forced to apologize.

Utep instituted a policy of placing a guard in back of the visitor's bench to stop that scenario from ever happening again.

It will be interesting to see what, if anything, comes out of this... but I agree with Doug... at no time should the players be allowed to mingle with the crowd...

That is just asking for trouble.

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