Game Day Approaching: Florida Miners Tickets Released
Florida Vs Utep Miners Tickets
Each year, colleges across the US get ready for the regular NCAA season. Some of these colleges are members of the NCAA Division I and its various conferences. Such two programs now find themselves facing each other on the field, to decide who has the better sportsmen and sportswomen. In the Florida vs Utep Miners game, the Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton, Florida will face the University of Texas at El Paso, Texas. For this game, Florida vs Utep Miners tickets have already gone on sale, with many buying them up on first notice.
Florida Atlantic Owls are varsity teams that make up the athletic program of Florida Atlantic University, a member of Conference USA in the NCAA Division I FBS. The university's athletic director is Patick Chun. The university has eighteen varsity teams; ten women's and eight men's sports teams. The basketball games are played at the FAU Arena, football at the FAU Stadium and baseball at the FAU Baseball Stadium. The program's mascot is Owsley the Burrowing Owl and it is known for having some of the most renowned coaches. These includes Mike Jarvis in basketball and Howard Schnellenberger in football. They have coached their respective teams, who are ready for the upcoming Florida vs. Utep Miners game.
The Owls football team began playing in 2001, and within four seasons, they moved from the NCAA Division I-AA FCS to the NCAA Division I-A, now FBS. In 2007, they played their first bowl game, in the New Orleans Bowl, and brutally defeated the Memphis Tigers. In 2008, they competed in the Motor City Bowl; and again succeeded in defeating their counterparts, the Central Michigan Chippewas. In 2010, their first player was drafted into NFL. Facing them in the Florida vs. Utep Miners game is the University of Texas at El Paso's team. This university is also a member of the Conference USA in the NCAA Division I, led by athletic director Bob Stull. It fields fifteen varsity teams, which play their home games at the Sun Bowl Stadium and the Don Haskins Center.
The Miners are famous for being the only Texan college to win a National NCAA men's Basketball Championship. The team's win of the championship was also a historic moment because it was the very first time that a college team with five African Americans won a title. This win was covered all over the college basketball history, in books such as Ray Sanchez's "Basketball's Biggest Upset" and movies such as "Glory Road", released in 2006. All of its members have been inducted into the national Basketball Hall of Fame. Summarily, the program has won a record twenty one national NCAA Championships, the tenth most in the US. In short, the Miners are a formidable program, for whose upcoming game many have already bought Florida vs Utep Miners tickets.