El Pasoans reacted to Tuesday's news of the University of Texas at El Paso's athletics department transitioning to the Mountain West Conference.

UTEP's shift to the Mountain West opens doors to fierce rivalries — but will the Miners rise to the challenge?

Gonzaga will move from the West Coast Conference where it has dominated for most of the last quarter century into a conference that was being rebuilt around football, but should be pretty stout on the basketball court.