Rudy Gutierrez / El Paso Times
The road in front of the UTEP women's basketball team will hit its steepest point Saturday night, about as steep as it can get in Conference USA play.
The Miners are reaching the midpoint of a four-game road trip. They are also coming off a midnight 3-hour bus ride leaving from Birmingham, Ala. where they lost, on Thursday night and arriving in Murfreesboro, Tenn., where they've never won, on Friday night.
On top of that, they get to play the flag bearers of their league, Middle Tennessee.