El Paso Times · Feb 4, 2017
Miners face tall task at C-USA leading MTSU
UTEP coach Keitha Adams set a specific goal for her team as it tried to turn its season around Sunday against Marshall.Rudy Gutierrez / El Paso Times
Buy PhotoThe 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.