Rudy Gutierrez / El Paso Times
At times this season, the rebuilding UTEP women's basketball team resembles one of those cartoon characters on a boat where every time the protagonist plugs one hole, another springs a leak.
As the Miners look to rebound from a skid Saturday at Southern Miss and right their ship, they need, quite literally, to rebound.
That was the one area where they came up short Thursday in the 69-61 loss to Louisiana Tech, where a minus-14 on the glass led to a dooming minus-23 in free-throw attempts.