The young, building UTEP women's basketball team is in the position where it needs most things to go right to pull an upset against a team four games ahead of them in the standings, like North Texas Thursday night.
For three and a half quarters, the scoreboard and star Sparkle Taylor were working just fine for them, but eventually an accumulation of fouls on a night where there were 55 of them was too much to overcome in a 76-69 loss to the Mean Green.
The Miners' fifth consecutive setback dropped them to 6-19 overall and 3-10 in Conference USA and wasted a career-high 34 points from Taylor, the ninth most in program history.