The Friday-Saturday doubleheader format the UTEP men's basketball team will be playing this year puts a premium on how quickly a team can rebound.
In every sense of that, the Miners came up short in a 71-68 loss to Rice Saturday.
A day after hanging 101 points on the Owls, UTEP was beaten on the boards, cold from the field, and generally, a step slow and out of sorts while falling to 2-2 in Conference USA.
With a chance to build some momentum, their two-game winning streak slid away in a flurry of missed chances.