As the UTEP women’s basketball team watches their season come down to crunch time, the Miners lost another single digit game to an opponent above them in the tight Conference-USA standings on Saturday. The Rice Owls left the Don Haskins Center with an 80-76 win and the Miners were left clinging to the 12th and final seed in the C-USA tournament.
The Miners battled the Owls in a game that never got out of a single digit lead in either team’s favor and not unlike most games this season, UTEP saw their opponents take yet another close one.