The UTEP Miners women's basketball team starts Conference USA play Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019, against UTSA in San Antonio without their injured number two leading scorer. Bret Bloomquist/El Paso Times
The promise of Conference USA play, which for the UTEP women's basketball team begins Saturday in San Antonio, is that everyone starts 0-0.
That's critical for the Miners, who went 3-10 in the 13 games they played to open the 2018-19 season and now will be without second-leading scorer Ariana Gill for an extended time as she rehabs a stress fracture in her foot.