The last time, the only other time, Middle Tennessee State's women's basketball juggernaut came to the Don Haskins Center, it left in a shower of confetti.
"They cut our net down," UTEP coach Keitha Adams said of that Ides of March day in 2014 when the Blue Raiders won the Conference USA Tournament in their first season in the league. That qualified them for their 10th NCAA Tournament in an 11-year stretch. A month later, UTEP was dancing in glory all the way to a home sellout in the WNIT finals.
When the Miners and Middle Tennessee square off in the Haskins Center on Thursday night, it will be the biggest women's game in that venue since.