Multitalented UTEP guard Rachel Tapps provides the National Anthem for her own game. And it was really good. Mark Lambie / El Paso Times
The spot UTEP is in now certainly isn't where they expected to or wanted to be two weeks ago, but now that it's arrived, there is little choice but to embrace it.
Florida International comes to the Haskins Center Thursday and the most likely stakes are simple: If UTEP wins, they are in the Conference USA tournament; if they lose, they will need a string of unlikely things to happen to make it.