The UTEP women's basketball team needs to find a way to win in the final minutes. Bret Bloomquist/El Paso Times
Heading to Las Vegas to break a streak of bad luck can sound dubious, but for the UTEP women's basketball team, the Las Vegas Shootout might be exactly what it needs.
After a brutal stretch of schedule in which the Miners have lost eight straight games against teams that are now a combined 50-22, the Miners open their two-games-in-two-days tournament against 3-8 Western Illinois of the Summit League on Thursday afternoon.