The UTEP women’s basketball team (0-2) came out on Thursday trying to avoid their second worst start under 16-year head coach Keitha Adams and emphatically put an end to their losing streak with a 93-46 win over the visiting Western New Mexico Mustangs.
From the start, the defensive pressure from the Miners was suffocating and the dramatically undersized Mustangs (2-1) did not score for almost the entire first quarter as UTEP opened up in a full court defense and allowed only six first quarter points. The Miners used their size to out-rebound WNMU 14-3 in the first period.