One very important thing to understand about UTEP women's basketball coach Keitha Adams in these trying times is that she's coaching harder than ever.
Her team began this week at 6 a.m. Tuesday for the first of a rare two-a-day workout, not because they were being punished for a pair of opening losses last week, but because they needed them in preparation for Thursday's game against Division II Western New Mexico.
The Miners have to defend better, rebound better, pass better, shoot better and just generally play stronger and tougher than they did in the opening two losses.