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Kayla Thornton scored a career-high 20 points during UTEP's 81-58 win over Texas State Saturday afternoon in the Don Haskins Center. (Image: Michael P. Reese)

NCAA Tourney Preview: UTEP vs Penn State

EL PASO, Texas – For only the second time in program history, the UTEP women’s basketball team will be headed back to the NCAA Tournament with its lone participation coming in 2008. Unlike the 2008 tournament, UTEP...
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Head coach Keitha Adams celebrated after the NCAA tournament seedings by dancing with her father, Lowell J. Adams, as players and fans celebrated. (Image: Ivan Pierre Aguirre)

WBB Seeded No. 13, Will Face No. 4 Penn State

EL PASO, Texas – With eager eyes watching the video board in the Don Haskins Center, the mood went from cautions and nervous to full out party when Keitha Adams and the women’s basketball team discovered they were selected...
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The UTEP women's basketball team pose as they are named the 2012 Conference USA Tournament champions after defeating Tulane, 69-65. (Image: UTEP Athletics)

Conference USA Tourney Champs! WBB Defeats Tulane, 69-65

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Gloria Brown scored 18 of her game-high 20 points in the second half as regular-season champion UTEP rallied past No. 3 seed Tulane, 69-65, in the 2012 Conference USA Championship title game on Saturday at ...
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Kelli Willingham's potential go-ahead three pointer from the right wing was blocked with seven seconds to play, allowing Arizona State to creep past UTEP, 47-45. (Image: Michael P. Reese)

WBB Heads to Conference USA Championship Game

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Sophomore Kelli Willingham tallied 15 points and senior Gloria Brown pulled down a game-high 10 rebounds as regular-season champion and top-seeded UTEP derailed fourth-seed UAB, 60-49, in the 2012 Conference...
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WBB head coach Keitha Adams discusses strategy with Gloria Brown during the Idaho St. contest. (Image: Michael P. Reese)

WBB Rolls Past Southern Miss, 92-79

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Five different Miners posted double-figure scoring totals as top-seeded UTEP toppled Southern Miss, 92-79, in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Conference USA Championships Thursday evening. The Miners (27-3) ad...
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Freshman Julian Washburn, seen here looking for an open teammate, put on a defensive showcase in UTEP's 52-41 win over UC Riverside Sunday afternoon in the Don Haskins Center. (Image: Jeff Taylor)

MBB: SMU 3-Pointers Sink UTEP, 57-48

DALLAS, Texas – Seniors Robert Nyakundi and Rodney Clinkscales combined to hit seven three-pointers in their final home game for SMU, as the Mustangs beat UTEP, 57-48, on Saturday afternoon at Moody Coliseum. The Miners close...
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UTEP head coach Tim Floyd storms up and down the court after being assessed his first technical and throwing his jacket off. He would be assessed another technical and automatically ejected from the game. Rice went on to win 68-61. (Image: Jeff Taylor)

MBB: Floyd Tossed, Miners Lose to Rice 68-61

EL PASO, Texas – It’s never easy or fair to say a team lost a game because of poor officiating, but that was indeed the case Wednesday night. Because of an errant call by one referee, UTEP head coach Tim Floyd was assessed ...
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Senior Gloria Brown goes up for a jump shot Sunday afternoon during UTEP's 52-48 loss to Rice. (Image: Michael P. Reese)

WBB: Rice Spoils Senior Day with 52-48 Win Over UTEP

EL PASO, Texas – With 500 people waiting outside before the game to get tickets and just under 6,500 people announced in attendance Sunday, no one would have thought that in the regular season home finale UTEP would have come...
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UTEP head coach Keitha Adams and the rest of the Miner team celebrate their 68-50 win over SMU Thursday night. The Miners clinched the regular season C-USA championship with the victory. (Image: Ivan Pierre Aguirre)

WBB: UTEP Brings Home C-USA Title with 68-50 Win Over SMU

EL PASO, Texas – With the anticipation of the Miners locking up the Conference USA regular season title, El Pasoans came out in force to the Don Haskins Center Thursday night. A season high 6,532 fans showed up to watch UTEP ...
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Senior Gabe McCulley had a momentum-shifting dunk late in the game Wednesday night as UTEP overcame a 16-point deficit and two overtime periods to defeat Southern Miss, 76-68, in the Don Haskins Center. (Image: Jeff Taylor)

MBB: What A Comeback! Miners Win In 2-OT, 76-68

EL PASO, Texas— It took not one, but two overtime periods for the Miners overcome a pesky Southern Miss, 76-68, Wednesday night at the Don Haskins Center. UTEP overcame a 16-point deficit thanks to freshman guard CJ Cooper wh...
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Gloria Brown was named the league’s player of the week, announced Monday afternoon by C-USA officials. (Image: Michael P. Reese)

WBB: Miners Move Up One Spot In AP Poll, Brown Honored

EL PASO, Texas – UTEP picked up 24 votes, seven more than last week, while inching up to 30th in the latest Associated Press top-25 poll released Monday. The Miners (24-2, 13-0 C-USA) went 2-0 on the road this past week, ...
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UTEP head coach Keitha Adams was all smiles Sunday afternoon as the Miners soundly defeated Houston, 87-43, in the Don Haskins Center. (Image: Michael P. Reese)

WBB: UTEP Claims Share Of C-USA Crown With 71-51 Win At Houston

HOUSTON, Texas – Four different Miners reached double figures in scoring to help UTEP down Houston, 71-51, and secure at least a share of the 2012 Conference USA crown in the process in front of a very partisan Miner crowd a...
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Junior guard Jacques Streeter. (Image: Jeff Taylor)

MBB: UTEP Gets First Road Win, Upsets Memphis, 60-58

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Jacques Streeter scored 12 of his 14 points in the second half, and UTEP took its first lead of the game with 1:19 to play before holding on for a 60-58 victory at Memphis on Saturday afternoon. The Miners (1...
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