UTEP women's basketball coach Keitha Adams has preached to her team about its need to deny opponents their strengths.
For one quarter, a Florida Atlantic team that came in winless in Conference USA, mired in a 15-game losing streak, showed off the one identifiable thing it does well: bomb in 3-pointers.
The rest of the way, UTEP showed it can learn and adapt. In an early 10-point hole when FAU made 6-of-9 3s in the opening period, the Miners held the Owls to 3-of-19 from beyond the arc the rest of the way and snapped a six-game losing streak with a 69-59 victory.