UTEP basketball players are looking forward to the season. Bret Bloomquist/El Paso Times
The UTEP women's basketball team is hitting that point of the preseason — just about halfway between Day 1 and the first scrimmage — where it can be a grind.
None of that applies to point guard Neidy Ocuane and small forward Ariona Gill.
This time a year ago, Ocuane and Gill were 54 weeks away from their first scrimmage. Ocuane was rehabbing her surgically repaired knee, while Gill was beginning a transfer year of sitting out, and this season's opening scrimmage coming up on Dec.