The UTEP women's basketball team's path to victory has usually involved gritting past sustained offensive dry spells with their tenacity and resiliency.
So it was in Thursday's 64-54 victory over Louisiana Tech in the quarterfinals of the Conference USA championships that set up Friday's rubber match semifinal with No. 25 Middle Tennessee.
More:C-USA basketball tournament brackets
After building a 13-point lead in the opening minutes of the third quarter the Miners made three of their next 22 shots and fell behind by two points early in the fourth, but never stopped grinding.