UTEP’s Lulu McKinney drives for a layup against NMSU’s Tonishia Childress, left, and Brooke Salas, right Thursday night at the Don Haskins Center. (Photo: RUDY GUTIERREZ / EL PASO TIMES)
The young, rebuilding UTEP women's basketball team had too much pluck and pride and too much young talent to be buried in its own gym by New Mexico State Thursday night.