The UTEP women travel to Louisiana Tech on Saturday for a 1 p.m. Mountain time road game in a new perch that offers quite a view.
For the first time in coach Kevin Baker's three-year tenure, for the first time in half a decade, the Miners are the team with a target on their chest, and a squad emerging as an elite contender in Conference USA.
After beating Southern Miss for their third consecutive blowout to start C-USA play, 16th-year Golden Eagles coach Joye Lee-McNelis said UTEP "very well may be the best team in the league," and at this early stage they are.