El Paso Times · Jan 6, 2017
UTEP surges past Louisiana Tech, 69-62
Buy PhotoThat senior Sparkle Taylor would reach 1,000 career points for the UTEP women's basketball team was inevitable.
That she would do it on a night when her coach Keitha Adams said she had the best defensive game of her career, on a night when UTEP pulled out their biggest win of the season, 69-62 over Louisiana Tech, made it special.
"What was great, the night when she got 1,000 points, is knowing she played her tail off on defense," Adams said of Taylor, who had 25 points, eight rebounds and four steals while becoming the 13th Miner to reach the 1,000-point plateau. "A thousand points is a lot of points. She and I had a little meeting this week, I challenged her on defense."