For the second straight year, the UTEP women’s basketball team gets upended and eliminated from the Conference USA tournament by Old Dominion. This year the Miners’ rocky season came to an end with an 80-70 loss to the Monarchs.
UTEP (8-23, 5-14 C-USA) finished with their fewest wins in over a decade in program history. Last season the Miners lost nine players from their C-USA regular season championship team, including the loss of all five starters who helped earn head coach Keitha Adams the impressive 29-5 overall record (16-2 C-USA) in 2015-16.
Due to the departures of different key players, Adams rebooted her depth chart with 12 athletes that competed in their first year of Division 1 basketball for the 2016-17 season, six being true freshman.