UTEP Miners women's basketball

UTEP Miners
UTEP Miners
	2024–25 UTEP Miners women's basketball team
University	University of Texas at El Paso
Head coach	Keitha Adams (2nd season in 2nd stint, 18th overall season)
Conference	Conference USA; (Mountain West in 2026–27)
Location	El Paso, Texas
Arena	Don Haskins Center ; (capacity: 12,222)
Nickname	Miners
Colors	Dark blue, orange, and silver accent;
Uniforms
NCAA tournament round of 32
	2008
NCAA tournament appearances
	2008, 2012
Conference tournament champions
	2012
Conference regular season champions
	2008, 2012, 2016

The UTEP Miners women's basketball team represents University of Texas at El Paso in women's basketball. The school competes in Conference USA in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Miners play home basketball games at Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas. Keitha Adams enters her second stint as head coach in 2023, returning after coaching the Miners from 2001 to 2017.

History

As of the end of the 2022–23 season, the Lady Miners have a 638–734 all-time record.^[2]

Season	Coach	Record	Conference Record	League finish
1974–75	Carol Ammerman	11–5	n/a	No record on file
1975–76	Carol Ammerman	6–11	3–11	No record on file
1976–77	Carol Ammerman	13–12	4–9	No record on file
1977–78	Carol Ammerman	7–18	3–10	No record on file
1978–79	Wayne Thornton	9–16	1–11	No record on file
1979–80	Janet Wood	11–16	2–8	No record on file
1980–81	Janet Wood	14–14	4–6	No record on file
1981–82	Janet Wood	4–21	1–9	No record on file
1982–83	Janet Wood	4–20	n/a	No record on file
1983–84	Janet Wood	8–19	2–8	No record on file
1984–85	Janet Wood	4–24	1–9	No record on file
1985–86	Janet Wood	6–22	n/a	No record on file
1986–87	Ken Weeks	7–17	n/a	Independent
1987–88	Craig Roden	8–19	n/a	Independent
1988–89	Craig Roden	16–14	n/a	Independent
1989–90	Craig Roden	12–16	n/a	Independent
1990–91	Sandra Rushing	5–22	2–10	7th in WAC
1991–92	Sandra Rushing	11–17	4–10	6th in WAC
1992–93	Sandra Rushing	18–10	8–6	4th in WAC
1993–94	Sandra Rushing	10–16	5–9	T-5th in WAC
1994–95	Sandra Rushing	13–15	6–8	t4th in WAC
1995–96	Sandra Rushing	12–15	3–11	T-7th in WAC
1996–97	Sandra Rushing	13–12	5–11	7th in WAC Mountain
1997–98	Sandra Rushing	16–11	10–6	3rd in WAC Mountain
1998–99	Sandra Rushing	12–15	6–8	5th in WAC Pacific
1999-00	Sandra Rushing	5–22	2–12	7th in WAC
2000–01	Sandra Rushing	8–20	4–12	T-7th in WAC
2001–02	Keitha Adams	3–25	1–17	10th in WAC
2002–03	Keitha Adams	10–19	5–13	9th in WAC
2003–04	Keitha Adams	16–13	10–8	4th in WAC
2004–05	Keitha Adams	12–17	7–11	T-7th in WAC
2005–06	Keitha Adams	14–15	6–10	T-7th in C-USA
2006–07	Keitha Adams	22–8	10–6	T-4th C-USA
2007–08	Keitha Adams	28–4	16–0	1st in C-USA
2008–09	Keitha Adams	18–12	11–5	2nd in C-USA
2009–10	Keitha Adams	16–16	6–10	10th in C-USA
2010–11	Keitha Adams	16–14	7–9	9th in C-USA
2011–12	Keitha Adams	29–4	15–1	1st in C-USA
2012–13	Keitha Adams	22–10	8–8	5th in C-USA
2013–14	Keitha Adams	29–8	12–4	3rd in C-USA
2014–15	Keitha Adams	12–16	7–11	11th in C-USA
2015–16	Keitha Adams	29–5	16–2	1st in C-USA
2016–17	Keitha Adams	8–23	5–13	T-11th in C-USA
2017–18	Kevin Baker	17–14	7–9	T-7th in C-USA
2018–19	Kevin Baker	9–22	5–7	11th in C-USA
2019–20	Kevin Baker	16–14	8–10	7th in C-USA
2020–21	Kevin Baker	17–8	13–5	2nd in C-USA West
2021–22	Kevin Baker	14–15	6–12	11th in C-USA
2022–23	Kevin Baker	20–12	12–8	4th in C-USA
2023–24	Keitha Adams	12–19	6–10	8th in C-USA

Postseason appearances

NCAA tournament

Year	Seed	Round	Opponent	Result
2008	#7	First Round Second Round	#10 Western Kentucky #2 Stanford	W 92–60 L 54–88
2012	#13	First Round	#4 Penn State	L 77–85

WNIT

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
2014	First Round Second Round Third Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship	Arkansas State St. Mary's Colorado Washington South Dakota State Rutgers	W 74–64 W 76–64 W 68–60 W 73–63 W 66–63 L 54–56
2016	First Round Second Round Third Round Quarterfinals	Abilene Christian Arkansas State TCU Oregon	W 66–62 W 74–68 W 79–70 L 67–71