Basketball: Women's

• UTEP is short for the University of Texas at El Paso

• The Penn State - University Park campus is located approximately 1,507 miles from the Mexican border. The UTEP campus is located approximately 1,507 feet from the Mexican border.

• In case you didn't know UTEP's mascot, they are the Miners, represented by the one and only Paydirt Pete.

• UTEP has played one major conference opponent all season, losing to Arizona State 47-45.

• UTEP's best player is senior forward Gloria Brown. Brown hasn't started a game all season. She averages less than 20 minutes per game. However, she leads the Miners in total points, blocks, steals and rebounds. According to UTEP coach Keitha Adams, Brown is just more comfortable coming off the bench.

• UTEP has three players on its roster from Latvia and a fourth from France. Keitha Adams has recruiting connections overseas through her Polish assistant coach Ewa Laskowska. There have been five international Lady Lions in the program's history: Pia Edinson (1986) from Sweden, Em Clements (1997-98) and Melanie Croser (2003-04) from Australia, Burcu Turan (2003), and Romana Vynuchalova (2005-06) from Slovakia.

• UTEP is a team that runs up and down the court in transition. This is also Alex Bentley's preferred offense, so it could be a quick tempo game with less set plays than usual.

• The film Glory Road chronicles Texas Western's (now known as UTEP) journey to the 1966 NCAA men's basketball championship as it fielded the first all-black starting lineup NCAA history. Part of this movie was filmed in none other than Baton Rouge, La.

• The Lady Lions took some time off Saturday to stroll the streets of New Orleans.

• The Lady Lions are not allowed to eat Louisiana gumbo this weekend. It messes with their diets for some reason.

• UTEP will play 15 players deep Sunday. Penn State will play 10, and the Lions are the healthiest they've been all season.

• Ariel Edwards is cleared to play. Both Washington and Edwards said they wouldn't be surprised if there was some rust, though. Her first full practice didn't come until after they arrived in Baton Rouge.

• Penn State hasn't played an NCAA Tournament game on the road since 2005, when the Lady Lions lost to Liberty in College Park, Md., 78-70. Penn State was the No. 4 seed that day. Liberty was No. 13. Coquese Washington was an assistant coach at Notre Dame during that time.

• In case you didn't already know this, Coquese Washington is a lawyer. She earned her Juris Doctor from Notre Dame law school is 1997. On a random note, click here to watch a (heavily edited) video of Coquese's son interviewing her about last season, courtesy of the Lady Lion basketball official Youtube channel. Psh, I'm a better reporter than that guy.