Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
Unaffiliated but friendly with the University of Utah, the Big 16 Conference, and other Pac-12 remnants
Here’s what I loved about the Great Alaska Shootout semifinal between Eastern Kentucky and Alabama-Birmingham: The host team Anchorage wasn’t involved. Therefore, the place was near empty, while the video coverage was unaccompanied. No games on the floor or Jumbotron to entertain the crowd at timeout. No cheerleaders, no band, no canned music or public […]
The standard cliche is that the only thing that stop a team is injury or themselves. OK, injury will take down any contender, but I don’t think “themselves” always applies. For that to work, I think a team must lack chemistry, or suffer internal distraction. For instance, LSU, whose players’ mothers bicker over social. Utah […]
Wasn’t so long ago that Oregon was absolutely loaded. The 2020 championship team included Ionescu, Sabally, Hebert. Even as they moved on, there followed the second Sabally, Paopao, Rogers. I recognized only one of the 2024 Ducks, because 6-foot-8 post Philippina Kyei is hard to miss. At Grand Canyon — whose Coach Miller won about […]
Washington was one of the Pacific-12’s tougher representatives at the last NCAA tournament. The Huskies burst at the end, after a poor first-half in conference play. Washington looked really good vs. Pacific. I thought it could be acceptable for Washington if they play at least this well through non-conference play. The Huskies were better than […]
Say you want to talk to Batman, but you’re just an ordinary taxpayer in Gotham City. Maybe you can walk through dark alleys, hoping to get mugged. Or you call the Justice League, and leave a message. Good luck with that, but should your words to Batman get by all the gatekeepers, then, oh, reach […]
I’ve been questioning how much heart I want to put into this basketball season — I’ve not yet attended a game — but after chess class Tuesday, I watched the second quarter at Baylor in the school’s parking lot, then raced around at halftime looking for a sports bar (unsuccessfully). That sounds typical, at least. […]
Each year around this time, I have to ask myself how much I want to put into basketball. I can ponder some related questions around the clock. Is there a future in this? Prospects for the future diminished over time. Making a career change at 60 sounds absurd, while sports media has grown more and […]
You know that obnoxious fanspeak “you haven’t done this behavior, or gained this knowledge, so you lack legitimacy as a fan’”? I think my friend Rebecca could beat anyone at that game. She could talk to God, and there’d be something about the WNBA Rebecca knows and God doesn’t. I’m choosy about the items in […]
The host Mystics beat the Liberty —one of the best teams ever assembled — by 16 on opening night Friday, and it wasn’t that close. The second day of the season isn’t too early to second-guess a coach, is it? The 1983 Sixers were the first “superteam”, so it was their coach Billy Cunningham who […]
The WNBA season starts today, and so far, I’ve no plans to watch. How weird is it that the W hasn’t kept up with women’s college ball, which is booming. Some folks believe it very much is, considering the quality of the players who aren’t making the final cut — Charli Collier, the #1 pick […]