Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
Unaffiliated but friendly with the University of Utah, the Big 16 Conference, and other Pac-12 remnants
This is new: Writing a game after watching it on tape, even though I was there. A Telegraph Ave. burrito started to betray me around halftime of Utah at Cal, and by the fourth I thought it might come blasting out from both ends. At the buzzer, I skipped post-game interviews and staggered toward my […]
Cal’s problem this season is playing 40 minutes, but they’re almost there. The Golden Bears were the equal of the Powder Blue Bears last week for three quarters, then vanished. (For one, senior guard Kemery Martin made her first eight shots — a few in a spectacular fashion I didn’t know she had in her […]
Oregon St. survived an elegant Oregon comeback run, and won 69-66 Friday in Corvallis. The Beavers led 63-51 with less than 3 minutes left. The Ducks hit 4-of-4 3-point attempts in two minutes to make it 65-63 at 0:59, but all-conference senior Endiya Rogers missed a layup that would’ve tied it at 67. The win […]
Stanford put last weekend behind them, and beat Utah 74-62 at Maples. Stanford’s Jones-Brink-Jump nucleus scored 63 points and gathered 27 rebounds, to go with 8 assists (other Cardinal made 4 field goals) and 5 blocks. Utah attempted 26 threes, and made 5. The Utes’ 3FG% in their first 16 games was .352, which dropped […]
UCSB won by 25 at Northridge Thursday. Sophomore forward Alexis Whitfield had 11 points, 9 rebounds, and 3 steals in 20 minutes off the bench for the Gauchos. I think it was Dallas Maverick Jim Farmer who coined the term “billion” for a player line in an old-fashioned newspaper basketball score that indicates one minute […]
A favorite cliche in sports media is “two teams going in different directions”. You can’t say that about #4 Stanford and #8 Utah, who play tonight in Maples, but they are two teams in different places. The Cardinal counted on a 1-2-3 in Brink, Jones, and Jump, I think we can agree. Look at how […]
I’ve never seen some things, like: I hate to think it*. You hate to think it. It’s not unthinkable. I wouldn’t have been surprised if Coach VanDerveer retired after winning the NCAA championship in 2021. That would’ve been a storybook moment, when she’s done everything a coach can do, and then some. Neither was I […]
West Coast Conference player of the week Brynna Maxwell leads the nation in 3FG% by a mile. The perimeter defense in the West Coast Conference suits her. Whether you sense me smirking with that observation is up to you. Love that kid, one of the purest shooters I’ve seen, but I’m somewhat disappointed in her […]
In South Dakota State’s last three games, in which the Jackrabbits scored 94, 105, and 118 points, very senior guard Dru Gylten recorded: Opponent Minutes FG RB AS TO PTS North Dakota St. 23 3-5 0 6 0 9 North Dakota 20 4-7 4 6 2 12 South Dakota 19 3-4 3 6 1 12 […]
I said around Halloween that the AP poll was off for ranking Stanford as the preseason #2, because losing the Hull sisters and Anna Wilson to graduation was going to affect Stanford more than the voters thought. My friend the Stanford season ticketholder agreed that the voters weren’t accounting for Lexie Hull’s intangibles. (Whereas the […]