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What’s become more obvious since Thursday? Stanford is lessened in the absence of Cameron Brink. Oregon State is lessened in the absence of Raegan Beers. Washington State is lessened in the absence of Charlisse Leger-Walker. Colorado is lessened in the absence of Jaylyn Sherrod. I’m sometimes capable of understatement. I still think UCLA is lessened […]
UCLA and Utah play an unusual Thursday game for ESPN’s sake. Who’s starting at the 3 for Utah tonight? I think it’ll be Wilke. Matyson looks like a confident shooter lately. Dasia Young hit a game-winner in traffic as a 6th man. Remember what a nice surprise Reese Ross was, many games ago? I’ll guess […]
Utah and Oregon State both won at the buzzer Friday. Oregon St. 79 UCLA 77 I watched this game twice. Score was tied 72-72 with 1:00 remaining. Van Oelhoffen stole the ball at 0:39.8, to deter Betts from an FGA beneath the basket. At 0:15.5, T. Gardiner made 2 FT to put the home team […]
Sometimes you hear “snap!” as a general exclamation of dismay or bewilderment. A young friend of mine said she’d try to make that her ‘new word’, and for the rest of the day, she reacted to everything with “aw, snap!”. It didn’t stick with her, but it evidently has never left me. Stanford and Cal […]
USC 81 Arizona 64 The host Trojans assisted on 22 of their 27 FGM, and they did so in the darndest fashion. Juju Watkins threatened to break down her defender one-on-one, until one or two Wildcats went to help. Then Watkins gave up the ball to get 4 assists, and if the ball kept moving, […]
I’ve yet to watch Friday’s games, other than Oregon St. 58 Utah 44. That game was so deflating, I forgot about basketball.. Fuckin’ Oregon State, man. The Beavers beat Utah Sunday; with emphasis, and at Salt Lake. Five Utes of nine made 0 assists. Maybe 200 teams always have five players making 0 assists. But […]
Among the six Pac-12 teams above .500, four of them are playing against a team below .500. The other two — Oregon St. and Utah — play each other. One-half game separates the Beavers and the Utes, so there are heavy tiebreaker implications. I haven’t been writing, which is the surest indicator that I’m not […]
I venture that had Utah visited the Oregon State Beavers Friday rather than the Oregon Ducks, it would’ve been Utah’s misfortune instead of Colorado’s. The Beavers, newly entered in the Top 25, beat #3 Colorado 68-62 in Corvallis. Meanwhile, #16 Utah sputtered at Eugene. The Pac-12 Network reported OSU coach Rueck said that the Beavers […]
Utah outscored UCLA 22-9 in overtime, and the #16 Utes won 94-81 at home Monday vs. the #2 Bruins. Utah junior Kennady McQueen scored 8 of her game-high 21 in the overtime period. McQueen also had a game-high 9 rebounds. UCLA took their first lead of the 2nd half with 0:54 remaining, 71-70. A UCLA […]
I’m eager to play chess Saturday, because I haven’t completely been at the board on Friday nights. I’ve played three draws against three lower-rated opponents so I could get home to watch basketball. It occurred to me that Coach Rob would talk to me about this. When you’re not playing hard, you don’t want the […]