Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
Unaffiliated but friendly with the University of Utah, the Big 16 Conference, and other Pac-12 remnants
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 […]
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 […]
The four best teams in the Pac-12 played amongst themselves last Sunday, though I’m loath to say that doesn’t include Utah. USC 73, UCLA 65 was so critical to the state of our dissolving conference that I watched that game despite knowing the score already. My takeaway from last weekend’s games — whereas you might’ve […]
During one of northern California’s coldest, wettest spells of the year, I spent Friday night in the garage. Around midnight, while I was compiling numbers from Stanford at Cal — Stanford 78Cal 51 Stanford was better and Cal was worse while Cameron Brink was on the floor. After factoring out the last five minutes of […]
48 Texas at San Antonio61 Oregon The term “also ran” got its start in racing forms. One horse won, one horse placed, one horse showed, and the rest of the field “also ran”. “Also ran” is not such a bad thing. An Olympics also-ran is pretty effing great, whether in 4th place or last — […]
UCLA 95Florida St. 78 As UCLA brushed Florida St. aside, I had this thought: I’m in the 96th percentile of American chessplayers. If you put me across the board from Caruana or another player in the 100th percentile, the game begins 0-0, but eventually it’s windshield vs. bug, and it was never really close. Among […]
The Pac-12 Conference is so strong that you couldn’t rule out #10, #11, and #12 at tournament time. Cal and Oregon St. haven’t figured it out yet, but when that switch flips, forgotten teams suddenly reappear out of seemingly nowhere. The conventional wisdom about Cal is that they’re inconsistent. When a team is inconsistent for […]
Today, each of the six Pac-12 teams with league records greater than 7-7 plays against a conference opponent with a record less than 7-7. In almost every league in the country, that would make for a dreadful boring day, except #7 and #8 in the Pac-12 are Washington State and Oregon, who are vying for […]