Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
Unaffiliated but friendly with the University of Utah, the Big 16 Conference, and other Pac-12 remnants
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 […]
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 […]
I said Arizona 72 Oregon St. 69 on Jan. 6 figured to be one of the best games I’d see all year, but that had to be crazy. It was the first game of the season for me, and this is the mighty Pacific-12, where an instant classic is born every two hours. The games […]
Stanford beat Cal 60-56 Sunday at Haas, after trailing 56-53 with 4:08 left. The Golden Bears’ last six possessions resulted in three missed field goals, two missed free throws, and two turnovers. One of those field goal misses was open from the elbow, and late free throws are late free throws. Make those, and they […]