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 […]
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 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 […]
Did you know Utah has a technical university, with about 20 paths of computer science study? Did you know the Utah Tech Trailblazers reclassified as D1 in 2019, and joined the the Western Athletic Conference? Did you know UTAH TECH anagrams to HATCHET U? Got you with that one. In St. George, Utah Tech hosts […]
Hooboy, I’m more tired than usual. Fell asleep during Oregon at Portland, and Pacific at Arizona State. I’m not sure why. Some writers exert themselves in harrowing adventure, or running through airports. I sit on my butt, fueled with coffee and Spindrift. Advent of Code started, and that’s hard on my brain, because I’m not […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stanford 62 Oregon 54 I told you Cameron Brink would triple with points, rebounds, and blocks. I didn’t think she’d do it the next day. I also said Stanford would crush Oregon, because Oregon isn’t such a good basketball team, ranked in the Top 25 earlier because sportswriters like Coach Graves, and don’t like change. […]
UCLA at Colorado: Tied with 2 seconds left in overtimeOregon St. at Stanford: Tied with 2:10 in the fourthOregon at Cal: 1-point game with 1:28 remainingSouthern Cal at Utah: UU’s 20-point lead reduced to 6 with 3:06 to go As ever, it’s in how you want to look at it. I think: This is why […]
Oregon at Cal Cal is likely to run into Arizona, Washington St., or Oregon in the first round of the conference tournament. How good is the Pac? Arizona and Oregon could finish in the top 25 yet have to win four games in the tournament. That’s bad news for #11 Cal and #12 Arizona St. […]