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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When I put my mind to avoiding spoilage of movie endings, sports scores, or news items, I can. Something happened within the University of Utah athletics department. It’s days-old, stale news, but I’m waiting for Coach Roberts to tell me about the car — or cars. Utah’s Crimson Collective — how that’s separate from the […]
Nevada 49UC Berkeley 76 Gianna Kneepkens’ season-ending injury has me looking at every team differently. For instance, Cal might’ve found a suitable complements-turned-replacements for Ioanna Krimili (the Golden Bears’ leading scorer until knee problems recurred) in McKayla Williams, who led the game in scoring with 20 Saturday, and Tennessee transfer Marta Suarez (14 ppg, 7 […]
Utah 74St. Joseph’s 48 Revisit the LaLooshian exchange in which media says: “In the absence of one of your best players, who needs to step up?”, and then the coach tries not to roll eyes before replying: “They all do”. In the case of the Utah women’s basketball team, stepping up to fill a Gianna […]
UCLA at Stanford was the most critical game on the schedule Sunday, and I still don’t know its result. I’m staying the bleep off the Internet until it’s rerun on P12 Network in 18 hours. It was a very bad idea to play chess Saturday, after attending UCLA at Cal plus watching Utah at Arizona […]
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 […]
So far, the best game Cal has played all season. Senior guard Kemery Martin has 5 points, 6! rebounds, 3 assists, and 1 steal in 19 minutes. Assuming Cal gave her a leadership role when she arrived, the Golden Bears might finally play up to its potential if Kemery — long ago, Utah’s high school […]