Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
Unaffiliated but friendly with the University of Utah, the Big 16 Conference, and other Pac-12 remnants
The 2025 Utah Utes lost three of their last four, while senior guard Kennady McQueen is out with an ankle sprain. The 2024 Utes ended their season with an NCAA second-round loss to host Gonzaga. They played their last 30 games without junior guard Gianna Kneepkens, lost to a broken foot. Last year, the Kneepkens […]
Among the trivial performance measures to amuse me over the years is the notion that if you sum a player’s FG%, 3FG%, and FT%, then multiply by 1000, and get a result of 1800 or better, you’ve got an excellent shooter. In other words, a player recording .500, .400, and .900 can shoot it. If […]
This is new: Writing a game after watching it on tape, even though I was there. A Telegraph Ave. burrito started to betray me around halftime of Utah at Cal, and by the fourth I thought it might come blasting out from both ends. At the buzzer, I skipped post-game interviews and staggered toward my […]
UCSB won by 25 at Northridge Thursday. Sophomore forward Alexis Whitfield had 11 points, 9 rebounds, and 3 steals in 20 minutes off the bench for the Gauchos. I think it was Dallas Maverick Jim Farmer who coined the term “billion” for a player line in an old-fashioned newspaper basketball score that indicates one minute […]
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 […]
In South Dakota State’s last three games, in which the Jackrabbits scored 94, 105, and 118 points, very senior guard Dru Gylten recorded: Opponent Minutes FG RB AS TO PTS North Dakota St. 23 3-5 0 6 0 9 North Dakota 20 4-7 4 6 2 12 South Dakota 19 3-4 3 6 1 12 […]
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 […]
The middle of January is too soon to name the conference freshman of the year, but barring injury, I think the frosting on the cake reads ‘Oregon St.’s Raegan Beers’. Beers recorded her 10th double (20 pt, 12 rb, two blocked shots of remarkable prescience) in the Beavers’ 79-69 win at Tempe Sunday. She won […]