Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
Unaffiliated but friendly with the University of Utah, the Big 16 Conference, and other Pac-12 remnants
Considering our respective rankings before last night’s chess game, I expected to beat my opponent quickly, leave the chess club early-ish, and save myself from watching basketball at dawn. That’s as hazardous a manner of thinking for chessplayers as it is for basketball teams (and any competitive entity); our game was next-to-last to finish, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I thought Arizona 72 Oregon State 69 will be remembered as one of the best games I’d see this season, despite 2.5 months remaining, and having seen none yet for comparison’s sake. In Tucson, the Wildcats and Ducks were tied at 53 with 8:04 to go. Oregon State ran 12-0 to restore the their long-standing […]