Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
Unaffiliated but friendly with the University of Utah, the Big 16 Conference, and other Pac-12 remnants
My seat in the Chase Center affords an excellent view of the pregame introductions. There’s a kid on every team who knows the ritual greeting for each starter. At Utah, it’s Alyssa Blanck. Here’s how I think this evolved: Long ago, the first player introduced would run on the court, then stand alone for a […]
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. […]
Cal’s problem this season is playing 40 minutes, but they’re almost there. The Golden Bears were the equal of the Powder Blue Bears last week for three quarters, then vanished. (For one, senior guard Kemery Martin made her first eight shots — a few in a spectacular fashion I didn’t know she had in her […]
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 […]
Stanford hasn’t lost a conference game in a while, so let’s imagine they’ll earn one of the double byes in the tournament. Who gets the other? Colorado (probably joining the top 25 Monday), #10 Utah, #14 Arizona, and #21 Oregon are within one game of each other in places 2-5. Arizona and Utah tip off […]
I thought the Pac-12 mountain teams would feel the transfer loss of three seniors from Utah and one from Colorado (whose best player graduated, to boot), but the Utes and Buffaloes are a combined 26-3, with +47 in scoring differential. Utah won 85-58 in Salt Lake on Dec. 14, with 42 points, 10 rebounds, 7 […]