Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
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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’ve yet to watch Friday’s games, other than Oregon St. 58 Utah 44. That game was so deflating, I forgot about basketball.. Fuckin’ Oregon State, man. The Beavers beat Utah Sunday; with emphasis, and at Salt Lake. Five Utes of nine made 0 assists. Maybe 200 teams always have five players making 0 assists. But […]
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 […]
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 […]
Utah outscored UCLA 22-9 in overtime, and the #16 Utes won 94-81 at home Monday vs. the #2 Bruins. Utah junior Kennady McQueen scored 8 of her game-high 21 in the overtime period. McQueen also had a game-high 9 rebounds. UCLA took their first lead of the 2nd half with 0:54 remaining, 71-70. A UCLA […]
I’m eager to play chess Saturday, because I haven’t completely been at the board on Friday nights. I’ve played three draws against three lower-rated opponents so I could get home to watch basketball. It occurred to me that Coach Rob would talk to me about this. When you’re not playing hard, you don’t want the […]
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 […]
I read the media statement more carefully, and it was that outlet’s opinion that Utah coach Roberts is always quotable, and worthy of its personal award “state sportsperson of the year”. I think Coach Roberts evolved as “always quotable” around the time UConn visited. Record lot of media attention on that game, and Coach Roberts […]
Andy Kaufman was a performance artist at the turn of the ’80s. Whether you thought Kaufman comedian or anti-comedian, brilliant or ‘what the fuck’, was up to you. The producers of the classic sitcom “Taxi” so enjoyed Kaufman’s “foreign man” persona, they offered him a role based on the character. Kaufman never liked the idea, […]