Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stanford put last weekend behind them, and beat Utah 74-62 at Maples. Stanford’s Jones-Brink-Jump nucleus scored 63 points and gathered 27 rebounds, to go with 8 assists (other Cardinal made 4 field goals) and 5 blocks. Utah attempted 26 threes, and made 5. The Utes’ 3FG% in their first 16 games was .352, which dropped […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]