Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
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West Coast Conference leader Gonzaga visits San Francisco and Santa Clara this week. I think I should go to at least one of those games, because I’ve never actually seen Brynna Maxwell set a gym on fire. I’m a little amused that she almost surely wouldn’t know me on sight (same with Kemery Martin at […]
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. […]
With the exception of Arizona, every team in the region with a record better than.500 plays another Sunday. The Big 10 teams host the mountain teams, with tournament seed implications. I’d watch those games, but I’m off to watch two old men voice cartoon laboratory mice.
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Oregon St. survived an elegant Oregon comeback run, and won 69-66 Friday in Corvallis. The Beavers led 63-51 with less than 3 minutes left. The Ducks hit 4-of-4 3-point attempts in two minutes to make it 65-63 at 0:59, but all-conference senior Endiya Rogers missed a layup that would’ve tied it at 67. The win […]
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 […]