Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
Unaffiliated but friendly with the University of Utah, the Big 16 Conference, and other Pac-12 remnants
UCSB won by 25 at Northridge Thursday. Sophomore forward Alexis Whitfield had 11 points, 9 rebounds, and 3 steals in 20 minutes off the bench for the Gauchos. I think it was Dallas Maverick Jim Farmer who coined the term “billion” for a player line in an old-fashioned newspaper basketball score that indicates one minute […]
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’ve never seen some things, like: I hate to think it*. You hate to think it. It’s not unthinkable. I wouldn’t have been surprised if Coach VanDerveer retired after winning the NCAA championship in 2021. That would’ve been a storybook moment, when she’s done everything a coach can do, and then some. Neither was I […]
West Coast Conference player of the week Brynna Maxwell leads the nation in 3FG% by a mile. The perimeter defense in the West Coast Conference suits her. Whether you sense me smirking with that observation is up to you. Love that kid, one of the purest shooters I’ve seen, but I’m somewhat disappointed in her […]
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 said Arizona 72 Oregon St. 69 on Jan. 6 figured to be one of the best games I’d see all year, but that had to be crazy. It was the first game of the season for me, and this is the mighty Pacific-12, where an instant classic is born every two hours. The games […]
News: Junior guard Alyssa Marin made four free throws in the last eight seconds to pull UC Santa Barbara ahead of Cal State Bakersfield 63-62 Wed. at the Thunderdome. Marin also completed the Gauchos’ last defensive stop with the rebound. Opinion: The UC Santa Barbara Thunderdome isn’t my favorite venue. I’ve received four parking tickets […]
Bloody hell. Arizona St. called in sick, and their visit to the Huntsman Center Friday is canceled. I wanted that game to happen. One, I had a quip about Utah’s pregame preparation for the Sun Devils (I might still think it’s funny before the Utes visit the Desert Financial Arena in Tempe Feb. 19). Two, […]
It takes a kind of someone to launch a blog when the team it purports to cover is 14-0 and ranked #8 in the nation. The same people in the SF Bay Area didn’t own any Giants baseball or Warriors basketball gear until those teams collected championships. Some folks can’t help it — when they’re […]