Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
Unaffiliated but friendly with the University of Utah, the Big 16 Conference, and other Pac-12 remnants
I could get in my car, and make it to the Galen Center in time for the 1 p.m. tip. It would be the most poorly-planned trip of my basketball life (postseason WNIT games and WNBA playoff games were as-announced, equally messy), but driving home without sleep would be a bad idea. If Utah doesn’t […]
What’s become more obvious since Thursday? Stanford is lessened in the absence of Cameron Brink. Oregon State is lessened in the absence of Raegan Beers. Washington State is lessened in the absence of Charlisse Leger-Walker. Colorado is lessened in the absence of Jaylyn Sherrod. I’m sometimes capable of understatement. I still think UCLA is lessened […]
Sometimes you hear “snap!” as a general exclamation of dismay or bewilderment. A young friend of mine said she’d try to make that her ‘new word’, and for the rest of the day, she reacted to everything with “aw, snap!”. It didn’t stick with her, but it evidently has never left me. Stanford and Cal […]
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 […]
I contacted Southern Cal’s media department, because holy shit, have you looked at the Trojans’ schedule through the first week of February?! In three days, USC hosts UCLA, who look like a national finalist. Next week, USC visits the Rocky Mountains for their hardest in-conference road trip. End of January, USC hosts the Washingtons, the […]
#14 Indiana hosts #3 Iowa Feb. 22 in a game that’s already sold out. IU’s media department reported that half of Assembly Hall’s 17K seating went to Indianans who want to see what the WNBA Indiana Fever are getting with #1 draft pick Caitlin Clark. Which strikes me as odd. IU is telling us that […]
All 12 teams in the terminal Pac-12 are playing another this weekend. The mountain teams should skunk the Arizonas in Arizona. The southern California teams should handle the Oregons more handily than that, at home. The Washingtons at the Bay Bridge schools are toughest to call. If I didn’t want to get off to a […]
Utah beat Carroll College 100-44 on kids’ day, when a caravan of schoolbuses drops off thousands of screaming kids, with the purpose of annoying writers. The WNBA used to rotate kids’ days around the league, sending every league mascot to the same gym. They perform a brawl scene, and the homer mascot wins. Last time […]
I’ll see Stanford for the first time today. My habit has been to underestimate Stanford in November, and overestimate the Cardinal in March. Colorado beat Louisiana State, then lost to North Carolina State. In hindsight, I interpret that as LSU’s drama bubbling up as early as game one. I watched the first quarter of Utah […]
I spent most of the day pondering the Charissa Thompson case. A Fox Sports sideline reporter, Thompson said in a podcast that occasionally, she fabricated coaches’ remarks if she didn’t connect with the coach. Others in the sports media field were displeased. I think they’re overdoing their rebuke. When Erin Andrews — one of the […]