Utah Women’s Basketball Independent
Unaffiliated but friendly with the University of Utah, the Big 16 Conference, and other Pac-12 remnants
I know how sportswriters operate. For 10 days, you’ll read in forecasts and predictions related to the Pac-12 championship tournament that Stanford has an ace in the pocket because “they’ve been there”. Say Stanford and Utah get the #1 and #2 seeds, then beat USC and UCLA in the semifinals to set themselves for their […]
I used to tell this story too often and prematurely to make it a good story, but it might be appropriate and good now. Utah coach Roberts was named to the national coach of the year watch list yesterday. The Utes are ranked #4 by the AP, and a Pac-12 season championship game with #3 […]
LSU at South Carolina didn’t live up to the hype, though I kept myself amused with the thought that the Tigers — ranked #3 in the country — wouldn’t be among the top 4 in the Pacific-12.
Today, each of the six Pac-12 teams with league records greater than 7-7 plays against a conference opponent with a record less than 7-7. In almost every league in the country, that would make for a dreadful boring day, except #7 and #8 in the Pac-12 are Washington State and Oregon, who are vying for […]
I wince at the sound of ESPN announcer Ryan Ruocco’s voice. I don’t like televised basketball partly for Ruocco and announcers like him, but for Stanford at Arizona he was restrained, blessedly. With room to talk, color analyst Rebecca Lobo celebrated Stanford’s bigs, noting the Cardinal forwards are many in number and in inches. For […]
If the Wildcats came back, I didn’t see it. When Stanford crushed Washington State, I said it was good to see that Stanford can still do that. Then they hit an iceberg at Washington, which re-cast that shadow of doubt. Blowing out Arizona in Tucson might be seen as more meaningful than the win at […]
Back in the years when Coach Roberts’ Pacific teams were losing 23 games per season, my problem while planning a trip to the Big West Conference tournament was figuring how long I wanted to stay. Today, if I planned to attend the Pac-12 tournament — while Utah is on top of the standings — I […]
Sunday morning, my sister asked about my plans for the day. “Watching four basketball games”, I said. “Sounds like your ideal day”, she said. “When I started doing this as a hobby 17 years ago, I could do four games in a day. Sometimes that included flying and driving, then running back and forth from […]
Were I still using Twitter, this would’ve gone there: Kemery Martin just made two of the best passes of her career.
Given our continued record low temperatures, I wanted a hat with earflaps. Pulling down the cuff of a standard knit beanie used to do — before eyeglasses plus surgical masks. Now I’m set for a trip to the Rocky Mountains, Pacific Northwest, or, well, Berkeley for chess tonight.