by Andrew Brown | Apr 29, 2022 | Basketball
SALT LAKE CITY — It didn’t take long to realize that Utah women’s basketball coach Lynne Roberts had turned around a program hoping to compete in a difficult Pac-12 Conference last season. Through a series of recruiting moves to bolster the depth of the...
by Andrew Brown | Apr 28, 2022 | Basketball
Fast Breaks: High ceiling … big and athletic … plays really hard and has the talent to be tremendous in the Pac-12. 2020-21 (Freshman): Played in 20 games, averaging 15.1 minutes, 3.9 points, 4.4 rebounds and a team-high 1.1 blocks per...
by Andrew Brown | Feb 24, 2022 | Basketball
What we learned on the third-to-last — or antepenultimate, for all you wordsmiths out there — weekend of the regular season … 1. The committee likes Arizona, and UCLA As expected, the Wildcats were a No. 1 seed in the NCAA selection committee’s reveal of the...
by Andrew Brown | Feb 24, 2022 | Basketball
Texas’ Timmy Allen, Arizona’s Pelle Larsson and Illinois’ Alfonso Plummer among the transfers who are playing for better teams, likely bound for NCAA Tournament Last Saturday proved to be an eventful day for University of Utah men’s basketball fans, and not just...
by Andrew Brown | Feb 24, 2022 | Basketball
Best team to visit Salt Lake City in quite some time brings new coach Tommy Lloyd of Gonzaga fame, a lofty national ranking, and an eight-game winning streak to Salt Lake City When Arizona hired longtime Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd last April to replace the fired...
by Andrew Brown | Feb 24, 2022 | Basketball
SALT LAKE CITY — The difference between a win and a loss hung in the balance as a last-ditch half-court heave by California’s Jordan Shepherd flew through the air with time expiring on the clock Saturday night. The shot had the distance but hit the left side of...