Utah girls’s basketball: Utes eyeing Selection Sunday using excessive
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The Utah girls’s basketball staff wrote fairly the Cinderella story in Las Vegas in the course of the Pac-12 event.
A No. 6 seed, the Utes superior to the championship recreation, the place they fell to the defending nationwide champion, and prime seed, Stanford. Their run included an upset of Oregon.
Though disillusioned with the defeat to the Cardinal, Utah is eagerly awaiting Selection Sunday and persevering with its season.
Meanwhile, coach Lynne Roberts stated her staff made an announcement in the course of the Pac-12 event. And there’s extra of that to return.
“I am motivated to get back here and actually climb the ladder to cut (the nets) down, and it will happen,” stated Roberts. “We will do it. We will be back.”
Numbers recreation
6: Seed of the Utah girls’s basketball staff that superior to the Pac-12 championship recreation.
24: Points scored by Utah freshman Gianna Kneepkens, on her nineteenth birthday, within the Utes’ upset of Oregon.
198.575: Team rating for the Red Rocks towards Minnesota on senior night time, the second finest in Utah historical past and tied for one of the best rating by any staff within the nation this season.
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Comments from freelancertamal readers
So happy with this staff. They might properly have taken the measure of Stanford, however 4 video games in 5 nights is brutal, to say the least. That will not be a good and even cheap bracketing. I like their hearth, and with the coach saying she desires to ‘cut down the nets’ … that’s my sort of coach. Way to go, Lady Utes. You made it by means of the bracket to succeed in the ultimate recreation. The expertise you had in doing so pays nice dividends subsequent season.
—prime of the world
Utes undoubtedly have to hold their heads up, that was superior run to get to the championship recreation! As the article states, it did seem like they simply ran out of gasoline within the second half and Stanford took benefit. Looking increasingly possible that it is going to be the ladies’s groups carrying the flag for the state within the NCAA event this 12 months, so good luck to each the Utes and the Cougars within the Big Dance!
— Pacer
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