Whit on the D today

Whittingham said because Barnes knew a lot of Utah’s defensive schemes coming into the game, defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley and the defensive staff schemed up a different look to present something different. But it was apparent that Utah needed to return to its base defensive set.

“Bryson Barnes knows our defense inside and out, and so coach Scalley and the defensive staff came up with a few looks that he hadn’t seen with different personnel groups,” he said. “I’m not going to say it was bad, but when we settled back to our stuff that we do all the time, we seem to have more success.”