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Maween (sp?), Center, came out of Granger High, played at Night with the Running Utes then was red-shirted. Transferred to Kansas State where he played a significant role.

Doesn’t like to stay in the same place. Given he burned us a few years ago, I wouldn’t even look at him.

Crazy that we had a better percentage for treys than from the charity stripe.

On a neutral court, Utah beat a good Wake Forest team and played well in losses to Houston and St. John’s. Also crushed Arizona State in Vegas before running into a red hot Colorado team.

Rollie was a consistent performer always good for about 10 points, 5 boards and 5 assists. Very seldom had an unproductive outing. Missed his own triple double last year when Anthony took away a late rebound from him.

Would be nice for him to stick around.

Tarlac just never seemed to play consistently at the college level. Very surprised if he is still around next season and as always, wish him well whatever path his life takes him.

Keita has the body and athleticism to become a great basketball player. Still in need of fine-tuning many parts of his game (in particular needs to improve his outside shooting skills). I hope he’ll stay with Utah another year at least, but he’ll certainly be a very attractive and sought after target in the transfer portal.

As he played…[Read more]

I guess one nice thing about having a hoops program stuck in mediocrity is we aren’t worrying about our coach being poached by other programs.

I feel for our brothers up north. Any time a team/coach (especially football and men’s hoops) shows promise, someone comes in with a $$$$$ offer that they can’t refuse.

3 of us will be there Wednesday night. Will note that parking is FREE for these NIT games (in the parking garage as well as lots directly south of the garage).

Good game by Ian Martinez. I seem to remember in his year with Utah, he played very sparingly until the last few weeks when he had some minutes and went off. Made me wonder where he had been for most of the season. Wish we could have held onto him.

Tough call on the last clean block. But you let a player get that far out in front, it will be rare to make that block from behind and not be called.

It’s ironic that we see all of these late reviews where they take several minutes to make sure we know who touched the ball last (when you can tell after about 10 seconds what the call should be),…[Read more]

Really ******ed up if ESPN decides on the 930 slot.

And speaking of ESPN, what was with all the extra ‘media time outs’ last night?

I try to avoid complaining about officials (and would not write this had we lost) but my goodness (from my perspective) there seemed to be great inconsistency in calling (or not calling) moving screens last night.

But we beat a decent team (who won at USC and lost by a point at SDSU). Brandon was in beast mode, with others having fine…[Read more]

NIT <<<< Big Dance, but

NIT >>>>> no post season.

Will be there (late) tomorrow night to cheer the team on.

After over a half decade with no post season play at all, making the NIT is a slight improvement. I think we’re pretty much a lock to get a bid, not sure if we will get a seed high enough to host a game or two however.

I’ll still watch team in the NIT (and attend any home games). If anything to take my father (we’ve had season tix for hoops/football for a long time and he took me to my first Utah basketball game in 1969) and enjoy another night or two cheering on our Utes.

Has a long history of poor behavior (such as the time he met someone to buy/sell a used smart phone, pulled out a gun, and left with all the phones and all their $$$). Sad that someone with all this history could be walking around and able to cause more pain and suffering.

He has a brother who is also awaiting trial (I believe still awaiting trial anyway) for allegedly killing an individual who had apparently won or tricked him out of some money during some sort of ‘matching game’ at an athletic shoe convention at the Salt Palace.

(Not nice to cheat during such a game, but doesn’t justify killing someone).

A very happy day which ended a rather long losing streak to that opponent. Putting 57 points on the board was significant, but Tausinga’s rumble into the end zone which put us up 21-0 gave me the feeling that this just might be the day.

I miss the Majerus seasons of stellar defense where teams would regularly shoot in the 30% range and star players would have career lows in scoring against us.