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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.

Does the 4-22 record include the time we beat them in a very low scoring game in the tourney when Swoop was on stilts and reached down and beheaded the Duck mascot?

We have one single win in Eugene in the PAC12 era (and just 2 in Salt Lake)

Easily our hardest conference opponent since we joined.

Winning today and one or more games in Vegas massively important to go dancing.

Zags winning at St. Mary’s last night hurt. Doesn’t really diminish our win over the Gaels which remains a solid quad 1 road win, but boosts Gonzaga’s resume and they too are on the bubble.

I don’t give a shit what Zoobs on that board say.

Helped our ratings last season to have very few late games.

I had BYU on my list before removing them as some Utah fans hate the idea of us being linked to them, but very likely we are stuck with each other for quite a while.

Indeed ideally bring more ‘western’ teams (consisting of some/all of Utah, Zona, ASU, Cal, Stanford, Colorado, BYU) into the Big10 and make a western division (with the 4 who…[Read more]

Imagine down the road (5-10 years) a reformed PAC looking like this

Oregon State
Wazzou
Cal
Stanford
Utah
UNLV
Arizona
ASU
SDSU
Fresno State
Colorado
Air Force

Somewhat logical travel pairs for hoops
Would move conference football and basketball title events back to Sin City
All the teams are in a couple of time zones and we can drive to pretty…[Read more]