Utah coach Lynne Roberts high-fives gamers on the bench after the group’s victory over Washington State within the Pac-12 girls’s event Thursday, March 3, 2022, in Las Vegas. David Becker, Related Press
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The Utah girls’s basketball group wrote fairly the Cinderella story in Las Vegas throughout the Pac-12 event.
A No. 6 seed, the Utes superior to the championship sport, the place they fell to the defending nationwide champion, and high seed, Stanford. Their run included an upset of Oregon.
Although disenchanted with the defeat to the Cardinal, Utah is eagerly awaiting Choice Sunday and persevering with its season.
In the meantime, coach Lynne Roberts stated her group made a press release throughout the Pac-12 event. And there’s extra of that to come back.
“I'm motivated to get again right here and really climb the ladder to chop (the nets) down, and it'll occur,” stated Roberts. “We are going to do it. We will probably be again.”
Numbers sport
6: Seed of the Utah girls’s basketball group that superior to the Pac-12 championship sport.
24: Factors scored by Utah freshman Gianna Kneepkens, on her nineteenth birthday, within the Utes’ upset of Oregon.
198.575: Group rating for the Pink Rocks towards Minnesota on senior evening, the second finest in Utah historical past and tied for the most effective rating by any group within the nation this season.
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So happy with this group. They could effectively have taken the measure of Stanford, however 4 video games in 5 nights is brutal, to say the least. That isn't a good and even affordable bracketing. I like their fireplace, and with the coach saying she desires to ‘lower down the nets’ ... that’s my form of coach. Approach to go, Girl Utes. You made it by the bracket to achieve the ultimate sport. The expertise you had in doing so can pay nice dividends subsequent season.
—high of the world
Utes undoubtedly must preserve their heads up, that was superior run to get to the championship sport! Because the article states, it did appear to be they simply ran out of fuel within the second half and Stanford took benefit. Wanting increasingly doubtless 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 Large Dance!
— Pacer
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March 11 | 6 p.m. | Baseball | vs. Washington | @Salt Lake Metropolis
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March 12 | 2 p.m. | Baseball | vs. Washington | @Salt Lake Metropolis
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