Utah Women’s Basketball Snuffs Out UVU, 97-27

SALT LAKE CITY- Monday’s contest towards Idaho might have left rather a lot to be desired for Utah ladies’s basketball, however Friday’s contest towards UVU didn’t. Head coach Lynne Roberts mentioned as a lot in her post-game ideas with the Utes posting a dominating efficiency over the Wolverines, 97-27.

“Nice sport, actually arduous to nit-pick,” Roberts began. “I’m simply pleased with our crew. I challenged them to return out higher and begin the sport higher. Simply how we got here out towards Idaho in our first sport wasn’t good or ok. I feel we set the tone within the first 5 or 6 minutes.”

Utah Girls’s Basketball Leaders

One space that was noticeably higher than Monday was the capturing for Utah. As a crew the Utes have been 55% from the sphere, 46% capturing the three, and 80% from the road. The Utes made 11 complete three-point photographs of their win over the Wolverines.

Kennady McQueen led the cost in factors for the Utes posting 15 and accounting for 5 of the 11 Utah three level photographs.

Alissa Pili was as soon as once more Utah’s rebound queen hauling in eight free balls.

When it got here to assists on the afternoon, Ines Vieira was on the case for the Utes coming in scorching with 5.

The Utes have been additionally actually affective as a crew in forcing turnovers. A lot in order that they set a program report of 30 on the afternoon.

“It was a complete crew effort,” Roberts mentioned. “Everyone performed. Everyone scored fairly a bit.”

Scorching Shot, Kennady McQueen

McQueen is among the higher shooters on a crew that is superb at capturing the ball. McQueen mentioned a lot of Utah’s success Friday afternoon got here from being affected person and discovering the additional pass- one thing they weren’t doing on Monday.

“I feel what’s tremendous cool about once we are taking part in Utah basketball- once we play it for 40 minutes- that’s the outcomes we get,” McQueen mentioned. “These inside out threes- in the event that they take that away, that’s when our put up go to work. We actually exploited that and knew that coming into this sport that if we might play Utah basketball and make the additional pass- I believed that was the important thing tonight.”

Up Subsequent

The ladies shall be taking up Southeastern Louisiana Sunday night time, November 13 on the Huntsman Heart. Tipoff is 7 p.m. MT.

Michelle Bodkin is the Utah Utes Insider for KSLsports.com and host of each the Crimson Nook Podcast (SUBSCRIBE) and The Saturday Present (Saturday from 10 a.m.–12 p.m.) on The KSL Sports activities Zone. Observe her on Twitter and Instagram: @BodkinKSLsports

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