LAS VEGAS (AP) — Taylor Funk’s 32 points led Utah State over New Mexico 91-76 on Thursday in the Mountain West Conference tournament quarterfinals. The third-seeded Aggies will face the tournament’s No. 2 seed, Boise State, in Friday’s semifinal. Funk shot 10 for 16 (6 for 10 from 3-point range) […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jason Spurgin led third-seeded Southern Utah with 19 points and sealed the victory with a layup with 53 seconds remaining as the Thunderbirds turned back upset-minded Utah Tech, the tournament’s No. 11 seed, 76-75 on Thursday in the Western Athletic Conference tournament quarterfinals. Spurgin also contributed […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Justin Harmon scored 23 points to lead Utah Valley to a 72-58 victory over Tarleton on Thursday night in the quarterfinal round of the Western Athletic Conference Tournament. Harmon added three steals for the second-seeded Wolverines (25-7). Trey Woodbury scored 21 points and grabbed seven rebounds. […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Lauri Markkanen scored 31 points, Talen Horton-Tucker added 23 and the Utah Jazz snapped a four-game losing streak with a 131-124 win over the Orlando Magic on Thursday night. Simone Fontecchio scored 17 points for Utah, and rookie center Walker Kessler’s 13 points and 10 rebounds […]
OGDEN, Utah-Thursday, Weber State men’s basketball head coach Eric Duft was named as a finalist for the Joe B. Hall Award. This award, named in honor of the former Regis (Colo.) and Kentucky head coach, is presented to the top first time head coach in Division I men’s basketball annually. […]
Utah Jazz (31-35, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (27-39, 13th in the Eastern Conference) Orlando, Florida; Thursday, 5 p.m. MST BOTTOM LINE: Utah is looking to break its four-game losing streak with a win against Orlando. The Magic have gone 15-18 at home. Orlando is seventh in […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Brandon Angel’s double-double of 16 points and 12 rebounds led a balanced attack that lifted 10th-seeded Stanford to a 73-62 win over seventh-seeded Utah in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament on Wednesday night. Angel followed up two free throws with a jumper that gave the Cardinal […]
Coming off an unprecedented performance at the world championships, 18-year-old Jordan Stolz is already facing the inevitable comparisons to the greatest speed-skater of them all. Eric Heiden. Stolz chuckles a bit at being mentioned in the same sentence with the guy who won five gold medals — in five individual […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Cameron Gooden scored 22 points and Frank Staine scored 18 points and Utah Tech offered a mild surprise Stephen F. Austin 80-76 in overtime in a Western Athletic Conference Tournament opener on Tuesday night. Isaiah Pope scored 14 points and reserve Dancell Leter 12 for the […]
