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University of Utah
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Virginia
No. 16 Virginia Outlasts Women's Basketball
11/28/2008 12:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Nov. 28, 2008
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The Utah women's basketball team dropped its first game of the WBCA Classic, 65-57 to No. 16/15 Virginia.
The Utes (1-3) lost their third straight game. They were led by Morgan Warburton with 18 points and Katie King and Kalee Whipple with 10 each.
Whitney Edwards scored 15 points, Britnee Miller 13 and Aisha Mohammed 11 to pace the Cavaliers.
Although Virginia seemed to be a heavy favorite, the Utes made it a close game early by playing tough.
"It was a very physical game," Virginia head coach Debbie Ryan admitted.
Utah coach Elaine Elliott concurred.
"At this level everyone plays physically," she said.
The physical style allowed the Utes to hang with the Cavaliers for most of the first half.
Miller said the Utes played so hard that they disrupted the normally fluid Cavalier offense.
"They made it hard for us to run our plays," she said.
But the Cavaliers scored the last six points of the period on 3-pointers by Whitney and Ariana Moorer for a 28-22 halftime advantage and then ran off the first 10 points of the second half to grab a commanding 38-22 lead.
"It got to us a bit," Elliott said of Virginia's run. "But it sparked our comeback."
The Utes narrowed the Cavalier lead to four points with 26 seconds left at 59-55 on a shot by Warburton.
But Virginia free throws and defensive stops down the stretch sewed up the win.
Despite the loss, Elliott felt her team is getting better.
"We've played well the last few games. We're right there with some good teams like Virginia," she said.
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