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Women's Basketball
vs Western Colorado (EXHIBITION)
Friday, March 17
Salt Lake City, UT
6:00 PM
University of Utah
16-15, 5-13
62
vs
72
UC Davis
24-7, 14-2
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UC Davis
24
16
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15
72
Utah
12
18
19
13
62
Photo by: Steve Wilson
Utah Falls to UC Davis in WNIT
3/17/2017 8:59 PM | Women's Basketball
HUGE congrats to our senior @pmc14_ ,who gave this program everything,on joining the 1,000th point club tonight in her last game in JHC! pic.twitter.com/nXVLstehxp
— Utah WBasketball (@UTAHWBB) March 18, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY – Utah's season came to an end with a 72-62 loss in the first round of the WNIT to UC Davis Friday night at the Jon M. Huntsman Center.
WNIT Bracket
The game wasn't without its milestones. Senior forward Paige Crozon entered the elite 1,000-point club on a pair of free-throws late in the second quarter. She is just one of 27 Utes to reach that plateau, and the second Ute this season as Emily Potter also hit 1,000 career points earlier this season in a win against Northern Arizona. Crozon finished her final game as a Ute with eight points and six rebounds.
"I have said it before but they don't come any better than Paige just in terms of the kind of person she is and that is what I just told the team," head coach Lynne Roberts said about her graduating senior. "I think the one thing we all can learn from Paige is that it was always maximum effort and team first. She is coachable and wants the team to do well.
"That being said, she is also high-achieving and wanted to play at a high level and wanted to do what she could do. It was always maximum effort and team first. If you have a whole roster that can buy in to that mentality, you will be pretty dog-gone good. I think that is what all of us learned from Paige."
Junior wing Tanaeya Boclair led Utah (16-15, 5-13) with 19 points while grabbing six rebounds and dishing out two assists. Junior wing Malia Nawahine finished the game with 15 points, five rebounds, two assists and two steals. Junior forward Emily Potter was the third Ute to score in double figures with 13 points, nine rebounds, three steals and three blocks.
Utah outscored the Aggies in the second and third quarters, but a 12-point deficit in the first period was too much to overcome. UC Davis was paced by sophomore forward Morgan Bertsch with 23 points.
"We haven't played in 15 days so I don't know if that was it," Roberts said. "You have to give UC Davis a lot of credit. They played really, really well and they kind of threw the first punch as I like to say.
"We started off down 10-0 and we lost by 10. I am not saying that is why we lost, but I don't know why we started that way. They played well and they got buckets when they needed to. We just seemed a little bit discombobulated. It is disappointed to finish in your last game to feel like you didn't play to your potential."
Utah went 0-for-3 to open the game as UC Davis went a perfect 4-for-4 from the floor, including back-to-back 3-pointers from sophomore guard Karley Eaton to pace a 10-0 run in the first two minutes of action. Roberts called a timeout in effort to regroup her squad, but the Aggies would extend the lead.
Potter's steal led to a layup from Boclair for the first Utah points. Boclair's three-point play cut the deficit to 15-5 midway through the first quarter. The Utes reached double figures on an in-bound play bucket from Nawahine, but trailed 24-12 at the end of the first quarter.
Boclair and Crozon drilled back-to-back 3-pointers early in the second quarter to pull within single digits at 26-18. The Aggies extended their lead to 12 again as Utah struggled from the floor during a two-and-a-half-minute scoring drought. Nawahine broke the skid on a three-point-play to make it 32-23. UCD missed its next five field-goal attempts and Utah was within eight at 36-28.
Crozon made her way to the foul line for a pair of free-throws, but the Aggies scored two more baskets to lead 40-30 at the end of the first half.
Boclair continued to be the hot hand for the Utes, opening the third quarter with two points to get within eight points again. Utah kept the momentum going with an 11-3 run to trail just 44-43. The Aggies responded with a three-point-play to go up 47-43. UCD pulled out to another eight-point lead, but Potter scored on back-to-buckets get within 50-47.
The Aggies drilled a 3-pointer at the third-quarter buzzer to push out to a 57-49 lead.
UCD connected on free throws to open the fourth quarter, but freshman wing Megan Jacobs drilled a 3-pointer in front of the Utah bench to trail 60-52. Both teams went scoreless for three minutes before Crozon split a pair of foul shots to make it 60-53 midway through the fourth.
Scoring picked up for both teams as Boclair scored a quick six points for Utah, but the Aggies would hold on for a 10-point victory to advance to the second round of the WNIT.
"We all have to get better and that is what I told the team," Roberts said. "I think our players as individuals need to get better and as a coach I need to look at what we can be better at. We need to evaluate everything and see what worked and what didn't."
Team Stats
UCD
UTAH
FG%
.458
.347
3FG%
.417
.190
FT%
.650
.500
RB
42
43
TO
15
15
STL
10
8
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
19
FGM
8
3FGM
1
FTM
2
Pts
15
FGM
6
3FGM
1
FTM
2
Pts
13
FGM
6
3FGM
0
FTM
1
Pts
8
FGM
2
3FGM
1
FTM
3
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