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Sunday, November 25
Fullerton, Calif.
12:00 PM
University of Utah
3-3
57
vs
79
Northwestern
5-1
1
2
F
Northwestern
28
51
79
Utah
24
33
57
Utah Falls in Final Game at Wooden Legacy
11/25/2018 2:46 PM | Men's Basketball
Northwestern downs the Utes 79-57 in fifth-place game.
FULLERTON, Calif. – Sedrick Barefield scored a team-high 15 points, but it was not enough as the Utah Runnin' Utes fell 79-57 to the Northwestern Wildcats in the fifth-place game of the Wooden Legacy on Sunday.
With the loss, Utah dropped to 3-3 overall, while Northwestern improved to 5-1 with the victory. The Utes will be back in action next weekend, taking on the Tulsa Golden Hurricane at home. The Utes and Golden Hurricane will tip-off at 3 p.m. next Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Huntsman Center.
GAME SUMMARY
Utah erased a nine-point first half deficit, outscoring the Wildcats 14-8 over the final seven minutes of the period to trail by just four points at the break, but turnovers were key to the Utes losing effort on Sunday. Utah registered a season-high 21 turnovers, which led to 26 Wildcat points.
Utah shot .462 (18-of-39) overall from the field and converted .842 (16-of-1) of its free throw attempts, but were just 5-of-16 from downtown (.313) in the game. NU shot .509 (27-of-53) overall and converted .476 (10-of-21) from three-point range.
PLAYERS OF THE GAME
Barefield poured in another double-digit scoring effort, notching 15 points on 3-of-5 shooting overall. He was 3-of-4 from downtown and a perfect 6-of-6 from the free throw line. Novack Topalovic scored eight points on a perfect 4-of-4 effort from the field. Donnie Tillman led the way on the boards, grabbing a team-high seven rebounds on the day.
GAME QUOTES
Head Coach Larry Krystkowiak
Opening Statement:
"I thought it was definitely a much more physical game on their side. They took us out of cuts. I didn't think we were playing very hard on offense in the first half. Thirteen turnovers and yet we were only down four, it was encouraging. I think for us it's the importance of having five guys on the floor that are all connected, and it seems like at this point, we just aren't getting enough consistency. There's one breakdown and you're only going to be as strong as your weakest link. Inability to handle pressure, wrong coverage, we just have to make some plays. We're putting ourselves in too high of a risk category because it seems like we have a number of cases where there's a guy that isn't doing his job and it hurts us collectively. Those things added up today. Number of shots is key, and I think we just shot ourselves in the foot with the number of turnovers we had. We just almost 50%, it wasn't glaring that way, but we just didn't get enough shots. We have to get back to Utah, back to the drawing board and we have a lot of work to do as a coaching staff to make some improvement and we look forward to that process."
With the loss, Utah dropped to 3-3 overall, while Northwestern improved to 5-1 with the victory. The Utes will be back in action next weekend, taking on the Tulsa Golden Hurricane at home. The Utes and Golden Hurricane will tip-off at 3 p.m. next Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Huntsman Center.
GAME SUMMARY
Utah erased a nine-point first half deficit, outscoring the Wildcats 14-8 over the final seven minutes of the period to trail by just four points at the break, but turnovers were key to the Utes losing effort on Sunday. Utah registered a season-high 21 turnovers, which led to 26 Wildcat points.
Utah shot .462 (18-of-39) overall from the field and converted .842 (16-of-1) of its free throw attempts, but were just 5-of-16 from downtown (.313) in the game. NU shot .509 (27-of-53) overall and converted .476 (10-of-21) from three-point range.
PLAYERS OF THE GAME
Barefield poured in another double-digit scoring effort, notching 15 points on 3-of-5 shooting overall. He was 3-of-4 from downtown and a perfect 6-of-6 from the free throw line. Novack Topalovic scored eight points on a perfect 4-of-4 effort from the field. Donnie Tillman led the way on the boards, grabbing a team-high seven rebounds on the day.
GAME QUOTES
Head Coach Larry Krystkowiak
Opening Statement:
"I thought it was definitely a much more physical game on their side. They took us out of cuts. I didn't think we were playing very hard on offense in the first half. Thirteen turnovers and yet we were only down four, it was encouraging. I think for us it's the importance of having five guys on the floor that are all connected, and it seems like at this point, we just aren't getting enough consistency. There's one breakdown and you're only going to be as strong as your weakest link. Inability to handle pressure, wrong coverage, we just have to make some plays. We're putting ourselves in too high of a risk category because it seems like we have a number of cases where there's a guy that isn't doing his job and it hurts us collectively. Those things added up today. Number of shots is key, and I think we just shot ourselves in the foot with the number of turnovers we had. We just almost 50%, it wasn't glaring that way, but we just didn't get enough shots. We have to get back to Utah, back to the drawing board and we have a lot of work to do as a coaching staff to make some improvement and we look forward to that process."
Team Stats
NU
UTAH
FG%
.509
.462
3FG%
.476
.313
FT%
.682
.842
RB
28
26
TO
15
21
STL
4
5
Game Leaders
Pts
15
FGM
3
3FGM
3
FTM
6
Pts
9
FGM
3
3FGM
0
FTM
3
Pts
8
FGM
4
3FGM
0
FTM
0
Pts
7
FGM
3
3FGM
1
FTM
0
Players Mentioned
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