Completed Event: Women's Basketball at Eastern Kentucky on March 19, 2026 , Loss , 58, to, 72
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Pili Named to Naismith Trophy Midseason Watch List
2/7/2023 12:53 PM | Women's Basketball
The Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Monday the Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy Women's Midseason Watch List, and Utah's Alissa Pili was among the top 30 candidates.Â
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The competition will be narrowed down to 10 national semifinalists in early March. Following those results, four finalists will be named on March 21, 2023, and the winner of the 2023 Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy for Women's Player of the Year will be announced on March 29, 2023. The complete midseason watch list can be found here.
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Pili is one of four players from Pac-12 schools on the list, joined by Stanford's Cameron Brink and Haley Jones, and UCLA's Charisma Osborne.Â
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Pili is the leading scorer for the Utes, who are ranked No. 7 in this week's AP poll, Utah's highest ranking in program history. The Utes have a 20-2 overall record on the season and sit at No. 5Â in the nation in winning percentage. Pili leads the Pac-12 in scoring at 20.9 points per game and ranks 15th nationally. Her shooting percentage of 61.9 percent leads the Pac-12 and ranks 16th nationally.
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The junior from Anchorage, Alaska (Dimond High School) has a streak of scoring 20 or more points in seven consecutive games starting with her 27-point performance against Arizona on January 15 and most recently she put up a season high of 30 points in a 100-92 win over Oregon. Her back-to-back 28-point games in early December were the first consecutive games of 28 or more points by a Utah player since 2014, and she was the first Ute to do so in two road games since at least 1999-2000.
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Pili recently topped the 1,000-career-point mark, bringing 795 points from USC (2019-22) before her transfer to Utah prior to the 2022-23 season.
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Utah, 10-2 in the Pac-12 for the first time since joining the conference in 2011-12, will host Washington and Washington State this weekend. The Utes are the nation's fifth-highest-scoring team, averagingÂÂ 84.9 points per game, and rank fourth in field-goal percentage (49.3), fifth in scoring margin (+22.2) and seventh in assists (18.2).
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The competition will be narrowed down to 10 national semifinalists in early March. Following those results, four finalists will be named on March 21, 2023, and the winner of the 2023 Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy for Women's Player of the Year will be announced on March 29, 2023. The complete midseason watch list can be found here.
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Pili is one of four players from Pac-12 schools on the list, joined by Stanford's Cameron Brink and Haley Jones, and UCLA's Charisma Osborne.Â
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Pili is the leading scorer for the Utes, who are ranked No. 7 in this week's AP poll, Utah's highest ranking in program history. The Utes have a 20-2 overall record on the season and sit at No. 5Â in the nation in winning percentage. Pili leads the Pac-12 in scoring at 20.9 points per game and ranks 15th nationally. Her shooting percentage of 61.9 percent leads the Pac-12 and ranks 16th nationally.
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The junior from Anchorage, Alaska (Dimond High School) has a streak of scoring 20 or more points in seven consecutive games starting with her 27-point performance against Arizona on January 15 and most recently she put up a season high of 30 points in a 100-92 win over Oregon. Her back-to-back 28-point games in early December were the first consecutive games of 28 or more points by a Utah player since 2014, and she was the first Ute to do so in two road games since at least 1999-2000.
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Pili recently topped the 1,000-career-point mark, bringing 795 points from USC (2019-22) before her transfer to Utah prior to the 2022-23 season.
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Utah, 10-2 in the Pac-12 for the first time since joining the conference in 2011-12, will host Washington and Washington State this weekend. The Utes are the nation's fifth-highest-scoring team, averagingÂÂ 84.9 points per game, and rank fourth in field-goal percentage (49.3), fifth in scoring margin (+22.2) and seventh in assists (18.2).
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