Utah Women's Basketball 2022-23 Season Wrap Up

FINAL BUZZER

• Utah's No. 2 seed is its highest in the NCAA Tournament in program history.

• This marks the first time the Utes have received back-to-back NCAA Tournament berths since 2008 and 2009.

• The highest Utah had been seeded in the NCAA Tournament prior to this year was No. 5 in 1982-83, 1996-97, 2000-01, 2005-06.

• Utah's 103 points against Gardner-Webb were the most points scored in an NCAA Tournament game by the Utes.

• Alissa Pili's 33 points against Gardner-Webb is the second highest scored by a Ute in an NCAA Tournament game. Kim Webb dropped 35 in 2003 against DePaul.

• No Utah player has scored 28 or more points in consecutive NCAA tournament games before Pili did so, in the first and second rounds. Her 61 points in the two games are the most by a Utah player in a two-game stretch of NCAA tournament games.

• The last time Utah has won two NCAA Tournament games was 2005-06.

• This is the third time Utah has made a Sweet 16 appearance and the first time since 2005-06 (Elite Eight).

WRAP UP

• Utah claimed its first Pac-12 regular season title by taking down No. 3 Stanford 84-78 on Feb. 25, 2023.

• Pili was named Pac-12 Player of the Year, the first Ute to earn the honor.

• Head Coach Lynne Roberts was named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year, a feat no other coach has accomplished in school history.

• The Utes won 27 or more games for just the fourth time in program history, and made their third trip to the Sweet 16. The others came in 2000-01 and 2005-06 (Elite Eight).

•Utah finished the season with a record of 27-5, tying for the second-most wins in a season in program history (28-4 in 200-01; 27-5 in 2007-08; 27-7 in 2005-06).

• First time Utah has had an undefeated home record in the Pac-12 Era (16-0).

• Then-No. 3 Stanford is the highest ranked team Utah has beaten in school history.

• Utah posted a 6-4 record over Top 25 ranked teams this season.

• Utah was ranked for 13 consecutive weeks in the AP Top 10 and was ranked in the AP Poll 19 consecutive weeks, breaking the program record of nine weeks in a row set in 2001 and the most total weeks ranked in the same season.

• Utah was ranked No. 3 in the AP Poll during the week of March 1, which is the highest ranking in school history.

• Utah's 27-5 overall record on the season is its best through 32 games since 2000-01, when the Utes went 28-3.

• Utah's 14-0 start was the second-best in program history (16-0 in 1997-98) and tied for the fourth-best start by any program in Pac-12 history. It's the best start for Utah in the Pac-12 Era.

• Utah ended the season the nation's No. 4 scoring team and ranked in the top 10 nationally in five major statistical categories:

o No. 4 field-goal percentage (48.4)

o No. 8 scoring margin (+16.8)

o No. 4 in scoring (82.8)

o No. 6 in assists per game (18.3)

o No. 5 in free throws per game (16.5)

• Three Utes averaged in double-figure scoring to pace a balanced team attack: Alissa Pili (20.7), Gianna Kneepkens (15.3) and Jenna Johnson (11.9).

• Junior forward Alissa Pili, was named to the USBWA and AP All-American Second Team. She is the only Ute in history to earn Second Team All-American.

• On Feb. 25 in the 84-78 victory over Stanford, Utah drew a crowd surpassing 9,500 fans for an attendance high during the Pac-12 Era.

    • Utah hit 100 or more points five times this season, the most 100 point games in a single season it Utes' history. Two of the five triple digit numbers were record setters with the 124-76 win over Oklahoma being the most points scored in a game and the 103-77 win over Gardner-Webb being the most points scored in an NCAA tournament game.

AN ODE TO PILI
Transfer forward Alissa Pili made an immediate impact for the Utes since transferring from USC. She earned Utah's first outright All-America Honor from the WBCA. She is the first Ute to earn Second-Team All-America from both AP and the USBWA. She picked up the Utes first Pac-12 Player of the Year.
    • During her debut season as a Ute, she appeared in 31 of 32 games and started in 30. She averaged 20.7 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 2.2 assists per game.
    •    Pili scored 30 or more points twice this season including a career-high 33 points against Gardner-Webb in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament. She scored 20 or more points 18 times.
    •    She amassed 643 total points this season, second most points in a single season by an individual in school history, adding to her career total of 1,368.
    •    Pili earned Pac-12 Player of the Week twice.
    •    She shot .590 percent from the field, .426 from the three and .797 from the free throw line. She totaled 173 rebounds including 55 offensive.
    •    Pili led the Pac-12 in field goal percentage, made field goals, total points and points per game.
    •    She had a streak of scoring 20 or more points in seven consecutive games and recorded high games of 33, 30, 28 (twice), 27 (twice) and 25.
    •   Pili earned WBCA All-America honors, Second Team All-American on both the AP and USBWA All-American lists. No other Utah player has earned outright WBCA honors or AP and USWBA Second-Team honors.
    •   Pili was named to several watch lists throughout the course of the season. She was on the Wooden Award Late Season Top 20 Watch List, for the outstanding player in women's college basketball. Pili waws named a Naismith Trophy semifinalist. Pili added an Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Midseason Watch List recognition and a Katrina McClain Midseason Top 20.
    •  Pili is shooting 59.0 percent from the floor for the season, the 14th-best mark in the nation. In seven games this season, Pili shot over 70 percent from the floor, including a 12-of-16 effort (75%) in just 16:15 of playing time at Mississippi Valley State (12/1). Her top game (85.7; 12-14) came in her first contest with the Utes, Nov. 7 vs. Idaho.
    •   Pili, lead the Utes in scoring (20.7; 14th NCAA), scored 25 or more points in three consecutive games (28, 28, 25) from Dec. 1-14, the first Ute to do so since 2009-10 (Kalee Whipple: 25, 25, 28 on 12/19/09, 12/22/09 and 1/2/10)
    • Her back-to-back 28-point games (12/1 & 12/10) were the first with 28+ in consecutive outings since 2014 (Michelle Plouffe, 31 each vs. WSU & UW, Feb. 14 & 16). She's the first Ute to do so in two road games since at least 1999-2000.
    • Pili's game-high 27 points (12-of-14) in the season-opener vs. Idaho were the sixth-most in a first game with her team by a Pac-12 player since 1999-00.

ROBERTS NAMED PAC-12 COACH OF THE YEAR
Head Coach Lynne Roberts was named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year in both the coaches and media awards She became the first coach ever to earn this honor.
    •    Roberts finished her eighth season at the helm of the Utes and led Utah to its first ever Pac-12 regular season title.
    •    She was named as a Naismith Award Coach of the Year Top 4 Finalist.
    •    She led the Utes to a 27-5 overall record and a 15-3 record in Pac-12 action.
    •    Helped the Utes to it's first Sweet 16 appearance in the Pac-12 Era and third ever in program history.
    •    Led Utah to the highest AP rankings in school history as the Utes breached the top five twice during the 2022-23 season with rankings at No. 3 and No. 4. Utah was also ranked in the Top 10 for 12 consecutive weeks.

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