The Utah women’s basketball team was looking forward to Super Bowl Sunday, but perhaps for a different reason than the rest of the country.
Less than 40 hours after suffering a demoralizing loss to up-and-coming Oregon State in a Pac-12 Conference game, the Utes took on Oregon. This time, there were a lot more happy faces at the Jon M. Huntsman Center.
Jenna Johnson scored 20 points, Maty Wilke had 17 and Alissa Pili 16 as the Utes blew past the Ducks 70-48.
While it was the seventh win in the last nine games for coach Lynne Roberts’s team, she was especially pleased the Utes regained their footing after a brief stumble.
“Proud of how the team bounced back,” she said. “It took about 20 minutes to get with the flow. We may not be the biggest team, but we’re big on heart.”
