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Mar 14th, 2008

Ute basketball: Utes' seeding will take hit, but not a big one

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LAS VEGAS - Pigs did not fly. Hell did not freeze over. The world did not spin off its axis.
In the aftermath, it really was just one loss - albeit a very bad one.
The 12th-ranked Utah women are sure to suffer a hit in their NCAA Tournament seeding after being upset by ninth-seeded Colorado State 60-52 in the Mountain West Conference tournament opener Wednesday.
But the Utes (27-4) might not fall that far. In his bracket projections on ESPN.com, Charlie Creme only dropped them from a No. 3 to a No. 4 seed.
“Utah’s season as a whole still stands pretty strong, and the committee has stated that this is a whole-season evaluation,” Creme said. “What if the upset had happened on January 27? Based on what the committee says, it shouldn’t have more impact than that would have had.”
It was the extreme disparity of the teams that made the loss so shocking.
Utah had won 22 straight games, gone undefeated in the conference regular season (16-0) and boasted an RPI of No. 20.
Colorado State (4-27) entered the tournament on a 20-game losing streak, hadn’t beaten a conference team until UNLV in the play-in game, and ranked 312 out of 338 teams in the RPI.

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10 Responses to “Ute basketball: Utes' seeding will take hit, but not a big one”

  1. # Condoleezza on 16 Mar 2008 at 6:40 pm

    Anyone that follows the orders to kill civilians has already lost.

  2. # Jemma on 16 Mar 2008 at 7:30 pm

    If they go down, it would be like a 8.5 earthquake and a 200 ft. tital wave combined, all of Wall St. would go down with them and the American people would wake up and be mad for a change. Maybe even mad enough to go looking for heads to roll. But we are not out of the woods yet and the storms are still raging.

  3. # Stephania on 16 Mar 2008 at 8:21 pm

    Don’t let that stop you.

  4. # Benjamin on 16 Mar 2008 at 9:11 pm

    If Bush, Cheney, or Blair had actually fought in the war, I might be able to respect them a little.

  5. # Kimberley on 16 Mar 2008 at 10:02 pm

    I think it should be legal to shoot officers who tell soldiers under their command to do this (and presidents,… for that matter).

  6. # Codie on 16 Mar 2008 at 10:52 pm

    He still thinks the Corporate Media isn’t corrupt.Ahhh, those were the days…

  7. # Anima on 16 Mar 2008 at 11:43 pm

    You were my favorite turd.

  8. # Whitney on 17 Mar 2008 at 12:34 am

    You sure about that?http://uncensored.co.nz/2008/02/04/israeli-soldiers-passing-out-candy-to-the-kids/

  9. # Becca on 17 Mar 2008 at 1:24 am

    Some people are created more equal than others.