From: ewstroup@cc.utah.edu (ERIC W. STROUP)
Subject: Utah State whips struggling Utah
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Date: 23 Dec 1992 11:34 MST  


The Utah State Aggies used some hot shooting, and grat hustle to teach the
Utah Utes a basketball lesson.  OUCHHHHH!!!

Utah State 85	Utah 75
(box score at end)

The Utes looked totally asleep in the first half of this game, and partially
into the second half.  Josh Grant has been asleep for about a month now.
The Aggies put the game away in the first half using 63% shooting (7 layups).
The Utes got into foul trouble in the first half with Grant, Wilson, Cain, and
Connoly all with 2 fouls and Block with 3.  The Aggies were lead by their
all-Utah (if their was an all-Utah team) point guard Jay Goodman.  Goodman 
had 8 assists and no turnovers in the first half.  The Aggies led by 15 at one
point in the first half, but the Utes scrapped back to 8 by intermission.
Just prior to the break Utah had a line-up that had Phil Dixon, Connoly,
Wilson, Sotom and Rydalch (I think).  The tallest of those being 6'5".
This squad played inspired hoop for about 5-10 mins.
	The second half saw much of the same as the first.  The Utes got into
more foul trouble, Grant was still was invisible, and Utah State continued
top play good basketball.  The Utes got a break when Goodman picked up his
fourth foul.  When he sat down the Utes went on a 16-4 run. Putting the
Utes to within 2 points of the Aggies.  At that point Goodman entered the 
game again and finished off the Utes.  Goodman ended up with 11 assists 5 
steals and 13 points, while Josh Grant had 6 points and 5 turnovers. The Utes
only shot 44% for the game, but if you take out Cain and Dixon, they were 29%.
The Aggies were hot - 60% for the game.  This is against a Utah team that 
prides itself in defense.  

	**The Utes were outplayed.

COMMENTS:

**I never said Utah was a good team****

Larry "So this is what a basketball is" Cain - Larry played his best game of
the year.  His fourth foul seemed to ignite him.  He huslted, blocked out, and
posted up very well.  He is by no means good at any of this, but he is really
trying hard.  I was very pleased with his effort.

Josh "I took a bottle of Nitol" Grant - Totally asleep.  When is he going to 
show up for the game?  You could see it against Texas and Arizona.  In the 
Texas game almost all of his points were from the outside and he didn't seem
very interested in the game.  Now its become an epidemic.  I think he should
be benched for a little bit to get his wits together.

Phil "I'm from Jamaica" Dixon - Phil is playing good ball right now.  Let's
hope he can keep it up.  Phil has a history of playing well in the first half
and vanishing in the second.  LAst night he played a much better total game.

Byron Wilson - Byron spent too much time on the bench inthe first half due
to his foul trouble and ended up not being ever able to get in the game.  
Byron needs playing time to get a rythm, otherwise he's useless.

Jimmy Soto - had a tough time against Goodman.  Jimmy also had a poor shooting
night.  His shot selection was poor.  Jimmy didn't have a single steal either.

Darroll Wright - Darroll mad the mistakes of a young player.  He didn't let 
the game come to him.  He tried to force too many bad shot and as a result 
spent some time on the bench

Mark Rydalch - pretty much a non factor in the game.

Tony Block - played hard, but needs to get more offensive production.  Tony
only had 1 rebound.

Jeff Connolly - for a walk-on this kid has alot of guts.  He hustles, throws
his body on the floor, doesn't shy away from tough defensive assignments, etc.
Josh could take some attitude lessons from Jeff.


UTAH STATE	FG	FT	R	A	PF	TP
Cotten		0-7	3-5	3	1	4	3
Goodman		3-3	6-8	4	11	4	13
Rose		3-5	3-5	1	3	4	10
Patterson	4-6	0-0	0	4	1	9
Hay		10-15	6-9	6	0	5	26
J.Wickizer	3-4	0-0	3	0	2	6
DaSilva		0-1	1-2	1	0	0	1
N.Wickizer	5-6	7-10	6	1	2	17
		28-47	26-39	29	20	22	85

UTAH
Wilson		0-1	5-6	3	1	3	5
Block		1-2	4-4	1	2	4	6
Dixon		7-10	4-4	3	4	4	21
Cain		7-11	2-2	5	0	4	16
Connolly	0-0	0-1	0	0	2	0
Soto		4-11	9-11	1	7	4	18
Rydalch		0-3	0-0	1	0	2	0
Wright		1-3	0-0	0	0	0	3
Grant		2-8	2-2	7	0	4	6
		22-49	36-30	28	14	27	75 

Halftime - Utah State 40, Utah 38
Shooting Percentages - FG: Utah 44.9%, Utah State 59.6%
		       FT: Utah 86.7%, Utah State 66.7%
Three point shooting - Utah 5-16 (31.3%) (Wright 1-2, Soto 1-6, Dixon 3-6)
		       Utah State 3-6 (50%) (Goodman 1-1, Rose 1-3, 
		  	Patterson 1-2)
Steals		     - Utah 6 
	    	     - Utah State 7 (Goodman 5)
Blocks		     - Utah 1
		     - Utah State 3




-Eric
ewstroup@cc.utah.edu