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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Thursday, January 31, 2013 7 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Wicijowski's injury to shift Utes' lineup Michael Smith STAFF WRITER The Utes confirmed Tuesday that forward Taryn Wicijowski tore the meniscus in her right knee last Friday during the team's loss to Stanford. She will miss at least the next two games against USC r gl and UCLA. Wicijowski, who made the All Pac-12 team last season, fell to the ground after going for a layup against the Cardinal. She stayed on the ground for several minutes before she was helped off the court. She sat on the bench the rest of the game with her knee wrapped and didn't play in Sunday's loss at Cal. When the team returned to Salt Lake City on Monday, Wicijowski underwent an MRI and the test revealed the tear. Wicijowski underwent surgery Tuesday afternoon and could be out significantly longer than this weekend depending on how her rehabilitation goes. If there is excessive swelling, the team fears she could be out for an extended period of time. It's the same knee in which she tore her ACL during the 2010 sea- BULLINGER Continued from page 6 universities with tremendous bills. Even if Utah basketball is a revenue-producer, which is unlikely based on the emptiness of the Huntsman Center on game day, that means revenue from two programs at Utah have to pay the bills for son. That injury forced her to miss the rest of the year. The team said Wicijowski won't be available for comment until after she is healthy again and has rejoined the team. Wicijowski's injury is a huge blow to the Utes, who have st ug ed for more than a month and only have one win in conference play. Head coach Anthony Levrets was surprised by the severity of her injury and said he originally thought Wicijowski hurt her shoulder because there was no contact on the play. He said he has had a couple of sleepless nights deciding how to approach the next two games knowing the Utes will be without their star player when they travel to Los Angeles this weekend. Utah will stick with the starting lineup it used without Wicijowski last Sunday — Rachel Messer will move back into a starting role and be joined by Michelle Plouffe, Dani Rodriguez, Iwalani Rodrigues and Paige Crozon. "Everybody's going to play," Levrets said. "We're going to use all of our parts and figure out how to use the most out of everybody." The lineup is the best the Utes have to offer, but it's incredibly small. Only two of Utah's starters will be above 6 feet tall and the 6-foot-1 Crozon is two inches shorter than Wicijowski. Because Wicijowski is Utah's main post player, the Utes will need to find a way to be more than just an outside shooting team. They don't shoot a high enough percentage to count on making a majority of their shots and will need to utilize their only remaining big, Michelle Plouffe, down low. If they can get Plouffe in a one-on-one situation, she can use her 6-foot-4 frame to drive to the bucket and either get a layup or draw a foul. There's no doubt the Utes will be at a disadvantage with Wicijowski out. "[Wicijowski] is a very important part of our team in many ways," Levrets said. "Not just shooting and rebounding the ball, but passing and directing traffic on both ends of the floor. We're going to miss her." 15 more. Start paying football and men's basketball players, and the budget for other sports plummets. Sure, the budget could be balanced through cuts to the football and basketball, but it's not wise to stop feeding the cash cow. Therefore, cuts would likely come from lowlevel sports. Depending on how much universities have to pay players, especially the 85-man football roster, these cuts could be quite significant. Utah's new softball stadium probably would have never left the drawing board. And how about scholarships? Nonrevenue athletes already receive partial scholarships, so dwindling that fund could m.smith@ chronicle.utah.edu Twitter: @smithmichael8 —- !ter'voiN■7 MADELINE SMITH/The Daily Utah Chronicle Forward Taryn Wicijowski suffered a torn meniscus in her right knee and will miss at least the next two games. have adverse effects. One could make the argument that every athlete should be paid, but that would mean coaches would have to sacrifice pay, and games would be played in dilapidated stadiums. It's no secret that football and basketball players are money-making mules for colleges and the NCAA. Their jerseys are sold in stores and their games are broadcast on television, yet they receive none of the cut. This is unjust treatment by the NCAA, but we can't forget that college athletics go deeper than football and basketball. In a perfect world, universities would secede from the NCAA and start their own for-profit athletic leagues. Of course, that would likely mean the evaporation of volleyball, swimming and tennis for good. Is paying football players for supporting an entire department worth losing tennis players? 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